Looks as if we’ll be represented in Spain in 2012.

Should be a wonderful conference with the lovely Joe Lambert being a guest speaker for starters. And interesting to see and hear what Europeans are doing with digital stories. Can’t wait.

We’re accepted for one paper on digital stories in education and another on digital stories and the community (with some reservations).

A friend tells me about this software for dst.

Has anyone tried it? She says it’s good.

http://www.befunky.com/

This conference seems worth a look. Joe Lambert will be a keynote speaker.

http://www.uv.es/digitalstory/index.html

A lot has happened. There are more and more digital storytelling sites about:

Brazil: , Icebreaker Productions in Argentina, US Mob in Australia and a Digital Storytelling conference we wish we had been at.

Maxine Alterio and Adrian Woodhouse at Otago Polytechnic have done this research project about using digital stories in vocational learning. They found that:

1.Digital storytelling supports vocational learning and literacy development
2.Reflective conversations encourage deep learning
3.Collaboration fosters empathy and transformative learning

It’s a useful study and you can read more about it on the Ako Aotearoa website.

Pretty much what we’ve been saying but good to have research to back it!!!

It really has been a while. We’ve been busy. We’ve done 2 sessions with Auala for Success in Hamilton and Stephen has done one by himself.

I’m doing digital storytelling with students at Weltec and also some community ones - a labour of love. One will be added here about old Porirua but you can also see some on the Ranui Residents website.

Meanwhile I note a couple of books about digital storytelling and some research, so I’ll check these out and add more.

http://elearnmag.org/subpage.cfm?section=articles&article=120-1

A wee article about the value of digital storytelling. We knew this!

..since we wrote anything. Social networking sites seem to have taken our interest. Or perhaps real world have intervened.

But! Last year we did run a hugely successful workshop in Hamilton. A small group of Pasifika and Maori teenagers joined us for a workshop on digital stories. Many of the stories were emotionally moving and the final showntell event was attended by families and friends, as well as Maori tv. We can’t really show you any stories because we did not seek permission to show them, and besides they’ll be shown by the Hamilton City Council staff who organised the week-long event. But one of us did get to portray a racist school teacher…..

Another workshop is planned for this year. Meantime one of us is collecting stories of locals who have lived in the Porirua area for a while. A kind of mission of love, and also preparing to co-present a paper on distributed identities at the DEANZ Conference in Wellington at the end of April. The other of us has moved daytime jobs to the University of Waikato!

Helen Barrett’s discovered some interesting research directed by John Sanders at Leeds University. Reflect 2.0 is case study research into reflective practice and digital storytelling across disciplines, building on the work of Jenkins & Lonsdale.

The researchers ask that those that are interested join them in the i reflect community where you can find resources, watch stories, and contribute to the community forums.