Digital Storytelling Workshop
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 04/23/2009 - 11:06pm
Short Description:
The Digital Storytelling workshop is an opportunity for hands on exploration of new and exciting storytelling techniques through mixed media. You will learn to combine recorded narration, music and still images to tell a compelling personal story and how to use digital storytelling as a tool for community engagement and empowerment of diverse voices.
Presenters
Presenter One Info:
Devorah Hill, Final Cut Pro and digital stortelling diva, has taught community-based journalism for more than 20 years. She has taught dozens of Digital Storytelling workshops and teaches non-linear editing at MNN
Presenter Two Info:
Jennifer Wager is a Newark, NJ media educator. She currently teaches video production and radio journalism at Essex County College in Newark, NJ. She also serves on the board of the National Mobilization Against Sweatshops, with whom she has facilitated a community video oral history project, producing a DVD and Web-based series of short films on the lives of immigrant and working class women from the Lower East Side. Formerly she worked as a media educator with Manhattan Neighborhood Network, the flagship community TV station in the U.S., training hundredes of community organizations to use video in their work. Since 1995, Ms. Wager has created several online experimental education projects, including the Smithsonian-award winning W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual University.
Ms. Wager holds a M.A. in African Studies from Ohio State University and a M.A. in Communication and Technology from Georgetown University. She directed Venezuela Rising, about the 2004 presidential referendum in Venezuela, which has screened at film festivals around the world and has been broadcast on Venezuelan television.
Presenting organization:
Manhattan Neighborhood Network
