Watch Your Audience Grow

In Boulder, Colorado, 50 or so students are attending the "Tell Your Story" program at the new Visual Arts Complex at CU. The eight-day program wraps up July 29 with an exhibit of the students’ work. 30 of the digital storytellers aren’t native English speakers.
I think digital storytelling is a great ice breaker when it [...]

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Where: Maryland USA - Delmarva Discovery Center on the Pocomoke River in Pocomoke. 2 W. Market St. near Pocomoke’s downtown.
When: July 28, 10am-4pm
Libraries in Worcester and Somerset counties are partnering with the Delmarva Discovery Center to record the unique stories at a July 28 session. Stories that offer a look at the region before technology [...]

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Audio recordings triggered by scanning a barcode on old clothes sounds like a fab way of tracking the life of a garment and its owners. This is experiment begun by an Oxfam charity shop in Manchester, England, and you can read more about it here:

http://www.tonic.com/article/if-your-clothes-could-talk-what-would-they-say/
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- Janette Sargent-Hamill, author of "Family, Your Story: A Guide to Digital Storytelling".

http://bit.ly/a5UdUS
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Here’s a nice profile of filmmaker Cindy Ball who studied digital storytelling at masters level on Ball State University’s well-known digital storytelling course:

http://www.indystar.com/article/20100704/LIVING19/7040325/1275/LIVING19/Conversation-Cindy-Ball-filmmaker
I’ve kept an eye on this university’s digital storytelling progress over the last few years. I was particularly interested in their work with people affected by Hurricane Katrina.
via Indystar

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