• education,  empowerment,  inclusion,  media literacy,  museums,  technology

    Participatory Video Facebook group

    George Metaxiotis sent me an invite from Greece today to join the PV:RF Participatory Video Facebook group. It’s described as “a networking forum for anyone involved in participatory video research – especially community based research.” So I wanted to share the link with you here: http://tr.im/FcCq The group’s only three months old but it already looks like a good way to link up with PV projects around the world. E.g. Chris Blythe posted a wall message about his ‘Inspired Productions’ in New Zealand/Aotearoa: “We’re developing our work to include drama and music media. Current project is supporting refugee youth from Burma and Bhutan to produce content for our national museum, Te…

  • empowerment,  inclusion,  media literacy

    Free presentation: Sustaining and Developing Island Communities

    Wed 2 Dec 09, 1 pm at the Tramsheds Building, Glyntaff Campus, University of Glamorgan, Treforest, Mid Glamorgan. Prof Do Coyle of the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, presents ‘Sustaining and Developing Island Communities: Extreme Measures for Extreme Communities’. This presentation is about ‘extreme’ communities where the digital infrastructure is lacking.  Prof Dyle will look at different kinds of community building in isolated places to enable connection and be connected. He’ll also tell the story of Telling Tales and I-Scape. This is a free session but attendeees need to reserve their place by emailing storytelling@glam.ac.uk This is the first of the University of Glamorgan’s George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling Communities…

  • digital storytelling,  empowerment,  inclusion,  media literacy

    Contributors or Collaborators?

    For 15+ years, Mandy Rose has been a champion for the individual as author/publisher. Tomorrow night, she delivers an RTS (Royal Television Society) talk called Contributors or Collaborators  . This is timely as the web’s shift from publication/communication to collaboration/social interactivity lends itself to collaboration in documentary forms. Mandy commissions multi-platform productions at BBC Wales and is researching the role of the producer / curator in collaborative documentary at the Faculty of Creative Arts at the University of the West of England. I worked with Mandy when she was editor of New Media, BBC Cymru Wales, and  I’ve learned such a lot by working with her. This was such an exciting time as she commissioned…

  • digital storytelling,  empowerment,  inclusion

    Coromandel Digital Stories, New Zealand

    “It excites me that I can be part of this new age.  Words, pictures and music if anything can lift the sprite and engender enthusiasm” – Joan van Oosterom (87) More than 70 Digital Stories have been produced since the project started in January 2008 by the Coromandel Community Digital Storytelling Project. It’s an initiative to record, preserve, and share the history and stories of the Coromandel community using Digital Storytelling. It’s all about creating lasting impressions. Workshop equipment includes: 6 shuttle computers (20x20x30cm) Adobe Premiere Elements software Headphones Cano Scan 8800F scanner (scans slides and negatives as well as photographs and documents) Printer Projector & speakers Sound recording equipment Discovered via…