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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 comes to integrating diverse sections of a community:

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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 changed the lifestyles of its residents are especially welcomed. Organizers also want to document and record childhood stories or other memories that natives of the region want to share during a special taping. Participants also should bring along documents or photographs related to their stories.

The project was made possible through a grant from the Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore, and recordings will be compiled and included in a Digital Storytelling Project conducted by libraries in the two counties.

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:

- Janette Sargent-Hamill, author of "Family, Your Story: A Guide to Digital Storytelling".

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:

As part of The Planter and the Gael Project, Donegal County Museum and Derry City Council Heritage and Museum Service are hosting a seminar called ‘The Plantation of Ulster – What Does It Mean To Us Now?’ Speakers include Dr Eamonn O’Ciardha, Academy of Irish Cultural Heritages, University of Ulster at Magee. Groups from Donegal and Londonderry (Northern Ireland) have taken part. You’ll be able to watch their digital stories at the seminar on Thursday 1 July 2010 in the An Grianan Hotel, Burt, County Donegal, Republic of Ireland.

Singing Bowl Media helped the group learn basic video and web design skills to complete their short video productions.  New residents across Hobsons Bay and Wyndham City in Australia took part and their stories are being screened locally at the free ‘Light in Winter Festival’ until Sunday 4 July 2010 and also being Skyped from Australia to Thailand:

 
http://www.starnewsgroup.com.au/story/90682

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Ted Lai is the director of Technology and Media Services in California’s Fullerton School District. Here’s his write-up of his Beyond Digital Storytelling session at ISTE Denver which he co-presented with Michelle Bourgeois and Bud Hunt of St. Vrain School District:

http://www.mediaartplatform.nl/blog/angelina-tsitoura/call-papers-mobile-digi…

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..stopping plagiarism isn’t one of them. This is an article in The Economic Voice which argues that encouraging digital storytelling in school might cut down on the stealing of other people’s work. I can’t see it myself but, whatever floats your boat I guess: