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 […]
Archives for 2008
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, […]
My current obsession
April 10, 2008 by
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 […]
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.
