digital storytelling

Thought I'd share a more appropriate post that I wrote for the PCM blog a couple of days ago. This is probably what I should be submitting for my field reports... ----- Digital storytelling: The wonders never cease 10 Oct. 2008 …read more

Knight Foundation Announces Second Year of News Challenge The Miami-based John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has launched the second year of its five-year, $25 million Knight News Challenge, a contest in which up to $5 million will be awarded for innovative ideas that employ digital means to transform community news. …read more

I just finished a digital storytelling and mapping workshop that included over 10 youth who stayed creative and excited to share their stories even i …read more

whoooo hoo. Just got done teaching my digital storytelling class. At Media Bridges, we have a series of youth classes lasting a week or two. Mine lasted one week, 3 hours a day. And the ages were 9 - 15. You would think that the 15 year old would have been bothered by the younger ones, but they all got along really well. …read more

Hello hello fellow VISTAs! Time for a quick summer update. Mmmmm summer...it's a good thing! …read more

Hi everyone, We've started our digital storytelling workshops last week using Open Source software. The first group was from a boys juvenile detention camp. They were cool. They really got into their projects and enjoyed themselves in the process. This week we have a mixed group of kids ranging from 8 to 12 years old. I will post up some examples soon. …read more

Check out my appearance on a panel about changing the media on Cambridge's cable access station, CCTV Critical Focus …read more

Wondering what fellow VISTA Jessica McCoy and I have been collaborating on since September? Check out the launch of a new online project, StoriesForChange.net, sponsored by both of our host organizations! …read more

I taught my first class last week and it went great! I usually just teach the Internet section of the class but this time I taught the whole thing. Our classes at OTX-West are 3 hours long and we teach basic computer training, Internet, and the OpenOffice programs Writer (similar to Word) and Impress (similar to PowerPoint). It was fun and the students and parents enjoyed it as well. I received great evaluations from them on my performance so that's cool. …read more

I'm just recovering from April 2007, which will forever be known in my mind as "the month of excessive conferences." It started with WAM!, then NTEN in DC. But then a couple weeks ago I stole Ben from Project HQ and we headed over to the newly renovated Yawkey Boys & Girls Club in Roxbury for the 7th annual Boys & Girls Club of Boston Cyber Summit. We did some digital storytelling and Google Mapping with 5 youth from Roxbury and Dorchester. The youth did great, taking lots of great photos outside the Club around Dudley but we struggled a bit with technical aspects of embedding videos in the new Google My Maps functionality. …read more