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…
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RTS Innovation Awards 2009
BBC iPlayer won the main Judges’ Award at last night’s RTS Innovation Awards. I was there with Karen Lewis because BBC Digital Storytelling had been nominated in the user generated content category along with Channel 4’s Landshare and The Sex Experience. Landshare won in this category. It was great to see Karen Lewis for the first time since DS4. Since leaving the BBC, she’s set up StoryWorks at the University of Glamorgan and doing some really exciting work with Communities 2.0 and with people who have cancer at Velindre Hospital, Cardiff, and much more. At the RTS, the most interesting award from the point of view of participatory media was…
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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…
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4iP Channel 4 commissioners in Cardiff
Digital storytellers can pitch tomorrow (16 October) to Channel 4 TV’s 4iP commissioners. It’s an “opportunity to hear and meet Digital Commissioners from the 4iP, Education and Cross Platform teams and learn about plans for 2010.” Other UK dates and submission guidelines are here. Thanks to Rhodri Nwdls for letting me know about this event.
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Bridging the digital divide in Wales – Communities 2.0 hiring director
Communities 2.0 is hiring a director (£41-44k ) to help bridge the digital divide by tackling digital exclusion in convergence areas of Wales. Communities 2.0 will also try to mitigate some of the social inequalities derived from low incomes, poor health, limited skills or disabilities. Here’s the text of the job ad with thanks to Karen Lewis who sent it to me: ————————- Employer: Wales Co-operative Centre Posted: 15 Sep 2009 Location: South East Wales Industry: Senior Executive – Third Sector Contract: Permanent, subject to continued funding Hours: Full Time Salary: £41,378 – £44,917 The Wales Co-operative Centre seeks to employ a dynamic individual to lead the Communities 2.0…
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Digital Stories Curator job
University of Glamorgan is hiring a Knowledge Catalyst Employee to help ‘create a raft of digital stories for use in the context of the new Museum of Cardiff the Cardiff Story’. Closing date 30 July 2009. Only people who graduated in the last four years are apparently elligible. Here’s the text of the job ad as sent in the email I just received: “Application details, can be found at: www.glam.ac.uk/jobs under ‘knowledge catalyst employee’ Knowledge Catalyst Employee Digital Stories Curator 1 year contract, c.£19,000 Deadline: 30 July 2009 Further details available from: http://www.glam.ac.uk/jobsThis post is required to fulfill the conditions of an award by AHRC to support a Knowledge Catalyst research…
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Moving image archive meets personal story
Here’s more about how we worked with people who had stories to tell about what the heritage of the Rhondda Valleys in Wales means to them in Valleys Kids’ Rhondda Lives project. This post follows a question from Cheryl Colan: “…Did the individual storytellers work with and direct the video editor? If they spent only 2 hours doing so, I imagine the editor did a reasonable amount of preparatory work, getting clips to choose from lined up, prior to this work session?…” There were many days of preparatory work in researching, finding, selecting, rights-clearing, digitising, etc. the clips. Lona Wharton and Gareth Morris did this at the BBC and Dafydd…
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Hyperlocal freelancing opportunities
$14,000 per annum is one local blogger’s estimate of how much he’ll earn in the coming year by covering local stories. Seattle blogger Justin Carder does the math(s) on this page. Justin is one of the speakers at the free Portland Oregon Digital Journalism Camp – Saturday, August 1 at The Oregonian, 1320 SW Broadway, Portland, Oregon 97201.
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The ideal break-out space for your digital storytelling workshop
People will be working intensively together, maybe over a longish period. This can become quite claustrophobic if there are no break-out spaces available. This space could just be a cafeteria, a foyer with seats or even an outside sitting area. It just needs to be somewhere for people to wander if they need some time alone or to take a break from the digital storytelling production. This has been the fourth and final episode in a mini-series 🙂 of articles on www.aberth.com/blog about the ideal spaces for your digital storytelling workshop.
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The ideal voice recording room for your digital storytelling workshop
This room needs to be very quiet indeed. Switch off any noisy lights, air conditioning, fans, clocks, computers, etc. The fewer echoes in the room the better; safe clutter is good. The voice-recording room needs to be available throughout the production workshop. It can be small – just big enough to accommodate three people, recording equipment and microphone. May need to have power points, even if only to re-charge batteries / portable voice recorders. This is the third in a mini-series of four articles on www.aberth.com/blog about the ideal spaces for your digital storytelling workshop. Written and first published by Gareth Morlais on 5 July 2009