Digital storytelling is a workshop-based activity (usually 2-3 days) helping participants tell and create their stories using multimedia tools. The workshop will take you to a storytelling process and set of basic digital media tools in creating your digital story from story idea, script writing, voice-over recording and editing, gathering and editing of images, and all the way to its final stage of producing your 1-3 minute video or digital story.
The stories could be about people, ideas, events, and places in our lives that are meaningful. These are stories about our families, career, advocacies, companies, communities, activities, services – anything that matters to us.
Who should attend? Students, educators, community leaders, parents, retirees, grandparents, pioneers, communicators, human resource personnel, entrepreneurs, etc. – practically anyone with a story to keep or share and anyone interested in learning the tool and art of digital storytelling.
Digital Storytelling was founded in the US by Dana W. Atchley (1941-2000) in 1993. A video producer and avid storyteller, he developed and conducted project-based digital storytelling boot camps, where people – young and old, with or without experience in video production can make their own 2-3 minute video based on their personal story. It later became a movement that has taken flight from the US to the UK, Australia, and other countries.
Digital Storytelling Asia (DSA) in Singapore co-founded by Angeline Koh and Aurelia L. Castro pioneered the work in Asia facilitating workshops in public, schools, prison, corporate groups, non-profit organizations, and others in Singapore, the US, and the Philippines.
(From left: Aurelia L Castro (co-founder, Digital Storytelling Asia), Denise Atchley (Co-Founder and Director of The Digital Storytelling Festival™ and Dana Atchley Productions Inc.), Mr R Ramachandran (Executive Director, National Book Development Council of Singapore), and Angeline Koh (Founder, Tyros/Digital Storytelling Asia).
I moved to Singapore in 2006 to work as a communications staff of an international, interdenominational Christian organization. In 2009, my editor Angeline Koh and I joined the Digital Storytelling Bootcamp by Denise Atchley, wife of the late digital storytelling founder Dana Atchley. We thought it was just about making videos or a photo slideshow. But it was more than that. It was about telling our own stories using our own voices. We love how the process empowers people and how it connects us with one another.
Thrilled and intrigued by it, we kept learning and doing it, telling our friends and colleagues. Amazingly, our organization allowed us to do our first ever digital storytelling workshop among our colleagues. We did it again with more participants from outside our organization. We invited Mr Ramachandran, the Executive Director of the National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS) to watch the videos produced in the workshop. He must have liked it that he opened more doors for us beyond our own organization - he appointed us as workshop leaders for NBDCS's training program "Digital Storytelling Workshop. That later led us to creating our own company Digital Storytelling Asia.
Co-Pioneers
We co-pioneered digital storytelling in Asia. We have run a series of workshops for the public and for a few institutions in Singapore (Ministry of Education, Singapore Changi Prison, Canossa Convent School, Civil Service College, etc.), and also in Colorado Springs (USA) and the Philippines.
In 2012, I went back to the Philippines for good but continued up to today conducting digital storytelling workshops and do story projects with various groups, companies, or non-profit organizations. My job brought me to the US, India, Myanmar, Thailand, Kenya, and more.
I have also collaborated with Goh Aiyat, a trainer and workshop facilitator of Infiniskills Singapore and did video resume workshops in Singapore Institute of Management Global Education, Singapore since 2016 until 2019 right before Covid-19 crisis began.
Our first digital storytelling workshop in March 2009.
Attended Making Reality (Documentary Film Production Workshop) with the International Institute for Film & Broadcast Arts, Makati, Philippines, 2014.
DiSC was an initiative of the National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS) to help create awareness and promote the Digital Storytelling movement in Singapore. DiSC and Digital Storytelling Asia were associated with the Center for Digital Storytelling (USA), Digistories (UK), Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Australia), and the NBDCS.
Attended the DS6 Digital Storytelling Festival in Wales, 2011. My colleague Angeline Koh was one of the keynote speakers.
Attended the Digital Storytelling Facilitators In Training Workshop with the Center for Digital Storytelling in Denver, Colorado (USA), 2010
Together with the NBDCS, Angeline Koh and I co-directed the Asian Digital Storytelling Congress 2010 in Singapore.
Certificate in Digital Storytelling, Center for Literary Arts and Publishing, Singapore, 2008
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