Still catching up on blogging stuff I should have done months ago. Back in April and May some of us at Netskills and our colleagues at JISC Infonet took part in 4 days of digital storytelling workshops with Alex Henry of Curiosity Creative. Alex h…
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At Netskills we’re developing our approach to helping project teams to use digital storytelling as a way of demonstrating their impacts. Part of this includes developing our own skills but we’re also putting together guidance for project teams wor…
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WeVideo – online video editing tool
The summary WeVideo is an online video editor that allows cloud storage of assets and finished videos. It’s got a good feature set and nice links to social media tools. But it won’t do everything. Pros Free Sign in with Google, Facebook or Yahoo G…
I’ve been reading a lot about narrative for my dissertation recently and came across 2 examples this morning that illustrate some of the ideas I’ve come across. Oatmeal on Game of Thrones The first simple example is from the Oatmeal. It says it’s …
Just saw this on the Neiman Journalism Lab blog… A collaboration between Condition One and The Guardian it’s a slightly more interactive approach to video where you have an element of control over where the camera is looking. Is it more than jus…
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Digital storytelling with HTML5
Updated 09/12/11 – 16:30: @sboneham pointed me towards this BBC Click podcast where they discuss the Highrise project. Section starts at around 4m 50s. Hat tip to @theokk for this one. Highrise:1 Millionth Tower is an interactive documentary on ho…
In no particular order:1. USB – plugging stuff into other stuff and it (mostly) working.2. RSS – possibly the greatest thing on the web?3. Mobile connectivity – stood on a beach in Wales, downloading a program that knows where I’m standing and can…
We’ve been talking about infographics a bit at Netskills towers recently and one of the discussion points was the difference between clarifying data by presenting it in particular ways and spinning data to get across a message. This came up on the…
One of the hardest parts of creating decent digital stories has been picking music that’s OK to use for most situations. There’s a lot of Creative Commons music out there but it’s difficult to find and/or poor quality. Step forward the Vimeo Music…