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. […]
Jason Ohler's new book
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: […]
Training Trainers Digital Storytelling Workshop – New dates
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 – […]
Aberth Digital Storytelling
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 […]
Family clears home at cliff site
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
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, […]
Georgina Goes Out
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 […]
Digital Stories from Philadelphia
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.