Details have just been posted for the third Digital Storytelling Festival – DS3 – at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre in West Wales. 5/6th June 2008 This is the main festival in the UK and it’s well worth booking. It’s cheap too. I’ll be there along with many of my former BBC colleagues from Capture Wales. […]
Archives for April 2008
Jason Ohler's new book
April 22, 2008 by
Jason Ohler : Education and Technology :: Art, Storytelling, Education and Technology Art, Storytelling, Technology and Education Resources for educators, parents, innovators Announcement: Jasons new book about digital storytelling and new media narrative in education – Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: New Media Pathways to Literacy, Learning and Creativity, is now available for advance purchase: […]
Aperture – Aperture BorderFX
April 22, 2008 by
Apple – Downloads – Aperture – Aperture BorderFX An Aperture export plug-in that allows you to add borders to images as you export them. If you are an Aperture user this free plugin is just brilliant. Add borders, text, and watermarks with a wide range of options. How did I live without it?
Training Trainers Digital Storytelling Workshop – New dates
April 21, 2008 by
I am planning the next workshop for trainers who want to run their own digital storytelling projects It will be held at a retreat and conference centre near Huddersfield in West Yorkshire. It’s beautifully situated in the Yorkshire Pennines and just off the M62 so access is easy. The provisional dates are June 17th – […]
Big birds still worry me
April 17, 2008 by
Another true story inspired by an object in the Magic Story Bag Once a year we used to walk from school to Debden village church for a special service. On the way we passed a lake where a few swans swam. The teacher, Mrs Firth, told us not to annoy the swans because they might […]
Aberth Digital Storytelling
April 14, 2008 by
Aberth Digital Storytelling — digital storytelling, participatory media and easing access to mass media This is the blog of Gareth Morlais. Gareth was the guy who showed me my first Digital Story back in 2001. It was made in one of the pilot workshops of the BBC Capture Wales project, which has sadly just closed […]
Something borrowed, something green …
April 14, 2008 by
This story was inspired by a car key fob from the magic story bag I borrowed a hundred pounds from my grandma to buy my first car. I don’t know why she was so willing to lend it to me. Perhaps, to her, it wasn’t a lot of money. For me it was a fortune […]
Family clears home at cliff site
April 12, 2008 by
BBC North Yorkshire | Family clears home at cliff site A second family has had to move belongings from their home which is teetering on the edge of a landslip at Cayton Bay in North Yorkshire. Thousands of tonnes of earth have slipped away in front of a number of homes leaving them on a […]
International Day for Sharing Life Stories – May 16, 2008
April 11, 2008 by
International Day for Sharing Life Stories – May 16, 2008 We invite you and/or your organization to endorse our joint call for Listen – International Day for Sharing Life Stories, on May 16th 2008. The day will be an opportunity for people around the world to gather in community halls, classrooms, public parks, theaters, auditoriums, […]
