Watch Your Audience Grow

Forward-thinking  Swansea Youth Service in south-west Wales has launched a new website with video uploading facilities: "It allows young people aged between 11 and 25 to write news stories, upload videos and use state-of-the-art digital storytelling techniques and photos to let other people know what they’ve been doing at their local youth [...]

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I know Daniel Meadows and Jenny Kidd contributed a chapter about our BBC Capture Wales Digital Storytelling project to “Story Circle: Digital Storytelling Around the World”. ISBN-10: 1405180595 http://www.amazon.com/Story-Circle-Digital-Storytelling-Around/dp/1405180595

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In Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, at the Art Gallery of Peterborough until 5 June 2009.  “This important initiative gives women the chance to combat misperceptions of disability and difference on their own terms,” - Carla Rice, clinical specialist on body image and professor at Trent University.  http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1580893

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I love this kind of interactive tabletop exhibit at museums. There’s a nice one at Swansea’s Waterfront Museum. The one I’m looking forward to is the one that allows visitors to input their own objects as well as re-arranging the museum’s. http://tr.im/multitouch (Powerhouse, Australia)

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Prime Cymru’s Scratch and Sniff Project is a digital storytelling programme for seniors in Pembrokeshire, south-west Wales. Funding came from The Gwanwyn Festival, a Wales-wide event held in May which ‘celebrates and encourages creativity in older age’. I’ve heard very good things about Gwanwyn and it’s great that digital storytelling is one of the key [...]

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The California State Library this year awarded $345,000 in “California of the Past” digital storytelling grants to public libraries.” http://www.mercurynews.com/contactus/ci_12431165

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Suzy Pratt suggests: 1. move away from the ‘once in a lifetime experience’ approach. Make it feel like a process that can become more of a ‘routine’ than a ‘treat’ event. 2. get people making stories using accessible tools. E.g. free web-based editing tools they’ll be able to continue using after you’ve moved on. 3.reduce [...]

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As I watch this story, I wonder how Patrick would have felt had he been able to hear what Amber felt about him _before_ he died. This is a beautiful digital story.
http://tr.im/amberdad

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‘See the Difference’ is a charity that helps people who want to fund-raise for their own charity to use digital storytelling to do this. There’s a showreel on the homepage. http://www.stdifference.com/

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Written by Angeline Koh and Aurelia L. Castro, both members of the Writers’ Coffee Lounge, Singapore. Details of their next workshop, 11-13 June 2009. http://digitalstorytellingasia.com/wp/storytellers/

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