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13-19 year olds in the US are invited to make a real-life film shorter than ten mins, post it on YouTube and then submit it for

judging in the annual American Film Institute/Discovery Channel Teendocs national youth documentary film competition.

http://teendocs.com/

Spread the word. The deadline is 1 April 2010. The top three films will be selected by AFI and will be part of the world-class AFI/Discovery Channel SilverDocs Documentary Festival, held each June at the AFI Silver Theatre, Silver Spring, Maryland, US.

via Discovery Educator Network

Seven women affected by the Congo’s civil wars (1997-2003) came together for a four-day digital storytelling workshop in November 2009.  It was organised by the UN Development Programme Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Resolution and the Center for Digital Storytelling’s initiative Silence Speaks:

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2010/02/26/silence-speaks-multi-media-storytelling-in-republic-of-congo/

via Google News Alert

Workshop attendees from three states learn to use digital stories to make a record of the people’s history as part of its three-day idea exchange among members of the coast’s hardest-hit communities, the Gulf Coast Sustainable Communities Network held a digital storytelling workshop Friday at the main office of the Moss Point School District:

http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2010/02/power_of_the_story_workshop_attendees_from_three_states_learn_to_record_history_using_digital_techno.html

via Google News

A travelling shed called StoryShed will be showcasing digital stories of people from North Somerset in a bid to raise awareness of the different cultures in area.

Theatre Orchard Project, based in Nailsea, set up the project after receiving a grant from Mediabox and Find Your Talent. The Watershed in Bristol will teach 16 people from different cultural backgrounds how to make their short films over the next six months.

http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/content/twm/news/story.aspx?brand=Westonmercury&category=newsNorthSomerset&tBrand=westonmercury&tCategory=znews&itemid=WeED25%20Feb%202010%2011%3A52%3A50%3A060

Weston & Somerset Mercury via Google News Alerts

This is an interesting scrapbook of the travels of the crew of USS Hickox in September  1954- February 1955. You can dynamically turn the pages of this PDF files online. If you search the text for "HMS Diadem", on Page 23, you’ll see a clipping from the Belfast Telegraph 2 Nov 1954:

http://www.archive.org/details/155othcb5518

"The distinctive flush -decked, tall- funneled shapes of two American destroyers were to be seen in Chatham Dockyard shortly before dusk on Wednesday, when the two United States ships. Capcrton and Hickox. locked-ln for a six-day operational visit…. A comprehensive programme of hospitality has been organised by the Reserve Fleet host ship, H.M.S. Diadem."

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

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 it could grow in interesting ways.

via@AmgueddfaCymru via @dafyddtudur

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 as he watches another version of himself being verbally abusive
to his partner. He can’t hear himself.
It’s great to see fresh perspectives being used in social action
shorts like these.

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

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 First Nations Development Institute of Longmont, Colorado as part of  "Native Youth Language Project: Ancient Voices, Modern Tools".

Details:
http://www.ilinative.org/workshops/topics.html
Registration form:
http://www.ilinative.org/workshops/forms/wsRegistration.html

source http://www.reznetnews.org/

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