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Web 2 storytelling exercises January 2010

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These are exercises for a Web 2.0 storytelling workshop held January 7, 2010.  It was generously hosted by Kenyon College, with the support of Ohio Wesleyan University.

 

They are assigned to small groups, each of whom has a wiki page:

  1. Group One
  2. Group Two
  3. Group Three
  4. Group Four
  5. Group Five
  6. Group Six
  7. Group Seven

 

The exercises are broken down into platforms, and are as follows:

 

Wikis

The group that edits together writes together.  But it's a good idea to have one person at a time serving as "scribe."

  1. Write about what storytelling isn't.
  2. Describe a setting.  It may be fictional or real, or a blend of both.
  3. Grab the next group's page, and develop their setting.

 

Flickr

Read "Dominoe".  Reflect.
 
Go to one of these images: "Ferris Wheel Sky","Laminate", "Misty Bridge", "Under belly jelly", "Globe in Ifrane", "Culra Bothy in a Blizzard", or "New Haven Grave Window".  Consider the setting as a story prompt. What is happening? What is going to emerge from it? Write in your wiki page.
 

 

Blogs

Pick one of these and explore: Pepys Diary, Chambers' Book of Days, Project 1968, Experiences of an English Soldier, The Natural History of Selborne. What kinds of curricular materials could work in these formats?

Slideshows

Read "Into the Storm". How is this different from a classic Powerpoint stack?
 

VoiceThread

Create a VoiceThread account, if you don't already have one. 
  1. Head to one of these 'threads and start comment on it: "Monastery in the Snow","Sign of Our Times", "Animal Pile", "Saturn and Rings, Post-Equinox" , "Korean War monument scene".  
  2. Create your own 'thread.  Upload an image of yours, then add a prompt or first part of a story. 

 

Web video

  1. Check out Connect With I. How does it manage to present just enough information to keep the audience going?
  2. Create a Jaycut account. Upload three (3) images.  Then create a voiceover to describe them.  Add that to the mix.
 
 

Microblogs

Go to this Twitter account (pw = narrate). Pick first-person or third-, then start writing the character.
Go to this Twitter account (pw = Athena). Pick first-person or third-, then start writing the character.

 

Multi-platform

lonelygirl15. Where to begin? Start with the YouTube channel and try to figure out the outlines of the whole project. To be helpful, here's a link to the first video.
2009: A True Story. main site, YouTube channel, MySpace

 

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