What is Digital Storytelling?

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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

Bridges Burned – Upgrade Complete

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As I complete the upgrade on my last MacBook today I realise that In will probably never run a digital storytelling workshop again using iMovieHD – my bridges have been burned

iMovie ’11 – a worthy successor to iMovieHD

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

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Singapore Keynote

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I was invited to deliver the keynote address to the 2nd Asian Digital Storytelling Congress in Singapore on Sept 4th 2010.
This is the text of my presentation

Singapore and the future of digital storytelling

Anticipating the 2nd Asian Digital Storytelling Congress

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 [...]

iMovie 8 Madness

I have started to re evaluate iMovie 8 (part of iLife 09) as a tool for digital storytelling. I was beginning to warm to it until I began some tests to nail down it’s behaviour with still images. Now it’s driving me to distraction – it’s so inconsistent. So my write up will take a [...]

"iMovie" or "Photo to Movie"?

I’ve been evaluating Photo to Movie from LQ Graphics as a tool for digital storytelling. My favourite application is iMovie HD. It’s not perfect but better the devil you know – and I know iMovie pretty well now and still discover tricks that make me think “how clever”. When Apple rewrote iMovie for iLife 08 it [...]

Warming to iMovie '09

I have just compiled a section of my tutorial story “Affected for Life” using iMovie ’09. I’m warming to it. I began this exercise because the free download of iMovie HD is no longer available from the Apple site and attempts to install it on a new MacBook brings up an error message because iMovie [...]