Join Kiwi Educators on Friday May 16th at 8.00 pm (NZ time) (May 16th 1.00am PDT)on Koru,for a two hour session of sharing our SL stories to mark International Day for Sharing Life Stories.
We’ll be using Voice chat to share our stories in a storycircle. Be prepared to speak for no longer than 5 minutes and IM Arwenna Stardust to arrange for the display of any images you would like use to illustrate your story.
With your permission, we’ll record your stories and have them ready to share later.
Even if you prefer just to listen (we’d love an audience!) come and join us at: Kiwi Educators Meeting Area, Koru SLurl: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Koru/156/122/27)
Hmm we seem to be taking a break. One break was at a school reunion. Now there’s a place for stories. Who are those people? How come they look so old? How come they don’t know me? Am I looking that old too? While it’s great to catch up, ya gotta admit that the best stories are the ones that make us laugh and relate details of teenage angst. Gosh! was all that going on too? How intense are our teenage years.
Barnaby Haszard Morris’s blog Jdanspa Wyksui provides some thought about images and how he feels about them. Worth a read.
Kiwi Educators in SL are planning a storytelling circle (yet to be clearly defined) to mark May 16th -International Life Storytelling Day. Should have collected stories at the reunion!
OK- we all know that lyrics set to music are the most common stories that we tell. And we all know that we read books then get disappointed when we see the film - That’s not how I imagined it.
This video of Antony and the Johnsons tells a story that for me, linked into the stories of men who try to overcome violence. I have listened to this many times and thought that it was about unrequited love, and that it’s also about staying in a violent relationship.
But it’s all open to interpretation - as the comments on this vid of Fistful of Love attest.
We guess that’s why digital storytelling is so great - you get to write your own script and show your own images.
May 16 an International Day for Sharing Life Stories
The Museum of the Person International Network (Brazil, Portugal, USA and Canada) and the Center for Digital Storytelling (USA) have announced Listen! – International Day for Sharing Life Stories, an international celebration of life stories to take place on May 16th 2008. They are launching the project website, www.ausculti.org to assist with information sharing and coordination of the campaign. The goal of the campaign is to gain broad recognition of May 16 as an annual day for sharing, listening to, and gathering the stories of people’s lives.
We are a Hamilton-based company (with another base in Wellington) established in 2005. We focus on digital storytelling and learning design.
Stephen Harlow
Stephen is an experienced teacher (secondary) and instructional designer. As an inaugural Flexible Learning Leader (NZ) he has trained with digital storytelling leader, Joe Lambert in San Francisco. He also has an interest in music, blogs, teaching and learning and latterly - libraries.
Cheryl Brown
An experienced teacher at tertiary level, and an instructional designer, with expertise in project management and a M. Ed in adult education, Cheryl also has an interest in museums, writing, organisational culture and discourse analysis.
Both are recipients of the ITPNZ awards for excellence, and are inaugural trustees of the Waikato 2020 Communications Trust.
Merry Christmas! As we celebrate the birth of one of the greatest storytellers it seems appropriate to link to some seasonal silliness: How the finch stole e-learning. A fun animated tale in which the finch learns that e-Learning’s “more than computers and mice”, it’s “…a story told with instructional design”. Certainly brings a smile to our beaks!
So Dave Pollard has found love in Second Life? Severally it seems. But he is also trying to create an Intentional Community which seems like a Good Thing to do.
Yesterday I visited a few interesting sites more in the educational line with a colleague (should we call each other by our ‘real’ or second life’ names? We did both) and tonight I’m off to party online. I’m disturbed to find that I am as worried about to what to wear in SL as I am in RL. Help! But in general it seems that SL has potential a lot of ’stuff’ but at present its great for playing in. As my friend Frank says “Will it save the world though?” Maybe Dave P thinks it can.
Just been at a metadata seminar where there was a lot of jargon! It was an interesting if at times overfull day. Good to hear what the Ozzies are up to and to wander around the thoughts of Gavan McCarthy who wondered about archiving and Douglas Campbell who deconstructed identifiers for us. Judith Pearce at the Australian National Library and Jane Hunter were impressive too. It was a full day with a lot to take in. Can’t help wondering about the energy that goes into sharing information in relation to the quality of content…….ah perhaps I had too much information.
Ah the more you know, the more help you get, the more you find.
I’ve made contact with a couple of mentors and it helps. It’s a nice analogy for life really - ya need someone to show you the ropes. Really it’s just like the first day at university, school or well, play group. If someone helps you out you get to know more.
I’m still finding the need to use information literacy skills pretty important, however. And in a sociological kind of way it’s interesting working out the aforementioned gender identifiers. In a group meeting I reckon I could spot the true men - they were the ones talking jargon. Or is that unkind? Perhaps we women were off changing our appearance again. LOL. But I found this - a comment on gender stereotyping in SL.
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