Category Archives: Digital Storytelling

Workshop to Go: Storytelling for Community Planning

For the Orton Family Foundation, we have put together a 30-minute workshop in both video and slideshow formats to take you through an overview of  storytelling in community planning efforts, using Orton’s project partner towns as examples to learn from, and with exercises to work through as you think about employing storytelling in your community.  [...]

5×5’s

Can you tell a story in 5 short, 5 second clips?  That’s a question I pondered when I stumbled across Five Vignettes channel and 5×5 Fanatics group on Vimeo.  Fun concept.  I started by filming 5 still objects and scenes with little movement in them.  It was boring, I admit.  The images were “pretty” and [...]

Digital Story of Damariscotta Heart & Soul Story Interviews

Watch a short movie of excerpts from neighbor-to-neighbor chats in Damariscotta, Maine as part of Orton Family Foundation’s Heart and Soul Project.
With Orton, we are exploring the potential role of storytelling, both traditional and digital forms, in community engagement efforts. Damariscotta has experimented with story circles and story interviews thus far as ways to bring [...]

A Storytelling Workshop in Victor, Idaho

The final version of Barbara Ganley’s slides on Digital Storytelling, being used as we speak for the joint Digital Explorations/Orton Family Foundation workshop in Victor, Idaho.