Peace… break it or keep it…

digistories will be at Riding Lights Summer Theatre School again this year with another Tall Stories course. The theme this year is Peace … break it or keep it … The Summer School is a great and varied week. As well as creating digital stories, you will be involved in theatre production and exploring issues around the […]

Judges of Character

This is the theme for the Riding Lights Summer Theatre School this year. I will again be delivering a course called Tall Stories. You'll learn how use a personal narrative to create a digital performance that will be presented to an audience by the end of the week. We will explore storytelling, digital media, writing […]

Last chance to book for DS8 Digital Storytelling Festival

Chapter Arts, Cardiff – Friday 14th June Just received this email from Dan Taylor in Cardiff. There are only a few days to go before the DS8 Digital Storytelling Festival in Cardiff and the booking site will be closing on Thursday, giving you only 3 days to book your place. With a fully international programme […]

Bring DS8 alive with your energy, insight and experience

Here’s a message from Karen Lewis – the organiser of the Digital Storytelling Festival in Cardiff in June We are looking for speakers or facilitators to run sessions for us at this year’s Digital Storytelling festival – DS8. It will be held in Cardiff at Chapter Arts Centre on Friday 14th June. If you have […]

Armed Forces Workshops – FAQ

The aim of these workshops is to give participants the skills to make a recording of their story in their own voice. The half day workshops begin with ice breakers, fun games with words, the use of memory prompts and simple writing exercises. No previous experience is needed. The workshop is open to people of all […]

Time Running Out – Book now for DS7

It will soon be time for the UK’s only Digital Storytelling Festival, DS7. Bookings are going well and this is the last week to send in your form. This year it is hosted by the University of Glamorgan’s George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling and will be held at Chapter Arts in Cardiff on Thursday 7th June 2012. Book your place […]

What is Digital Storytelling?

Perhaps a strange question to be asking after all these years of Digital Storytelling, but there are still many who don’t know and many more who think they know but don’t. It’s also true that there are any number of definitions of digital storytelling

See and Hear

  I appear in two new features this week. At DS6 Gareth Morlais recorded an interview with me about the potential of digital storytelling on the iPad. He makes some very generous comments about me during this feature, but I hope you find the content about creating digital stories useful. It is the first of his […]

Past Caring

Not a reference to a bout of indifference but the title of a workshop project with folk.us in Devon where people who are carers tell their story, usually after the person they have cared for has died.

iMovie ’11 – a worthy successor to iMovieHD

I have fully tested the latest version of iMovie and I am confident that it can be used to create digital stories.