Tag Archives: digital storytelling

“The Lottery” Rabbit Hole

I spend more time than I should on social media every day. Every once in a while I stumble over something interesting that sends me down a rabbit hole. Today it was this: In 1948 Shirley Jackson “The Lottery,” all the villagers in a small town gather, collect rocks, draw names to decide whom toContinue reading ““The Lottery” Rabbit Hole”

Notes from Audio Storytelling for Journalists Class Week 1

I am taking Audio storytelling for journalists: How to tell stories on podcasts, voice assistants, social audio, and beyond” from the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin. These are my notes from the first week. Anecdote ~ a short account of a particular incident or event, especiallyContinue reading “Notes from Audio Storytelling for Journalists Class Week 1”

Playing with Rush ~ A Practice Video

One of my goals is to teach someone else all I learn about digital storytelling. This school year I have been teaching my work sibling ~ BT ~ so he can pass the lessons on to his 7th graders in his media literacy class. Every student in our school, an independent school that services gradesContinue reading “Playing with Rush ~ A Practice Video”

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”