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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 [...]

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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

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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
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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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