Sharing

Community development through digital storytelling and sharing activities, celebrating community life and memories, can be facilitated using online tools.

Sharing through Digital Storytelling

Digital storytelling (DST) is a great way to capture community members' oral and visual histories. Among the leaders of community projects, this has been one of the more popular ways to engage learners' interest.

For example, a few of the E-Learning Creative Community Projects have used Digital Storytelling as a deliberate strategy to "engage the disengaged", for example, Deadly Mob, Barkly Arts, Harnessing Rural Skills (Wodonga), and "The Edge" (Southern Metropolitan ACFE, Victoria (*).

You can find out more about DST via the Digitales Network, (*)

Sharing your voice

Another way to create sound/audio files for others to download from the web is to create a Podcast.

Scrapbooking

Carole McCulloch is also a keen Scrapbooker, using Picasa2 to collate photos and information into graphic images.

She says: "I'm particularly fond of Picasa2 - it helps me organise my many digital photos into nice neat packages and I love the function that allows me to group them together (as a collage) so that it looks like a scrap book."

Click to view a sample that she has prepared for a recent photo album online. She's planning to introduce it into a short course with the local Neighbourhood House. (Workshop 1 - recording voice in Powerpoint (PPT), workshop 2 - managing digital imagery for PPT, workshop 3 - building a digital story in PPT and Photo Story 3)

Click to find out more about using blogging tools eg. Motime to help you celebrate community life through:

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