Watch Your Audience Grow

People talk frankly on camera about ‘that moment’ when they gained wisdom that changed their lives. Like StoryCorps, there’s a tour. It’s sponsored by Mutual of Omaha - full credit to them. Syracuse is the next stop. The related blog link’s worth exploring too. http://www.ahamoment.com/ With thanks to @storytellin for letting me know about this [...]

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Digital Storyteller Jason Ohler outlines the role portable devices and widespread access to publication play when the going gets tough, in a piece entitled ‘Iran becomes iRan’:
http://subtechst.blogspot.com/2009/06/iran-becomes-iran-censorship-meets.html

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One in a series of five digital story articles by Jenny Murr in the Atlanta Examiner “There has to be a reason for telling the story or it’s going to be boring. Think of it as an obstacle the subject of the story must overcome or a goal they must achieve. ” http://www.examiner.com/x-13729-Atlanta-Writing-Examiner~y2009m6d30-Five-tips-for-writing-a-good-narrative-for-Digital-Storytelling

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With technical advice, educational tips and related projects, these are digital story related links from the BBC Wales Your Video site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/yourvideo/links_main.shtml

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Here’s a search for "digital story" activities near San Fransisco: http://www.allforgood.org/search#q=digital%20stories&num=10&start=1&vol_loc=san%20fransisco&timeperiod=everything&cache=1
All For Good is Google’s new tool which "aggregates volunteer opportunities from around the US from a number of charities and other websites. " (Adam Ostrow)
via @ThirdSectorLab  via @digitalforgood on Twitter
- by Gareth Morlais - www.aberth.com/blog and http://twitter.com/digitalst

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But I love this four-minute short film about a chance encounter between a woman and a man on a train. http://shorts.findoko.com/?q=content/thousand-words-0 This is a re-tweet of a link from @ShortFilmFest

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Inspiring and inviting children to make movies, Me and My Movie has roadshows from 28 July to 28 August  all around the UK
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/meandmymovie/involved.shtml

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James Broomhead, Westminster Avenue, Lodge Moor, South Yorkshire writes about his time on board HMS Diadem in The Star newspaper:
"Towards the end of May 1944 we sailed from Scapa Flow in a Force 8 gale to GreenForce 8 gale to Greenock on the Firth of Clyde. We set sail thinking we were going on another [...]

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Brookeborough Primary School and St. Mary’s Primary School, Brookeborough have launched their first digital storytelling DVD. http://www.nwipp-newspapers.com/fh/free/314396539880984.php

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Here’s the story with photos and embedded videos on BBC News: “Nearly 600 short films made by people from across Wales as part of a BBC project have been saved for posterity.” http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/8105023.stm

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