Digital Storytelling
Clodagh Miskelly
20 July 2007, 10am – 4.30pm, Cost: Free
Overview
We all have many stories to tell. Stories represent who we are, portray our life experiences and when presented to others, help connect us to others through common shared experience. By starting to tell these stories and hearing those of others, we can start to shift our perspective on who we are, explore the ways in which we are attached to the communities we belong to and develop new insights into people whose stories we may never have had the opportunity to hear before.
Sharing stories is a powerful way to communicate and is something we do everyday without thinking. Digital storytelling captures and assists us to make sense of our experiences and communicate them on multiple levels.
Please note that places on this workshop are strictly limited and are allocated on a first come, first served basis. If you wish to reserve a place, please contact Events Manager, Yvonne Kincaid at [email protected]
Workshop
The workshop offered the ability to create a complete digital story with sound, narration and still images. Using the latest digital technologies, each attendee was steered through the process, resulting in the creation of a digital story.
Clodagh provided a brief introduction to digital storytelling, digital media and StoryBox- an online interactive storytelling resource- to set the scene for this workshop. This will be followed by a hands-on session, to allow each delegate to experiment with words, images and storytelling and create digital stories on StoryBox.
Each attendee was invited to create a very brief story about an object or image that's important to them as a way of demonstrating some of the ways into digital storytelling.
Technology used on the day included digital cameras, audio recorders, laptops and projectors and involved putting together some images and sound as a taster.
Storybox
StoryBox is an online, interactive storytelling resource designed by Urban Learning Space, which allows users to view, create and respond to stories within Storybox. Stories can take the form of text, video clips, photographs and audio clips which come directly from the user. It is a place to capture and share those stories which are often lost in everyday life.
Biography
Clodagh has worked as a participatory media facilitator specializing in digital storytelling for over ten years. She has worked with a range of groups and communities and with a range of media including moving image, web, and location sensitive/mobile media. Alongside this work, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Community Information Systems Centre at the University of the West of England where she also completed her PhD and researched media production for self expression and for personal or social change and mainly focused on the role of story in this context She currently works as a freelance workshop leader and media project facilitator. She is also part of a small team at Creative Exchange, an NGO addressing the use of arts and culture in development and is the content editor for the award-winning participatory drama 'L8r' for Hi8us South.
