James Diaz 

Producer/Director

Digital Storyteller

Train of Thoughts Productions

 Julie Gomez

Producer/Director

Digital Storyteller

Train of Thoughts Productions

Lhana Ormenyi 

Producer/Director

Digital Storyteller

Train of Thoughts Productions

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SAVE THE DATES FOR SUPERFEST 2011: "SPOTLIGHT ON YOUTH"

Film Screenings of the 2011 Award-Winners:
Friday,  June 17, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Saturday, June 18, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Sunday, June 19, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Tickets $5-$20/day; sold ONLY at the door.

“Meet the Makers” Reception and Awards Event:
Sunday, June 19, 5 p.m.-8 p.m.
This event is free and open the public.

The Marsh Arts Center
(formerly The Gaia Arts Center)
2120 Allston Way, Berkeley, @ Shattuck Ave.
One block from the downtown Berkeley BART station.

Venue is wheelchair accessible. Braille and large print screening schedules are available. All films are captioned and will be audio described. Film introductions and the reception and awards event will be ASL interpreted. Please refrain from wearing scented products.

Award-winners’ descriptions and screening schedule will be posted onwww.culturedisabilitytalent.org by May 1.

CDT gratefully acknowledges the Superfest 2011 funders: California Arts Council, KQED, Gabriel Ledger, M.D., National Arts and Disability Center at UCLA, & Gary S. Yamamoto.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!  SEE YOU THERE! 

Victor Santiago Pineda, PhD
President and CEO
Pineda Foundation for Youth

Twitter: @victorpineda
Skype:  victorpineda2

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Below is a step by step guide on how to make subtitles for your film.

For a sample of a subtitled film clip, you may preview the opening scene from my film, When I'm Not Alone. 

-Rhianon Gutierrez
Life Story Enterprises Team Leader

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I also attended a panel on accessibility, with panelists Sharron Rush, Executive Director of Knowbility.org, Celia Hughes, Executive Director of VSA Arts Texas, Elise Whitworth, a Deaf web designer, Desiree Castaneda, a blind musician, and Barbie Parker, a performance interpreter for the Deaf.  They had ASL interpreters present for both audience members and Elise, and Desiree gave a demo about accessible websites.  Their presentation provoked a lot of questions from the audience about universal accessibility and the commitment that it takes from us all to engage in it.  It isn't easy, as we in the NMA know, but isn't it great to know that we are working on it? 

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Life Story Enterprises Team Leader

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Please review this hand out on rules for good digital stories. These concepts will help you with your rewrite and storyboard. They were developed by our partners at the Center for Digital Storytelling.

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For those who feel nervous about drawing or putting pictures on the storyboards, there is an option of writing out what you want the PICTURE to be (left column) and what you want the AUDIO to be (right column).  You want to be descriptive of the images that you want, such as saying "CU POV of a notebook in my hands." CU=close up; POV=point of view.  For the audio, this can be your recorded voices, the words that you wrote for Lesson 2, music, or sound effects.  What do you want to hear when you see the image of a CU POV notebook in your hands?  Soft music, your voice saying your thoughts out loud, or is it silent but subtitled, like Dylan's story below?

Rhianon
Life Story Enterprises Team Leader

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I hope this helps guide you all to create your own storyboards, whether you use still photos or hand drawings.  Storyboards are essential to planning the visuals that you want to see in your stories.

Rhianon
Life Story Enterprises Team Leader

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100 DIGITAL STORYTELLING TOOLS FOR YOUR DIGITAL SELVES+NATIVES (PART 1-4)[1]

If you want to explore more digital storytelling tools, you can read my other posts on digital storytelling:

·       100 Digital Storyteling tools for your digital selves+natives (Part 1)

·       100 Digital Storyteling tools for your digital selves+natives (Part 2)

·       100 Digital Storyteling tools for your digital selves+natives (Part 3)

·       100 Digital Storyteling tools for your digital selves+natives (Part 4)

“We are our stories, we compress years of experience, thought and emotion into a few compact narratives that we convey to others and tell to ourselves”  Daniel Pink, a Whole New Wind

Digital storytelling, in short, using technologies to tell stories.  It’s a great way to develop visual and media literacy, promote reflection, engage students in their own learning, improve speaking and writing skills, to collaborate, reflect and evaluate.

Here are the first 25 digital storytelling tools that you can use in your classes or just to tell your digital story. I’m sure you are already familiar with some of them and I hope you can find new tools to use.

With Slide , you can create your slide shows with different skins, animations and transitions. You can also create guestbooks for your sites. It allows embedding.

SlideShare  lets you upload your powerpoint presentations and share it with others. You can add podcast to your ppts as well. You can embed it. It’s also a great site for improving yourself. There are good ppts ready for you to learn and get inspired.

Imageloop  is another site that lets you create slide shows with different animations, skins, transitions. You can add music, create a guestbook and embed it.

I’ve just written about ZimmerTwins  on my previous post. It’s the best way to create your digital cartoon and tell a story with it. I’m sure you and your students can create wonderful cartoons.

Pimpampum  is another site I’m a fan with its applications. The first one is Bookr , you create online books using Flickr pictures. you can decide on the number of the pages and embed it or send the link to others. The second one is Phrasr , you write anything you want and it finds images that match with each of your word. You can send the links to others. Great way to wish a birthday!! The last one is Bubblr , create your comic strip with Flickr pictures and add bubbles to tell your story!

Create your beautiful slide shows and share them with the world with280slides .

Animoto  lets you create your videos less than a minute. You just add your photos, choose music and add your text. Animoto does the rest.

Animasher  allows you to make animations and to animate the pictures.

Voki  is a site where you can create your speaking avatar. You can record your voice, or you can use text to speech.

Voicethread  is the most famous digital storytelling tool. You add pictures or your videos and let others comment on it.

BubbleJoy  allows you to place yourself inside an interactive video greeting card that you can send to others.

I’ve mentioned about BombayTV  on my previous blog. It’s a tool for writing subtitles for Bollywood films. You can also record your voice or use text to speech application. There is also BombayTV2  where you can edit different scenes from Bollywood films together and add subtitles to them. ClassikTV  allows to put them different scenes together and add music+effects to it. Also, you can have a look atFuteBolTV  where you can add subtitles to football matches, you can record your voice as well.

With Animata , you can create animations and backgrounds.

You can easily create a slide show from images anywhere on the web with BigHugeLabs .

BigUniverse  is an engaging website. You can read book online or you can create your own and publish it.

BubbleSnaps  lets you add bubbles to your pictures and create slide show.

Capzles  is a way to combine your videos,photos, blogs and mp3s into a multimedia storyline.

ComicBrush  lets you mix artwork and create comics  from a fun collection of comic backgrounds, characters and photos of yours .

Writeboard  is a shareable web based text that shows you every edit and let you go back anytime. It’s a great tool for collaborative storytelling.

With DandeLife , you can keep record of the events of your past and present. You can add videos and pictures. It’s a great timeline and a online journal!

Enjoy

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