Author Archives: rtsallie
Digital Storytelling Examples
I was looking for videos which explain digital storytelling and I found this one on YouTube posted my Hans Tullmann six years ago. There are so many ways to tell YOUR story.
Pronouns Matter
I made this video with InShot and Voice Memos out of images downloaded from Facebook in about 45 minutes. For more information see https://www.mypronouns.org/what-and-why/
Sunflower Struggles
I started this project in September. Though I am not that happy with out come, I am sharing it anyway.
Friday Morning Uber
Digital storytelling can be quick and dirty. I shot with out planning using an Iphone, edited what I collected in to a story using InShot, recorded three audio clips in Voice Memo, and added voice clips to the project to tie it all together. The total project took about 45 minutes.
My Happy Place
This morning I subbed for a high school intermediate drawing class. The students are drawing a small part of their faces. Here are the teacher’s examples. I drew along with the class. It is the first time I have picked up a pencil since Covid shut down life drawing classes in March 2019. My eyesContinue reading “My Happy Place”
Hold Me Accountable
Whenever I am afraid to start one of digital storytelling homework projects I ask myself: 1. What exactly am I afraid of about this project? 2. What are the components of this project? 3. What else do I need to build this project? 4. How long will it take me to build this project? ThenContinue reading “Hold Me Accountable”
Frame of Reference
As a photojournalist I often read the “other” paper in town after an event that I covered to see how that other photojournalist captured the news. This poetry project reminded me of how differently we saw the event. Students analyzed “A Noiseless Patient Spider,” by Walt Whitman and created digital stories based on their ownContinue reading “Frame of Reference”
A Natural Renewal
Jobs often provide benefits of which the folks in human resources office are unaware. I work at the Rivers School, a coed private day school that serves grades 6-12 on 23 acre campus, located 15 miles from Boston with 900 feet of frontage on picturesque Nonesuch Pond in Weston, Massachusetts. During the school year, IContinue reading “A Natural Renewal”
A Bridge Between Reality and a Dream
One of my earliest memories is of my Grandpa reading me the story of Three Billy Goats Gruff. They needed to cross a river to get to the green grass on the other side. Of course, the mean troll played a small part in the story, but what about the bridge? If there hadn’t beenContinue reading “A Bridge Between Reality and a Dream”
Relentless Robin 