The Digital Storytelling workshop at Digifest 26 – How did people think storytelling could impact on employability?
Digital Storytelling at Digifest 26
The Digital Storytelling workshop at Digifest 26 – How did people think storytelling could impact on employability?
If you haven’t already read part 1, start there. It’s important context to what follows. The session led by Peter Bryant, Donna Lanclos and Lawrie Phipps on the fictional University of Banford was a little bomb of chaos detonated at the heart of the RIDL conference! I mean that in a positive way, something done […]
One of the problematic areas of using storytelling as a tool for understanding ourselves and our world is that the relationship between story and truth is often fuzzy and unreliable. But what if we went all in on creating imaginary worlds and situations as a way of understanding and changing the real world? What if […]
TL;DR summary – loads of people turned up to our digital storytelling community activity at Digifest last week. This made me realise something important about humanising learning in a world that is being increasingly automated. Our storytelling community activity It was Digifest last week and we were really pleased to run a get-together for the […]
Jisc’s Digifest conference has wrapped for another year. It was as enjoyable, challenging and informative as it’s ever been. The Community Hub area was a new feature this year; a space for the groups that Jisc supports to come together for some rare face to face time. Having launched in January, it seemed a good […]
Last week, Adobe ran the latest of its Creative Campus Collaboration events at Bath Spa University. I’d been invited to run a session so this is a brief summary of some of the main points. Assessing the process, not the product I’ve been thinking a lot about assessment recently from the point of view of […]
What does digital storytelling look like these days? Chris assesses the Pianobook community site as a possible unexpected example of digital storytelling in action.
Chris looks at the fundamentals of digital storytelling and how it can play a part in effective online learning and assessment.
In a world of ubiquitous data and increasing analytical power, we mustn’t forget the power of stories and narrative in making sense of the world. Chris explores what the impact of this on understanding the student experience and the lessons for leaders.
Recently, Chris was presenting a workshop on what 360 video can bring to digital storytelling at a conference in Greece. Here he explains his reasons for exploring the technology and some of teh conclusions he came to including how to address some of the technical and artistic challenges.