Digital Storytelling with Mental Health Rhondda Group

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After our recent successful train the trainer workshops up in Treharris we were very happy to learn that not only had some of the participants been running their own DS workshops but also we were invited to help facilitate a 2 day session last Thursday and Friday.

It's always great to be out and about, especially when the group are such a great laugh. What I was really impressed with was the organisers of the event, Interlink in Rhydfelin, have been so keen to take DS forward as part of their work within the mental health support field, recognising it's potential in terms of allowing service users a voice as well as encourage them to tell their own story.

I think this is best demonstrated in the story "The road to Treharris" which is a call to all their service users to get involved with DS and other digital inclusion activities.

You can see all the stories over on the stories page.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all involved, especially the guys at Interlink and Gofal for making this possible and really taking on the mantle of running digital storytelling workshops in the community.

Photoshop Elements 8 Tutorial

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Here's the PS Elements tutorial we used for a workshop demonstrating how we can use the concept of storytelling in still images. I made this presentation over on Prizi - a very neat site that allows some free hosting of presentattions that can then be embedded and shared. Very nice tool.

I'll post this tut over on the tools page too.

10 Word Stories with Photoshop Elements 8 on Prezi

Training for trainers, Ebbw Vale

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EVAD - Eisteddfod Years Project, March 2010

We ran a two day training for trainers workshop on story collection and Digital Storytelling with staff and volunteers on EVAD's Eisteddfod Years Project. This project will collect and compare stories of the 1958 Eisteddfod and the 2010 Eisteddfod in Ebbw Vale as well as comparisons of the area and town in the two years. The particiapants on the this project will be working with various groups and members of the community to collect material and produce a DVD which will be distributed to the community prior to the 2010 Eisteddfod in August. This project will be by nature intergenerational. As part of the training for trainers workshop participants made their own short personal digital stories to apply what they had learned in the workshop. One of them is available here.

Untitled from geecs storytelling on Vimeo.