Stories for Change is an online meeting place for community digital storytelling facilitators and advocates. Learn more about how we're using this unique medium for social change and join the network.
This story, by "Smokey," is a true story written for a class project, that he turned into a digital story as part of his work at the Camfield Technology Center this summer. It uses spoken word and repetition of the phrase "take a walk in my shoes," to emphasis his feelings of disappointment of having to move to a one bedroom apartment in the projects with his family of seven. It happened because his mom got into trouble with the law and they lost everything.
Yaritza is her story about making the best of a second chance.
Six youth from the Kino Neighborhoods of Las Vistas, Western Hills, Pueblo Gardens and South Park were chosen to participate in a basic digital storytelling workshop. This is one of the stories. They share their voice to inspire a greater sense of community, understanding and awareness through a glimpse of their struggles and passions.
Seminar.net is a peer-reviewed academic e-journal in the area of media, technology, and lifelong learning. In this academic area, Seminar.net welcomes and supports the presentation of visual material, videos, animations, and genres that have emerged from expressions in the New Media in symbiosis with written articles. Seminar.net aims to expand the format of how academics can express their insights, wisdom, and scientific results.
We aim at publishing a special issue of Seminar.net on "Digital Storytelling". We invite
