Category: Digital Storytelling
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Electronic Literature, Digital Humanities, & Creative Writing
This morning we met with a professor teaching Fiction Writing who wanted to incorporate a DH assignment into the course that required the students to tell a story through a new technology of their choice. The students will start by completing a 3-page writing assignment with pen and paper. Then they will be asked to […]
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Creativity and Code
The third class of multimedia storytelling design is focused on what I call creativity and code. Continuing the focus on Snow Fall, the class reading for today is How We Made Snow Fall. That last link is a really good article, worth reading closely. Creative thoughts from the how Snow Fall is made article: Making a […]
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The simplicity of the web
The second class of multimedia storytelling design is focused on what I call the simplicity of the web. My advancing age, almost 50, gives me the advantage of having witnessed the evolution of the web from a text-based browser to the apparent complexity of modern web sites. I encourage those learning the web to break […]
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A new course: multimedia storytelling design
This morning starts the first class of a new course on multimedia storytelling design that I’m co-teaching with Professor Toni Locy of our journalism department. The subtitle of the course is “How’d They Do that?” The benefit of co-teaching with a journalist is that the copywriting is great! Here’s the course description: Have you ever wondered […]
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Digital storytelling: past and present
For the last 15 years I’ve been on this path: exploring the intersection of databases and narrative. Stories have always attracted me as the ideal form for understanding life, both present and the past. Perhaps more importantly, I have envisioned my future as a series of stories that I’ve told myself. I’m fascinated with how […]