Copyright

I attended the Making The Most of Copyright workshop on Wednesday 22 August and it was very interesting. The focus was on Copyright issues for schools, universities, TAFE and RTO's which was really useful. As a participant who does not work in an organisation such as these I still found the information useful (we do work with RTOs). There have been some amendments to the copyright act and the impact of those changes was dicussed and debated. The websites that were useful to follow up all the questions you have are as follows: http://copyrightkitchen.flexiblelearning.net.au/main.php and http://www.smartcopying.edu.au/
It was a great opportunity to network and discuss issues around copyright.
John

Voki

Hi everyone, Kate here. Thanks for introducing me to Voki!! It is a lot of fun, and Belinda and I have just spent at least half an hour playing around with characters and voices. I hope to have some more time to play at a later date, especially to see how much the character can say, and if you can have more than one scene. Has anyone got the answer to these questions?

Some neat links

hi all

There is an edna group (educators online forum) around digital stories… I had a quick check and saw there were HEAPS of tools and tips. Have a look at http://www.groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=107 I am going to join up, it looks like gold!

Also check out this short conference paper, it’s a good ‘overview’ of digital storytelling… http://www.icvet.tafensw.edu.au/powerhouse_2005/papers/telling_tales2.pdf

cheers, Nicci

2007_07_20 Things are hotting up!!

Our last get together was a fun, creative and a lively affair. We went over a few process items at the begining of our meeting and then arrived the majestic Lisa Phillip-Harbutt who thrilled us with some great perspectives on how to evoke description and context for story telling. Lisa suggested asking people to describe how parts of stories may taste, feel, the social implications, texture and messages left as a way of providing the story teller with a more full and rich form of expression. Lisa also suggested cultral mapping as a way of describing the events which lead to the story.

Of personal significants was Lisa's description of the continuousness of stories and how there is the experience the makes the story, the telling of the story, the impact of people hearing the story (also the impact for the person telling the story) and those people who choose to relate their experience of hearing that story. Lisa is FANTASTIC!!!!!

Lisa had some suggestions of how we could help with the sharing of stories such as giving people (groups) disposible cameras with themes like: 11am snapshots of your life, out my back door, what I see (disability or not), making the alphablet out of items in your house (can even make sentences. It was suggested to set a story theme before handing out cameras!

We were then treated to Luku, one really cool guy who has a fantastic approach to life and art. He called himself a fluppeteer (Flash puppetry) and showed us some of his great works of animated avatars (see our voki avatars down below). Luku was inspiring and a great presenter who evoked many thougths and possiblilties for our project.

Luku had also redeveloped one of the Photostories and included one of his flupavatars (I made that up just then) with some awesome results. It was a great way to view the story and have a character speaking (or lipsyncing). The flupavatars have different mouth shapes which are moved in sync with the words spoken. Luku has started by showing us a peice of his work which was displayed at Adelaide train station on the multil media screens. Wow it was unreal and a great way to introduce us to his incredibile abilities. For those who could not make it you really missed out big time.

Nicci will make the resources available somehow, sometime soonish so keep checking out the blog site.

Yours in creativity John McK

Being part of the group

I have recently joined this fantastic project and am very excited about the possibilites that it presents. I am meeting with one of the other participants to look at the cool tools that Learnscope has available and how they can be useful for the project. I will keep you posted on the results. Love John

an online avatar

Marlene alerted us to this online avatar-making program... its a good one, but like all the others, must be saved/viewed online.

You can see my voki avatar at the bottom of this page....

....and check out John's as well

Make your own at http://www.voki.com/ and post it to this site!!

Expertise is coming...

Hi all

I have been busy finding people who can help us learn... check them out more through their links...

Lisa Phillip-Harbutt, Director of Community Arts Network SA. Lisa will speak to us at our July meeting about community storytelling processes. www.cansa.on.net

Luku, an animator/artist whodoes some work for Carclew and freelances. Luku will bring some animation characters to the July meeting for us to see how we could use them to build 'avatars' and personalise the stories. www.luku.com.au

Coming to the August meeting (to be confirmed) will be Sonja Vivienne, an independant fimmaker who has worked with lots of communities to help them tell their stories. Sonja can help us scope and get processes right. www.incitestories.com.au