Australian Centre for the Moving Image
http://acmi.net.au/digitalstorytelling.aspx
Melbourne, Australia
In 2002, the Center worked with staff in the Education Department at
the Australian Center for the Moving Image (ACMI) to initiate a large-scale
digital storytelling program. ACMI has since that time integrated digital
storytelling into a range of projects working with immigrant and indigenous
communities, families facing Alzeimer's disease and other chronic health
issues, and many other topics. A key feature of the ACMI’s program
is a public story showcase which makes it possible for those visiting
the Center to view selected stories.
Cambridge
Community Television and Portland Community Media
Cambridge, MA and Portland, OR; U.S.A.
While numerous public access television programs across the United States
offer some form of digital storytelling workshop and/or production services,
these two groups stand out. In the late 1990s, the Center trained staff
at Cambridge Community Television in digital storytelling. Nearly ten
years later, we trained Portland Community Media. Both organizations
now run ongoing classes in digital story creation and screen the resulting
stories on television.
Capture
Wales
http://bbc.co.uk/wales/audiovideo/sites/galleries/pages/capturewales.shtml
Cardiff, Wales
In 2001, the Center trained staff of a new unit in at BBC-Wales/Cymru
on digital storytelling methods. The project developed into an ongoing
program in digital storytelling which has continued to collect hundreds
of stories from throughout the country of Wales. An affiliated program,
Telling Lives, developed in Northern England from 2003-2005, and several
additional projects across the United Kingdom and in Europe and Northern
Australia have grown from the initial collaboration.
Delta Garden
http://deltagarden.se/
Växjö, Sweden
In 2006-2o07, the Center initiated a project with a consortium of Swedish
groups, including Swedish Television, the Forum on Continuing Education
for Journalists in Kalmar, the Universities of Växjö, Blekinge,
and Jönköping, and several locally based new media and community
organizations. The resulting regional project, which represents the
Center’s first co-branded effort in Europe, is collecting digital
stories throughout Sweden and developing other methods to promote citizen
media production.
Digital
Clubhouse Network
http://digiclub.org/sofs/
Sunnyvale, CA and New York, NY; U.S.A.
From 1996-1999, the Center initiated, directed, and trained staff
of the California and New York City-based Digital Clubhouse Network
on methods for capturing stories with youth, elders, women, people
with disabilities, and non-profit health and social service organizations.
The program continues to this day, in the form of online project that
work with U.S. veterans, stories-of-service.org.
Evision
http://ourlifestories.ning.com/?xgsi=1
Wellington, New Zealand
From 2000-2003, the Center collaborated with Wellington, New Zealand
new media organization Evision, to build Evision’s capacity
for offering digital storytelling workshops in the country. These
initial trainings for Evision helped to inspire a number of projects
around New Zealand, including the Digital Life Stories project.
FOMACS:
Forum on Migration and Communication Studies
http://fomacs.org
Dublin, Ireland
The Forum on Migration and Communications (FOMACS) is a collaborative
public media project that aims to amplify voices and personal stories
previously sensationalized or marginalized in dominant media representations
of immigration. In 2009, FOMACS hosted a weeklong facilitator training
on digital storytelling for staff and partners from the Irish Refugee
Council, Migrant Rights Centre, Integrating Ireland, the Center for
Transcultural Research and Media Practice, and individual asylum seekers.
The training presented an opportunity for participants to immerse
themselves in digital storytelling and build their capacity for using
it as a method to document the challenging pathways and social, cultural,
and political networks traversed by migrant workers, asylum seekers,
refugees, and their families.
Managing
Information in Rural America
The W.K.K. Kellogg Foundation; Various Locations, U.S.A.
Beginning in 1999, the Center was under contract with the Kellogg Foundation
to provide technical assistance and training on digital storytelling
in a dozen small towns across the United States as part of for the Foundation’s
MIRA initiative, a multi-year program that assisted grassroots community
activists and organizations in building capacity for using technology
in their work. This series of workshops inspired Kellogg’s continued
interest in storytelling and new media and introduced digital storytelling
to the U.S. foundation world.
Museum of
the Person
http://museudapessoa.com.br/ingles/
São Paulo, Brazil
In 2007, the Center’s Executive Director Joe Lambert received
a Fulbright grant to travel to Brazil and share digital storytelling
with the Museum of the Person, an oral history program that collects,
archives, and exhibits in book and video format every-day life stories
by Brazilians. The Museum has adapted digital storytelling as a key
method for its work to engage young people in sharing their stories.
New Media
Consortium (NMC)
Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Since 1996, the Center has been an active partner with this national
organization of university- based instructional media and information
technology centers. The Center has assisted NMC in the development
of documentation projects, curriculum projects, and countless digital
storytelling trainings at their annual and regional conferences. In
2006-07, the Center worked with NMC’s Pachyderm project (an
open source online exhibition software) to create a model for using
Pachyderm as a tool for digital storytelling and to lead workshops
for 25 Texas museums.
