Telling stories of Llanberis slate and Hollywood features, more than a hundred digital storytellers gathered for the annual digital storytelling festival in Aberystwyth. Here’s my illustrated story of the day… L to R: Annette Mees, Dai Evans (holding the new-technology version of a teaspoon) and Bonnie Shaw. DS4 – 17 June 2009, Aberystwyth Arts Centre Huw Davies showed intergenerational stories based around old silent colour footage of farming in north-east Wales. And announced he’s secured £200k funding for a feature film mixing old and new footage, with the new being shot by 150 especially-trained film-makers/digital storytellers in Rhyl. Annette Mees described how playing Big Ball Bingo and listening to community-members’…
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Mrs Smoke shares 35 refreshing digital storytelling links
What a great Desert Island Digital Storytelling links list on the Making Teachers Nerdy Blog today. The sections on Web 2.0 and Storyboarding are especially refreshing. Mrs Smoke is Dyane Smokorowski: a Technology Instructional Coach and Integrationist for the Andover Schools and an Intel US Senior Trainer in Andover, KS, USA. You can follow her on Twitter via http://twitter.com/Mrs_Smoke. I’ve been commentating on digital storytelling on Twitter for a few weeks now using the username @digitalst. Feel free to follow me there, even if you don’t know me personally. I’ve learned a lot about digital storytelling around the world from the Twitter digital storytelling community, all all credit to them…
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The future of digital storytelling in public spaces
This post is a response to a question asked on Museum 3.0 group about: “the future of digital storytelling in regards to broader social networking tools” by Angelina Russo, an Associate Professor at Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. As this question’s related to museum of the future, I’ll begin with an editorial approach to applications of digital storytelling in museums, libraries, galleries and other public spaces before addressing technical issues. The teaching of the activity of digital storytelling in public spaces can form part of a museum’s educational program where: people learn about history, area, objects, etc. the learning spans curriculum areas media literacy is improved citizens get their voice ‘exhibited’…
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Three digital storytelling ideas for museums
If you work in a museum, library or archive and you’re looking for digital storytelling inspiration, here are links to three ideas in this blog: Archive Meets Storytelling – A step-by-step set of instructions on how to run a workshop which delivers short videos mixing considered but unscripted personal reminiscence with existing archive footage. What a Museum is – Pondering on museum paradigms: “Living-memory sections of museums are more to do with memories than artefacts. So museum managers can feel free to move away from traditional perceptions of what it is they’re doing. That’s when they’ll feel it’s OK to instruct their staff to spend less time on objects and…
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Managable digital storytelling for museums
How can museums resource this: recording and sharing visitors’ interpretations and stories about its artefacts? One of the challenges around publishing personal stories made by lots of people is keeping on top of the ethical issues around the right to portray others in public. This will be especially true of teachers and also of public organisations like museums, libraries and educational courses. Recording, tracking and demonstrating that there’s proof that individuals are happy for you to show their work is one thing; getting second signoff by a parent/guardian in the case of stories by children, young people and vulnerable people is quite another. From my experience in BBC production, it’s…
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Blogfolios for teachers
Students benefit from maintaining online multimedia portfolios of their work – blogfolios – according to Jason Ohler, author of the book ‘Digital Storytelling in the Classroom’: “As part of the technology infusion coursework, each student creates a ‘blogfolio’ that serves as both a work repository and reflection venue throughout the year. The work they create includes digital stories, documentaries, slide presentations, diagrams and artwork, podcasts, screen casts, lesson plans, units of instruction and essays. A typical blogfolio entry consists of a reflective text piece, which includes links to media they have created for an assignment that they have posted on the web using services such as YouTube, SlideShare and Google…
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How to tell a story using five 5-second clips
Here’s an example from Stockholm of a visual narrative (no voice) made by editing together five very short clips. With this previous post in mind, it’s just good to see experiments like this.
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DS4 speakers announced
Just announced: DS4’s programme looks great with Huw Davies (BBC Capture Wales), Annette Mees (Coney’s Shoreditch Ball Park), Bonnie Shaw (Snap-Shot-Storytelling) and fascinating breakouts. The new DS4 website is live: http://www.aberystwythartscentre.co.uk/DS4/ and you can book online for £14.50.
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DS4 call for stories
If you or your organisation would like screen-space to show digital stories – or to have your own stand – at DS4, Sophie Bennett of Aberystwyth Arts Centre can help. Her contact details are sob at aber dot ac dot uk Tel. 01970 622338. DS4 takes place in Aberystwyth on 17th June 2009.
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Flip videoblogging tips video
Verdi’s made this concise, useful training video about using consumer camcorders for the citizen journalism end of the video blogging spectrum at Freevlog.