Watch Your Audience Grow

Short personal films made by ten disadvantaged 13 to 19 year olds are broadcast on the Community Channel today (Friday 15th May). The films are the result of a Channel 4 and Mediabox filmmaking competition, giving young people the opportunity to write, direct and produce short documentaries. I’ve watched three - by Sarah Coupe, Dequa [...]

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Marina Warner speaks in Cardiff, at University of Glamorgan’s Atrium on Saturday 16th May 2009. She delives the keynote at the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling’s Third Annual Lecture and Symposium on the theme of ‘Storytelling and Gender’.
Marina Warner writes fiction, criticism and historical content. She’s written novels, short stories and studies of female [...]

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Launch of Wales’s first complete On-line Drama Series on Tuesday, 12 May 2009. Twelve episodes written by participants in Cyfle’s scheme. Writing team includes Sophie Fante (Torchwood, Belonging), Jon Treganna (Cowbois ac Injans, The Bench), Rhiannon Cousins (winner of S4C’s 20th Anniversary script competition), Bethan Marlow (bursary winner of 24 degrees scheme BBC/Royal Court) and [...]

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Bernadette Rego: “If as educators we encouraged our students to ask their parent(s) of stories they could share about their ancestors and digitally record them, this could prove to be one of the most engaging and moving learning experiences they’ll have in their school year.” http://spaceforeducation.blogspot.com/2009/04/digital-stories-about-families-do-they.html

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The three main categories are: 1. Outline a Story Idea 2. Find Some Media 3. Pick a Tool to Build Your Story by Alan Levine http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/50+Ways

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Pair-working to capture a personal story http://evaluationtrust.org/tools/story

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Using their iPhone to journal things they see…
Gareth Ioan Davies: http://www.garethidavies.com/
Chase Jarvis: http://tr.im/with
# end Gareth Morlais www.bbc.co.uk/cymru

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Seetha Kumar: “The BBC has a history of innovative partnerships: from Acorn and the BBC Micro, to our community buses which worked with local groups to bring new technology and the internet to hard to reach groups like the elderly and unemployed. We also did this through creative magic - projects such as Digital Storytelling, [...]

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Mediasnackers take a look at teenagers’ emotional respones to the web, new media tools and their lives online. London 15 July. 100 spaces. Registration opens in June.
http://tr.im/twmmf

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