Last week, Adobe ran the latest of its Creative Campus Collaboration events at Bath Spa University. I’d been invited to run a session so this is a brief summary of some of the main points. Assessing the process, not the product I’ve been th…
Category: Storytelling
Digital storytelling is a big part of what I do. I help people to tell stories. I’m a non-executive director of Curiosity Creative, a social enterprise devoted to community storytelling.
Chris reflects on this year’s ALT C conference at the University of Warwick, sharing some of his personal takeaways.
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Chris experiments with ChatGPT’s abilities as a storyteller to see what we can learn about creativity.
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If my 46 year old self could have mentored my 23 year old self in being a training professional, what would I have said? I’ve been a staff developer in various guises since 1998, stumbling into the profession mostly as an escape route from another plan that hadn’t worked out. I brought with me a […]
This post was originally published on Inspiring Learning, where I do most of my worky blogging. It’s not often we get to do overseas work in this job, but last weekend I was at the international digital storytelling conference in Greece, running a workshop on digital storytelling using 360 video. I’m going to hold my […]
Lawrie’s been at it again! Following a conversation with Amber Thomas, he posted last night about classic tales and our relationship with ed tech referring to classics like “Stone Soup”, “The Emperor’s New Clothes” and so on and he asked for people to contribute ideas for other narrative types that characterise the ed tech landscape. […]
Telling the story of ME recovery
I’ve started keeping a video diary about my recovery from ME. It’s an attempt to take back control rather than a plea for sympathy.
For far too many people, the student experience involves extreme difficulties and trauma. While no substitute for proper pastoral care and safeguarding, storytelling can be an important part of dealing with those experiences and influencing change in an institution. But it’s not something to be undertaken lightly.
Last week’s Point of View on Radio 4 was from the academic Tom Shakespeare talking about “the power and peril of stories”. In a nutshell he’s saying that the persuasive power of stories has real social consequences and this can be used for good or ill. I’ve been trying to understand this more recently as it […]
I had the chance to make another digital story recently. It was for Curiosity Creative, an organisation I’m a trustee of. Alex, who runs the company, is collecting stories of people talking about objects that mean something to them for a project called The Story Box. This is mine… The Story Box collection is steadily growing […]