Past Caring

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Not a reference to a bout of indifference but the title of a workshop project with folk.us in Devon where people who are carers tell their story, usually after the person they have cared for has died.

Culture Shock Festival

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A big screen, fireworks and secret projections mark this extravaganza of Digital Stories created in Culture Shock workshops across the North East from October 23rd to November 7th 2010.

Vote for Culture Shock

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The digital storytelling project, Culture Shock, has been nominated for an award. The judges have said some really positive things about the value of digital storytelling. They deserve your vote

Singapore Keynote

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I was invited to deliver the keynote address to the 2nd Asian Digital Storytelling Congress in Singapore on Sept 4th 2010.
This is the text of my presentation

Powerful Stuff

Harrogate Ladies College, Lancaster House

There are four participants in my workshop this week. A wide age and ability range but with the small number I hope to give each one the individual attention they will need. We are surrounded by talent here in Harrogate and to take advantage of what’s in offer in other workshops we are joining the [...]

Storytelling at Summer School

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Heading for Harrogate for a week of digital Storytelling workshops at the Riding Lights Summer Theatre School.

Can you run a workshop in Oldham this summer?

Are you free to run a digital storytelling workshop (or two) in Oldham this summer. I’ve been asked to submit a proposal for summer activities for young people under 20, but I don’t have enough spare time.

XO based digital storytelling

How do you give schoolchildren the tools to create digital stories on a $100 computer? You write the software yourself as they have in Uruguay.

The Legacy of Digital Storytelling

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Museums archive things for the rest of us – and so it is with digital stories made in the North East’s Culture Shock! project. But what about the investment in equipment and skills – can we give a digital storytelling project a legacy too?