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Six Nations Health Foundation Inc., Ontario, Canada has received an award of $40,400 over the next year to increase cultural awareness by having community members from Six Nations share digital stories with school children in the surrounding communities. It’s one of 16 groups in  Norfolk County to be awarded Trillium Cash grants.
http://cd989.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=18367
via CD98.9FM via [...]

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by Martin Bryant. I’ve been using posterous as an easy way of adding international digital storytelling stories and snippets to the right-hand navigation of my www.aberth.com/blog Aberth Digital Storytelling Blog and to simultaneously publish them to twitter via @digitalst. I hadn’t realised until I read Martin’s blog post on posterous that it’s also a great [...]

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Third Tuesday of every month, Pontardawe Script Cafe features a scriptwriter, director or producer as guest speaker. After their presentation, they’ll give you feedback on a script which you can present on the night: either on paper or via the open-mic slot.
Tues 15th Dec– Susan Richardson Tues 19th Jan – Katharine Way
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Add perspective with this Photoshop / Final Cut Pro Rotoscoping tutorial from Focal Press:
http://tr.im/dsroto

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Ethical dilemma on Museums 3.0, Angelina Russo ponders whether or not to publish found films of another family on YouTube.
   http://museum30.ning.com/forum/topics/ethical-dilemma-family-films

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Just added some photos to the HMS Diadem website from Billed-Bladet, summer 1945 recording HMS Diadem’s visit to Copenhagen
http://aberth.com/diadem/Copenhagen/index.html
with thanks to Mary Lane for sending me this.

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Jose Antonio is a Brazilian EFL teacher who loves using technology for teaching and learning. Here’s his try-out of video-blogging tool WinkBall on his Posterous blog Sharing Spot:
http://joseantoniook.posterous.com/a-new-videoblogging-tool
by Gareth Morlais via posterous

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Link to live stream: http://tr.im/islstream 1pm GMT Wed 2 Dec.

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Jode Brexa teaches in Arapahoe Ridge High School, Boulder. In April 2010 she will spend two weeks in Dushanbe, Tajikistan,  as part of an international cultural exchange program. Boulder is twinned with  Dushanbe. One of the things she hopes to introduce to Tajik educators is digital storytelling, which she has been integrating into her classrooms: [...]

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This is a nice Thanksgiving idea. Fourth graders in Chagrin Falls (great name), Cleveland, USA, used Voicethread to record stories about things they feel thankful about:
http://www.cleveland.com/chagrinsolonsun/index.ssf/2009/11/post_4.html
via Google News

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