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Short courses in digital storytelling at QUT
The Creative Industries Faculty at QUT is now offering short continuing professional education courses in digital storytelling and co-creative media, with an option to gain academic credit for the course. The course includes hands-on training in a workshop environment. There will be three courses run this year – there is likely to be strong demand…
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Job vacancy in Digital Storytelling at QUT
There’s a job going in the Creative Industries Faculty for someone to help with the co-ordination and further development of our applied research strengths in the area of digital storytelling and other co-creative media. If you know of anyone who might be good for this position, please forward this on to them, and please note…
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PhD scholarship in Digital Storytelling and Co-Creative Media
I’m one of the Chief Investigators on a project called Community Uses of Co-Creative Media (for short), and we’re offering a scholarship to support a PhD student commencing in 2011. Please pass this information on to anyone who may be interested and eligible! The project Applications are invited for a Queensland University of Technology (QUT)…
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Daniel Meadows: Digital Storytelling Lecture
Daniel Meadows is a world leader in the Digital Storytelling movement and is here at QUT to offer a master-class workshop on new directions for digital storytelling. Come and join us… Public Lecture: Digital Storytelling: the journey from ‘doing media to people’ to ‘enabling people to do media’. When: Tuesday 1st November (THIS COMING TUESDAY)…
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digital storytelling out of the box and in the classroom
So, I’ve scored myself an iBook through a project I’m involved with at QUT (you gotta love the place sometimes), and have started research for the chapter of my thesis on the technological shaping of amateurism, using Apple’s iLife suite of “creative” software as a detailed case study. Always in my peripheral vision is the…
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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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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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Event Announcement: Co-Creative Communities Forum and Lab
Hello! I may have mentioned at some point that I’m one of several Chief Investigators on an Australian Research Council Linkage project called Community Uses of Co-Creative Media which aims to connect Australian community arts and broadcasting via digital storytelling (and other things); I’m crossposting this from that project blog. The research has been very…
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outputs!
I haven’t been blogging regularly, so this is a news dump. I’ll preface it with a bit of commentary, though… As a research fellow in an ARC-funded research centre I have had certain things drummed into me–not least by virtue of hanging out with actual ARC heavyweights from time to time. Especially in the lead-up…
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exclamations
CafePress now has black t-shirts! My friend Marcus got an Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship as part of an ARC Discovery Grant largely based around his PhD research!! (and Axel and Jo’s ARC grant got up too!!!) My UK fieldwork is looking all au-go-go for January!!!! On a less exclamatory note, the Digital Storytelling masterclass I’ve been…