FIRM (2010-2012) DigiTales was part of an ESPRC funded consortium called FIRM which included Goldsmiths, the University of Salford, the BBC and Imperial War Museum North. Our work on this academic research project used Digital Storytelling to enable people from local community groups in Salford to use material from the BBC archive to tell a personal story. In collaboration with…

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Digital Storytelling as academic practice (2011) Digitales ran a Workshop with Goldsmiths Learning Enhancement Unit (GLEU), to explore the use of Digital Storytelling as a form of teaching practice inside and outside the university, in formal and informal education settings.  Workshop leaders were Mark Dunford and Tricia Jenkins of Digitales, and Fotis Begklis. Academic Developer for Technology Enhanced Learning in…

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Eat my Shorts (2011) Eat My Shorts was a partnership based Digital Storytelling project that enabled 20 vulnerable young people from Jaywick in Essex, an area of exceptionally high economic and social need, to gain the creative and technical training in basic digital media production needed to tell their own stories.  With support from the Big Lottery and the EU,…

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  Digi-Essays with University of Stirling, 2011 Digitales joined forces with University of Stirling to explore new ways to deliver student work using digital storytelling instead of written work.  Digi-Essays were inspired by the digital storytelling work taking place across the world A five-day workshop was kick-started by a special showcase session highlighting work completed by Digitales. Students from the…

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Extending Creative Practice (2010-2012) Extending Creative Practice involved five partners from four countries exploring the use of digital storytelling as a means to reduce the digital exclusion of older people and to gather stories from across distinct settings.  DigiTales trained trainers from partner organisations in Finland, Slovenia and Romania who then went on to make digital stories with older people. …

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George Petrou from Dimitra holds a copy of the DigEm Guide to Digital Storytelling DigEm (2009-2012) In October 2009 Digitales was confirmed as a partner in DiGem (Digital Empowerment), one of 15 pan European partnerships funded by the EU under the KA3 component of the Leonardo Transfer of Innovation element in the Lifelong programme. The partnership was led by Dimitra…

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Imagine Your Future (2008-2010) DigiTales was commissioned by the British Council to work with young leaders from nine countries on the production of a series of stories where the young participants were encouraged to Imagine their Future. Digitales hosted an introductory symposium for young people and their host organisations at Goldsmiths, and this was followed by a series of train…

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