Archives for 2010

XO based digital storytelling

How do you give schoolchildren the tools to create digital stories on a $100 computer? You write the software yourself as they have in Uruguay.

The Legacy of Digital Storytelling

Museums archive things for the rest of us – and so it is with digital stories made in the North East’s Culture Shock! project. But what about the investment in equipment and skills – can we give a digital storytelling project a legacy too?

Good day at the Festival

A busy, inspiring and valuable day at the fifth Cymru Digital Storytelling Festival in Aberystwyth

The next International Digital Storytelling Conference

Just announced at DS5. The next International Storytelling Conference is in Norway and called Create-Share-Listen http://j.mp/dAzFK6

Thanks for the lift to #DS5, Esko

I was still making up my mind – walk or taxi? Then a question from a stranger led to a lift to DS5

Say Hello at DS5

Drop by and say Hello at the digistories trade table at the Digital Storytelling Festival in Aberystwyth. This year we’re on the top floor of the Arts Centre on the University Campus.

Time for a change

It’s five years since I set up digistories and began holding workshop events to give people skills in digital storytelling. Now I feel it right to trim the sails and concentrate my business on Training Trainers.

There’s still time to book for DS5

I received this email a few days ago from Esko Reinikainen about the Digital Storytelling Festival in Aberystwyth next week. If you haven’t yet booked – there’s still time, but not a lot of it. I’ll be there and would love to see you there too. Look out for the digistories trade stand. Dear Digital Storytelling […]

Recent Workshops

The Truth About Youth My second project with Diversity Hub in Leicester, gave Young People the skills to say what they would really like to say to adults. The project was completed with a launch party at BBC Radio Leicester in June 2010. It was a lively series of four workshops as young people from […]

The only CDS Open Standard Workshop this year in Europe

I received this email from Joe Lambert of the Center for Digital Storytelling in California. He’s in the UK for DS5 in Aberystwyth. While he’s here he running a workshop in London and he has some places to fill. Folks,This is a reminder, we will be offering the only CDS Open Standard Workshop this year […]