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on having something to say
While working as a trainer in digital storytelling workshops has been rewarding, I’ve been anxious to see if any of the participants will continue using the techniques they learned in the workshops, and how far the stories they have already made travel among their peers. I’ll see what happens to the stories made in the […]
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The Work of Stories
In a sudden twist of good fortune, I’m presenting in place of my supervisor John Hartley at MIT4: The Work of Stories in May – this is the fourth of MIT’s Media in Transition conferences, which I’ve wanted to go to all along. The line-up looks great, should be an enriching few days for me, […]
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Kelvin Grove Urban Village – Sharing Stories
The Kelvin Grove Urban Village – Sharing Stories website launched today – the digital stories produced at a workshop I facilitated last December now have a potential public, which is fantastic! “The Kelvin Grove Urban Village site has a rich and varied history, including its indigenous, military, educational, residential and natural history. The Sharing Stories […]
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Creativity, play and communication
Thinking aloud here about some stuff that occurred to me while continuing to read Speaking into the Air this morning. You probably won’t want to read this unless you live inside my PhD with me (messy in there, isn’t it?). These thoughts also go some way to explaining what I was getting at with my […]
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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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A most convivial week
Last week we completed a digital storytelling workshop for the Kelvin Grove Urban Village Sharing Stories project – a QUT/Qld Dept of Housing project mainly involving oral histories of the area. The KGUV, including the spot where the QUT Creative Industries Precinct now stands, and where I work every day, used to be an army […]
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BBC Digital Storytelling Portal
The BBC website has launched a
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Convivial Tools
Although there are problems with referring to technologies as “tools” (which implies that they are relatively neutral conduits for solely human-derived action), I love this Ivan Illich quote that Digital Storytelling maestro Daniel Meadows brought to my attention: “Tools are intrinsic to social relationships. An individual relates himself in action to his society through the […]
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roxio review
For the bit in my thesis about contemporary constructions of amateur creativity: review of Roxio’s Easy Media Creator
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OurMedia
Look at this: an idea whose time has come, to my mind. There’s a graphic depiction of how it will work here. It’s been a long time since I stumbled across some cool new web project that spoke to a niggling question raised by my research – and there are always a lot of niggling […]