Grassroots Social Change & Digital Storytelling

"Typically, digital stories are produced in intensive workshops. The product is a 2-5 minute film that combines a narrated piece of personal writing, photographic images and a musical soundtrack. The philosophy behind this type of digital storytelling is one of using technology to enable those without a technical background to produce works that tell a story using moving images and sound." (From Wikipedia)

As part of my community media work, I participated in a "train-the-trainer" workshop. I had a few-ish hours to collect/take the photos, record the sound (using audacity and a USB mic... hmm!), assemble, edit, etc. this little guy. The idea is to do this super simply so that I can teach folks who have never before used a computer to tell their own personal story and produce media. Anyhow, here's mine (viewed at the social networking site for digital storytellers:




I am in Texas for the weekend - seeing my big brother, Derek, graduate from medical school! Yay!