This story was inspired by a battery from the magic story bag I loved electricity. Fascinated by the way a bulb lit, a motor turned, a radio played music and how a battery stored power. My bedroom was littered with wires, bulbholders, battery clips and bits of old radios. I suppose I was about 14 […]
Archives for April 2008
Writing lives/teaching lives
April 10, 2008 by
I found this on the writing lives/teaching lives blog: Digital Storytelling « writing lives/teaching lives When I began to read about digital storytelling, I had expected it to be interesting, but for some reason, I had not expected that the writing process was used in digital storytelling. I suppose that I did not see the […]
Georgina Goes Out
April 9, 2008 by
Can I have a carer please …. for next Tuesday ….. I want to go out with my friends. Georgina is a 16 year old arranging an afternoon out to go bowling in the school holidays. She has cerebral palsy, uses a wheelchair and she’s made a film about living with her disability. It’s very […]
Peg for a story
April 9, 2008 by
This story was inspired by a peg from the magic story bag My fingers were sore and my nails broken I have to know how things work and as a child I took everything apart. If it had a screw or a clip I would have it dismantled in no time. Radios, bikes, toys, kitchen […]
Lock it or lose it
April 8, 2008 by
This story was inspired by a small padlock from the magic story bag Those crime prevention posters must have been effective at some point in my life. I am almost obsessed with locking things up. Doors, sheds, bikes, lockers, the garage, the car … I could go on. I feel I’m more obsessed with locking […]
Digital Stories from Philadelphia
April 8, 2008 by
Painted Bride Art Center Trading Tales Digital Stories In Fall 2006, Painted Bride joined forces with the Center for Digital Storytelling for Trading Tales, a project enabling teens to create dialogue on violence in Philadelphia. I picked up this link today. A series of moving digital stories from a project for young people.
