One of the simple pleasures of childhood is having a story read to you. For 20 minutes your mind is whisked away to a fantastic world which fires the imagination or gives pause for thought. It is presumed that, as adults, we have grown out of all that. These days it seems the only things that are read to us are PowerPoint slides.Audio books and radio are seen as bridging this storytelling gap, but the stories they tell are often too abridged. Shorter spiels are a great alternative as...Read Full Story
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“The cosmos is indeed made of stories, not atoms. A story told… As always, life is a journey, not a destination, with stories of dots and colors with fading colors and evolving colors. A journey of dots with colors of told and untold stories of known and unknown stories. I should be known long with my stories with passing wave & time”, Robin Trehan
As a child you probably have several memories of your mother or grandmother telling you some of their famous family...Read Full Story
[Pictured above: George Ewart Evans (1909–88) was a pioneering oral historian. He published a series of books examining the disappearing customs and way of life of rural Suffolk, the best know of these is Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay. He was also an accomplished story writer and wrote short-stories, novels and poems. George Ewart Evans was born and raised in the mining community of Abercynon, a stone’s throw from the University of Glamorgan where the George Ewart Evans Centre for...Read Full Story
Anything can happen at Camp Nana. If you can dream it, we can try it. I've been acting out "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" for about 3 weeks now. Now that Abbi is back home with Mom and Dad, I kinda miss being called "Momma Bear." It was a great, imaginative time. And believe it or not, we solved the problem with that "Goldiocks" girl by having "Papa Bear" build an extra bedroom onto the house and invited her to stay. It is great to see such wonderful imagination in an almost 4 year old. To...Read Full Story
An alert from Haworth for today, June 3:Haworth Storytelling FestivalA one day family event celebrating the forms of storytelling from classic tales to modern urban legends and delivered through several performances using traditional story circles, images, technology and music.To compliment the different events there will be facepainting, craft activities, stalls, food, refreshments and a few surprises too.The festival will take place in the...
In the 1920s, the Mexican government attempted to take away religious freedom from its people. Instead, it created a fight which became known as the Cristero War, completely organized and fought by the people without outside help.Contributor: Cheryl HammerPublished: Jun 01, 2012
In his useful post, Why Storytelling is the Ultimate Weapon, Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal, states that science backs up the long-held belief that story is the most powerful means of communicating a message. He refers to a...
Social anthropologists will tell you that storytelling is ingrained in many cultures as a way to solve problems. Chiefs would tell ‘dilemma tales’ where a problem facing the tribe would be framed as a story with an unclear ending. Curiosity drove the group to discover the solution. As much as we think technology and advancement [...]
Yesterday I shared two breakout sessions in Kansas City, Kansas, at the district-wide “Inspiring Excellence Conference” to wrap up the year. I used a Sony ICD PX312 digital voice recorder (linked on the “Digital Backpack Contents” entry on the Storychasers FAQ page) to create “no-edit” recordings of these sessions, and last night published them to (Read More...)
Digital storytelling (DST) for community change begins when a community member acts simultaneously as writer, producer, and director to tell a compelling story of a collective or individual. This space will be used to experiment with the posting of material proposing to show the reders how to engage themselves or community peers in the process...more
Digital storytelling (DST) for community change begins when a community member acts simultaneously as writer, producer, and director to tell a compelling story of a collective or individual. This space will be used to experiment with the posting of material proposing to show the reders how to engage themselves or community peers in the process called DST. Story identification, camera fundamentals, editing, and dissemination are integral parts of the process. The document is meant to build on growing sense of media literacy so that important community stories are told so that they can usher healing, change, or other social agendas.