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Digital Storytelling Workshop for Educators

Last week Steve Vosloo assisted in the inaugural 3-day Digital Storytelling Workshop for Educators at the Center for Digital Storytelling, Berkeley, CA. Eleven participants, mostly teachers from across the USA, created their own short digital stories — following the classic digital storytelling process, including participation in a story circle, writing and recording scripts and the production of the stories using digital technology — and also shared experiences and ideas of incorporating digital storytelling into classrooms.

In the USA, digital storytelling can be fitted into curricula standards for writing/language arts, communications and social studies. A challenge is that digital storytelling actually provides learning opportunities that are not accounted for or measured within the standard curricula content and tests.

One of the participating teachers, Ben Grey, has had his 5th-grade students create and publish podcasts about school and community-related content in a project called News from the Greypevine.

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Nokia research survey into consumer behavior

Steve Vosloo has volunteered as a participant in a survey by the Nokia Research Center in Palo Alto, CA. The short study explores the space between the influences and decisions related to buying something (off line or online) and the actual purchase itself, as well as the mediating role that mobile devices play therein. Study participants will be taking photos of products from within shops and immediately recording the emotions around a purchase via their phones and the web.

Add comment June 23rd, 2007