digital storying telling

bgblogging: Lessons Taken from the Gathering of Digital Storytellers: "He focuses on visual storytelling. He showed a story by a student on a reservation--the process took three weeks. Josh had to learn a whole new form of communication and teaching--the community didn't want to talk about the issues.
'Why do we even take pictures? How are they used in society? Are they the truth?' These are the basic questions he starts out every class with. The essentialness of teaching image literacy. Every photograph is a self-portrait.
Taking metaphor and turning it into matter--hope, sorrow, confusion, for example. He gives students an image scavenger hunt--he gives them abstractions, and the kids have to go out and take photographs of time, memory, etc."

- ideas for ENG4U, version 2