It’s time to enrol for the Digital Storytelling Festival in Aberystwyth. The date for this year is 17th June 2009 at the Arts Centre on the campus of the University of Wales. It’s always good value and if you’re travelling you can stay overnight on the campus for a very reasonable rate.
There’s more information here
Sadly I can’t be there this year as I’m running a workshop in Dorset on that date.
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DS4 – Aberystwyth
Monday, April 20th, 2009Engenious Stories – Presentation
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009This is the presentation explaining the Engenious Digital Storytelling Workshops
It’s in three parts
(Please note that the Salford workshop will now be held on May 7th, 14th and 21st and not t as indicated in this presentation)
Part 1 What is Digital Storytelling?
Part 2 How does Digital Storytelling work?
Part 3 How do you prepare?
The EWB workshop will also be held in Salford be held in Birmingham
To enrol for either workshop contact Dr Zoe Stec L.Z.Stec@salford.ac.uk
Graduate Engineers – free workshop in Salford
Friday, April 3rd, 2009The next digistories workshop in the North of England is in Salford on three Thursdays: April 30th, May 7th & 14th. It’s for graduate engineers – part of the Engenious Stories programme.
Places are free but have to be booked. Contact Dr Zoe Stec L.Z.Stec@salford.ac.uk
Southampton digistories workshop update
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009
The plan for Southampton is being updated. I will be in Building 27, Room 3059 on Highfield Campus at Southampton University next Tuesday giving two taster presentations.
If you want to know more then come along at either 11am or 1pm when I will be expalining how it all works, how much you will get out of it, how it will help aspiring engineers and to answer your questions. No need to book for tasters – just turn up. Enquiries to Dr Steve Dorney
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The workshop will now run on the following Tuesdays – April 21st 28th and May 5th. You need to attend all three days to complete your story. Otherwise the details already published still apply.
Graduate Engineer near Southampton?
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009The next Engenious Stories workshop is in Southampton. If you are interested you have only a short time to register, but it’s free and you will find the experience very rewarding. More about the project here. Click on the flyer below to download it.
To register contact Dr Steve Dorney today if possible.
Faith Stories
Friday, March 20th, 2009I’ve just finished uploading more stories to the digistoriesuk YouTube channel. This latest batch is from two workshops which were run for faith communities. A church called Harrogate New Life and the summer school of Riding Lights Theatre Company. There are some quite remarkable stories here as well as others that are gentle and reassuring in the sense that not every story has to be defined a crisis or disaster. This one is from Ann Bentley – a school teacher in Harrogate.
There are also a couple of my stories in there. “Sleeping Under Cover” is the first digital story I made whilst training at the BBC. It, too, is about faith.
Engenious Stories
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
A new name for the stories produced in the Engineers workshop – Engenious Stories. I’ve assembled them into a single playlist. Take a look
The workflow continues
Sunday, February 8th, 2009I spent Friday morning in East Dorset explaining to a group of people in Wimborne Minster how digital storytelling works. These sessions do me as much good as the people I’m presenting to. Somehow it re-ignites my vision for the whole process, and as the group start to tell stories of their own I get a new sense of how many stories are waiting to be told.
So sometime this spring I shall be in Dorset Training Trainers to deliver workshops of their own.
And on Monday I am at the National Media Museum in Bradford to start a workshop for Broadcast Engineers. The weather’s not looking too kind at the moment (Sunday evening) but hopefully the train will take me there – and those participating.
Still time to book your place
Thursday, January 29th, 2009
There are still places for both Railway and Broadcast Engineers on the Digital Storytelling workshops in York and Bradford.
National Railway Museum workshop starts on Wednesday Feb 4th in York
National Media Museum workshop starts on Monday Feb 9th in Bradford
Places are free but have to be booked. Contact Dr Zoe Stec L.Z.Stec@salford.ac.uk
Broadcast Engineers – tell your story
Monday, January 26th, 2009
The second digital storytelling workshop for engineers to tell their own stories has been scheduled for the National Media Museum in Bradford. It is essentially for Broadcast Engineers to talk about the events and inspiration that led them into their career. The workshop takes place on three consecutive Mondays. February 9th, 16th and 23rd 2009. Participants need to be able to attend all three days.
The aim is to raise public awareness of what engineers do and what motivates them and to insprie young people to consider the profession.
The workshops are funded by an award from the Royal Academy of Engineering to the Universities of Salford and Southampton. Places on the workshop are free but must be booked in advance. You can download a flyer here and find more information on the digistories website
You can watch stories told by acoustics engineers in a pilot workshop to give you an idea of the style of these digital stories.
For more details and a booking form contact Dr Zoe Stec. L.Z.Stec@salford.ac.uk
