Watch Your Audience Grow

Just heard this news: congratulations to Nia M Davies and her team for their nomination at the Newry Celtic Media Festival for the PS website.
http://www.celticmediafestival.co.uk/11,29/the_festival/shortlist/#Kieran%20Hegarty%20Award%20For%20Interactivity

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National Museum of Wales has a section called Your History with: "a variety of images and recollections from all around Wales, by the people of Wales.Your History will be based entirely on stories and images submitted by you…"
http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/rhagor/galleries/yourhistory/
It’s still in its infancy - starting with the theme of Wales at Work - but [...]

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Two UK TV ads use the ‘voice of conscience’ to great effect. The first is an ad where a man who drove too fast through town is haunted by visions of the contorted dead body of the child he ran over. The second is a frustrated man banging in on his own living room window [...]

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by Judith Cramer of Columbia’s Teachers’ College. She also writes about Remembrance as a theme and the use of Telling a Story in Five Frames:
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=7340
via Google News Alert

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Santa Fe Indian School, USA, is running six digital storytelling workshops from Feb-May 2010. The stories will largely be in the area’s Native languages and this sounds like a fantastic way of capturing the stories and sharing them between generations. The workshops are possible because the Indigenous Language Institute received a $15,000 grant from the [...]

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New website VJ Movement is home to short documentaries by video journalists from around the world:
http://www.vjmovement.com/
via EJC’s newsletter

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Use of digital storytelling in your classroom may mean you’re in with a chance for a PBS Teachers Innovation Award.
PR Newswire says: "PBS and its local stations are calling all preK-12 educators who inspire and engage students through innovative classroom techniques to enter."
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/innovators/
The deadline is 12 March 2010. Via PR Newswire via Google [...]

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This is the Yolo County Stories blip.tv channel showing the output of that area’s digital storytelling station. It’s nice to see the storyteller telling their story on video, along with the old photos.
http://yolocountystories.blip.tv/ I can’t help wondering about how this would look if the storyteller was looking ito the lens instead of reading a [...]

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