Special Summer Intensive. This is the online version of the original in-person digital storytelling workshop that has supported tens of thousands of storytellers as they identify a personal experience to share, develop it into a script, and edit it into a video. Over the course of TWO weeks, guided by experienced StoryCenter facilitators, you will craft and produce a two to four-minute digital story based on a 300-word narration script.

During the 2-session workshop, participants will engage with StoryCenter’s participatory storytelling methods. They will come together with a community of storytellers to participate in a story circle and develop a short, compelling personal narrative.

This is the online version of the original in-person digital storytelling workshop that has supported tens of thousands of storytellers as they identify a personal experience to share, develop it into a script, and edit it into a video. Over the course of five weeks, guided by experienced StoryCenter facilitators, you will craft and produce a two to four-minute digital story based on a 300-word narration script.

Podcast professionals Bojan Furst and Michelle Dahlenburg will take you through an 6 week journey into podcasting. You’ll find a clear, distinctive voice for your podcast, within a storytelling framework. After discussions of podcast theory and several hands-on tutorials, you will finish the course by constructing a polished podcast segment.

StoryCenter’s Joe Lambert returns to two of his favorite projects of the last 15 years, iOS storytelling for iPhones and iPads, and story-mapping.org, his effort to geo-locate stories about place, change and resistance. The workshop will have participants use their immediate community, and stories about the ways it has changed, to create stories using app-based photography, wevideo, and audio recording with the voicememo app.

How can participatory research approaches leverage the purpose and power of digital storytelling to more meaningfully center the lived experiences of research participants and impacted community members? This workshop offering draws on both popular education and participatory research frameworks to explore how digital storytelling can support with critically reflecting on and sharing personal narratives as a valuable form of knowledge throughout the research process.

This workshop is designed for individuals who are interested in developing their digital storytelling facilitation skills and have completed a StoryCenter workshop in which they create a digital story, or they have completed a digital story in a workshop that employs the StoryCenter approach.

Certain stories in our lives deserve frequent revisiting. Stories that hold a particular key to our understanding of ourselves, and the world around us. Based on the book, Signpost Stories, published in 2023, Bermudan and Caribbean-based author and educator, Janet Ferguson, and StoryCenter founder Joe Lambert will lead you through a series of writing efforts that will evolve into 3-4 Digital Stories during the 10 sessions of the five week workshop.

This is the online version of the original in-person digital storytelling workshop that has supported tens of thousands of storytellers as they identify a personal experience to share, develop it into a script, and edit it into a video. Over the course of five weeks, guided by experienced StoryCenter facilitators, you will craft and produce a two to four-minute digital story based on a 300-word narration script.