Watch Your Audience Grow

K-12 teachers in Oregon, USA, are coming together to work out an integrated strategy to give a fair chance to all children at making digital stories and other media literacy based skills, no matter how rich or poor the families there are. This article in The Register-Guard about Eugene School District teachers’ approach is an [...]

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I was please to read about digital stories made in Macedonia as a result of a Hi8us/British Council partnership. I remember meeting Hi8us’s Mark Dunford when he was in the planning phase of this partnership a few years ago. Hi8us team members went on to receive digital storytelling training from Daniel Meadows before starting a [...]

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This headline from the Hometown Life newspaper grabbed my attention. As I read down the page, I realised it referred to Detroit’s Madonna University’s Livonia campus’s contribution to Christopher Coppola’s Accessible Hollywood drive and that it was really a story about digital storytelling.
"This is the Detroit-area’s third annual Project Accessible Hollywood (PAH-Fest) — an entirely [...]

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Awards of up to £3,000 to professional artists who live in Wales and to professional arts organisations based in Wales. So, if you’re looking to extend your digital storytelling practice abroad and you’re resident in Wales, you may be interested in this.
"The purpose of the International Opportunities Fund is to encourage professional arts practitioners both [...]

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The Great Canadian Story Engine inspired me as I started to get interested in digital storytelling at the start of the decade. That site’s now gone but I came across another great Canadian site today. It’s called Work Through Time and it’s all about Cape Breton’s industrial and rural past. The text and audio of [...]

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