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Digital Storytelling Workshop: Reflections
Here’s a couple of the participants in the YIRN Digital Storytelling Workshops at Visible Ink putting the final touches to their films in Adobe Premiere. The trainer in the shot is Jo Tacchi They all finished in the three and a half days total workshop time and the results were great. Once they’re up on […]
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urban nostalgia and wonton soup
I’ve been having a great time working as a digital storytelling trainer at Visible Ink (see below) and have been inspired by the creativity of the young participants, and the diversity of their approaches to what a digital story can be about and for. So while I’m on the show and tell kick, and to […]
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Digital Storytelling is Go
Tomorrow I start to put my money where my mouth is, as part of a team of QUT trainers conducting a digital storytelling workshop with young people at Invisible Ink in Fortitude Valley. It’s part of the Youth Internet Radio Network project as well as research for my PhD. I’m very excited about putting my […]
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Digital Storytelling and the aesthetics of the deeply uncool
Together with three brilliant people, Mel Gregg, Jane Simon and Kris Cohen, I’m putting together a panel proposal for this year’s Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference, Everyday Transformations. We are tossing around ideas about amateurism, the banal and mundane, and problematising the default hipness of new media and digital technologies. Here are some of […]
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Hello, Earthlings
Apologies for the unexplained absence of late. But I do have a good excuse: I’ve been immersed (and I mean, immersed!) in Digital Storytelling for the last two weeks. Which is to say, I’ve been kind of off the planet. Thanks to the Faculty of Creative Industries here at QUT, 7 postgrads and research staff […]