Watch Your Audience Grow

The stories made at Malden (Massachusetts, USA) Cyber Cafe are being shown on Gallery Spotlight, Sundays at 1pm, Wednesdays at 10pm, and Saturdays at 8pm on Comcast Channel 3, Verizon Channel 28.  http://www.wickedlocal.com/malden/fun/entertainment/x737333978/-Digital-Storytelling-featured-on-Gallery-Spotlight

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http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/bellona_class.htm#HMS%20Diadem

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"Right now there are more than 300 million people around the world watching video content online. It’s a fundamental shift that completely democratises our business." Peter Chernin, News Corp.
(seen on a slide in a presentation by Jon Gisby; I think this is the source.) http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2007/sep/15/citynews.musicnews

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UK media regulator OFCOM defines media literacy as: "the ability to access, understand and CREATE communications in a variety of contexts". I think it’s great that the word ‘create’ appears there.
University of Tokyo’s Shin Mizukoshi’s definition is even better, because it speaks of individual authors, and is explicit about the fact that one needs [...]

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1. broadcasters welcoming content from audiences 2. social media like YouTube 3. web-based online video and image editing and storage applications 4. increase of capture resolution of small devices (Nokia N93, Zoom H2, etc.) 5. the ease of cross-embedding content in many places [...]

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http://www.rnmuseumshop.co.uk/acatalog/dexterous-duke_of_york.html

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More graffiti from Bangor, Gwynedd, between Unknown and orange-loving Nadia. I’d love to know the full story…

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"Watching a digital story is a little like taking a walk on a dark night past a house where the owner has left the curtains open and the lights on - you get a special glimpse of life inside." - Gilly Adams, Capture Wales, at a meeting with Digital Storytellers in Cardiff, March 2008.

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Third Coast Writing Project at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo,  from 15-19 June, has a session called ‘Writing 2.0: Teaching Writing in the Digital Age’.
It will "let participants explore ways to teach writing using today’s tools for tomorrow’s world. Tools include digital stories, blogs, wikis, podcasts and vodcasts, slides for publishing and sharing student work, visual programs, [...]

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Fairfield Stories tells tales of journeys, love, struggle and hope as experienced by young people of Cambodian and African backgrounds.
It’s part of the ‘Digital Storytelling: Sustainability and Community Media in Western Sydney?’ project, and there’s a free screening on Saturday 20 June 2009.
More info on the Streetcorner site:
http://www.streetcorner.com.au/news/showPost.cfm?bid=10767&mycomm=WC and [...]

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