12. • Proven Methodology for First Time Authorship in New Media
• Focus on Story, Literacy and Self Awareness
• Stories Become Snapshots of Community Life
Why Digital Storytelling?
A Continuum of Practice
• Personal Reflections Emerge From Creating a Safe Environment
• First Person Stories Engage Learners and Foster Awareness
• Social Action Begins with Individual Action Captured in Stories
• Stories Can Shape Policy Development and Implementation
• Assessing Needs, Evaluating Success Through Story
21. Some Current Uses
Of Digital Storytelling
• Creativity and Personal
Voice
• Social Change and Civic
Engagement
• Media Literacy and
Technology Education
• Planning, Portfolio and
Assessment
• Broadcast and Citizen
Media
• Healing and Public Health
• Place and Social Geography
22. When we reveal that we have questions, not
just answers, there is an opening to discovery
for all who listen. When we reveal our
strengths and our vulnerabilities, our fears as
well as our passions, our losses as well as our
successes, the listeners receive the gift of a
more complete picture of the storyteller as well
as themselves. …we are doing what humans
have learned to do….transcending our habits,
understanding that we do not need to justify or
qualify our presence. We need only to be
present to ourselves and to others.
Peter Forbes, Center for Whole Communities
Organizing the Community of
Storyworkers
28. Some Critical
Issues
• Are Digital Stories an art form
ora genre of film?
• How do we continue to shape
others narratives through our
prompts and design
examples?
• Contexts forpublication, and
resources to establish those
contexts?
• How best to approach the
therapeutic dimension of the
facilitation methods
• Others?
29. Fours C’s of Story
• Connection – Moment using dialogue
• Context
• Change – Crisis
• Closure
30. Whole thinking
We go beyond narrow fields of endeavor and
interests to take a greater responsibility for
the whole –and use stories to encourage greater
understanding about interdependence.
Reciprocity of success
We need each other to be successful
address truth and reconciliation about our human a
Fairness
All people, regardless of income, color, gender, neig
Balance
We strive to balance specialization and integration, g
Shared Power
People are engaged as full citizens in the decisions
Stewardship for future generations
The concept of “the commons” – all the creations of
Evaluating our Outcomes
Hinweis der Redaktion
My husband and co-founder Joe Lambert suggested that in speaking at a university founded on Buddhist principles that I share a story from the Jataka tales, stories about the early incarnations of Buddha. We have two children, and have read stories to them every night,.
We all understand the power of stories. So let me share this one that I am sure is familiar to many of you.
Once upon a time, the Buddha was born as a fish in a small pond. There were many kinds of fish and turtles, big and small, living in his pond. There came to be a time of severe draught. The crops of men died, and many ponds, dried up.
The fish and turtles dug down and buried themselves in the mud, frantically trying to keep wet. The crows were pleased by all this. They stuck their beaks down into the mud, pulled up the frightened little fish, and feasted on them.
The suffering of the other fish touched Buddha with sadness. He called on the gods to bring the rain, and because he had lived a life of truth and compassion, the gods brought the rain to save the fish. When the Buddha fish eventually died, as would be just, he was re-incarnated.
Digital Storytelling has been used for many purposes. These include: Creativity and Personal Voice
Social Change and Civic Engagement
Media Literacy and Technology Education
Planning, Portfolio and Assessment
Healing and Public Health
Place and Social Geography
Digital Storytelling has been used for many purposes. These include: Creativity and Personal Voice
Social Change and Civic Engagement
Media Literacy and Technology Education
Planning, Portfolio and Assessment
Healing and Public Health
Place and Social Geography
We have done much work in public health, especially assisting people to share stories about traumas, we have an entire site focussed on domestic violence called Silence Speaks.
This work has also taken us to South Africa, where we do ongoing work around HIV/AIDS.
In the last several years, we have also been capturing stories about place, and connecting people through the issues of how they relate to their environment, either in rural contexts or in cities.
Are Digital Stories an art form or a genre of film?
How do we continue to shape others narratives through our prompts and design examples?
Contexts for publication, and resources to establish those contexts?
How best to approach the therapeutic dimension of the facilitation methods
Others?
