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Storytellers you can't ignore in an organisation - Rediff Getahead
The author of The Boss Is Not Your Friend, Vijay Nair analyses the different types of story tellers in an organisation and writes about how they influence other employees. E ver since I opted to be a writer and assumed the identity of a story teller, I feel totally at home in organisations. Allan Kay, Vice President, Walt Disney had gone on record to say 'Why was Solomon recognised as the wisest man in the world?The Atavist
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Welcome to the workshop home for digital storytelling. This site was designed for work and exploration and you should feel free to peruse and use the resources. The hope here is to move some of these skills of writing and technology into the classroom in a meaningful way.
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ProPublica is hosting its first live event [2] this Wednesday, March 16 at 7:00pm at the New School’s Tishman Auditorium located on 66 W. 12th Street in New York City [3] . Seats are available on a first come, first served basis. Those interested can start lining up at 5:00pm. Doors will open for general seating at 6:30pm.
I finally had a chance to watch these videos of Ira Glass, of This American Life , and I’m quite sure my journalism students can learn a lot from them. If you’re trying to make stories using audio or video, you should watch them. Ira Glass on Storytelling #1 (5:23) Forget how they taught you to write stories in high school. Understand the anecdote and how to use it.
Teaching Online Journalism ? Storytelling, Ira Glass and a few thoughts
Let’s look at storytelling again. I always use this diagram to show students how to structure a very short video story or audio slideshow (120 seconds): Recently a student showed me this video, and I noticed that at about 1 min. 30 sec., it illustrates the story arc perfectly! The opening has elements that grab our attention (like any good opening): While we see and read the title (“The Annoying Orange”) at the 3-second mark, we hear a voice saying, “Hey, Apple!” This raises as many as three questions: Who is speaking?
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I spent the past two days playing host to Ken Speake , a master storyteller and a longtime journalist. We put him in front of as many students as we could without completely wearing him down to a nub, and it might have been the most valuable 50 minutes each of those students has spent all year. We have a lot of seasoned journalists come through and talk to our students. Ken stands head and shoulders above the pack because he is all about stories — not writing, not ego, not how I beat the other guy to this source, how I toppled the politician, saved the world, or won a prize. As I watched his packages and listened to him, I was struck alternately by how easy and how hard it is to tell a story well. Immediately after I introduced him to my own class, he started fitting a DVD into the computer and simultaneously saying, “A number of years ago I heard about this outfit that specialized in reattaching severed limbs .”
Teaching Online Journalism » The elements of storytelling
Teaching Online Journalism » Teaching about storytelling
As a follow-up to Tuesday’s post about getting a story (and teaching students about stories), I’m going to refer to three earlier posts here: What I learned from Ken Speake, a longtime TV journalist ( The elements of storytelling ) is that a really good storyteller can find a story almost anywhere — but more important, why is he able to do that? Because he’s curious about the world, about people, about things he sees. He’s not walking around thinking: “Damn, I have to find a story …” He’s thinking: “Wow, I wonder who made that? I wonder why she’s doing that? I wonder how that got here?”sans titre
Filmmakers and marketers continue to migrate toward one another because the key to their success is the same: story . On my first day in graduate film school at Columbia University, my professor—a lauded screenwriter—began his class by saying, "Known, unknown, unity," and then left the room. He was referring to the ideas of the late Joseph Campbell , a brilliant philosopher who created a basis for transcendent storytelling with a modern understanding of the power of mythology. For Campbell, the "myth" did not mean some yarn about gods and fantastical creatures. It referred, instead, to the basic pattern found in every timeless narrative. My professor's point, albeit dramatic, was clear: There is a narrative pattern—Campbell's " Monomyth "—that resonates supremely with humankind.
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Storytelling is an ancient practice, helping us to share our knowledge with context and emotion; we can share that tacit side of what we know. Storytelling triggers listeners to respond with other stories, building new understanding. Stories can capture and hold our attention, increasing the likelihood of hearing and learning. Storytelling is very valuable in our knowledge sharing work. Storytelling can be used in many different ways to use storytelling, as in these two examples, one from Sparknow Consulting (www.sparknow.net) and one from the Swiss Development Corporation (SDC). Pairs Storytelling - Sparknow
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Science is a story -- a story about ideas, but also a story about the remarkable people who devote their lives to unraveling the wonders of nature. Scientists themselves, however, rarely have a vessel to impart their personal wisdoms since the main outlet for scientific research -- peer-reviewed literature -- is typically devoid of narrative. Not so last Friday (June 12) night at the World Science Festival in New York City. Two Nobel Laureates, two neurobiologists, and two writers poured their hearts out to a packed room of showgoers at an event called Matter: Stories of Atoms and Eves, which was sponsored by The Moth, a nonprofit group that hosts storytelling slams.Check-ins, blog posts, tweets and likes — as the amount of social data exponentially multiplies, the emerging question is just how these ever-growing databases of personal experiences will be collectively organized (and shared). Memolane is a web-based ‘memory-management’ service – essentially a centralized digital scrapbook for all aspects of a user’s online identity. Linking with a host of expected services like Facebook, Twitter, Picasa and Foursquare (among others), the site also boasts the capability to backdate and upload (analog!) memories.
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If you need to make an argument about an issue about which you feel very strongly, don't use rhetoric. Tell a story instead . For a recent example, think of how Representative Keith Ellison spoke to the press before hearings convened by Representative Peter King to investigate the radicalization of American Muslims in the United States.
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Look at any of the videos on this site and you will see how some of the most varied and complex issues one can imagine were transformed into dramas — scenarios described by a moderator and worked through by panelists. Through this technique we witnessed how a President might deal with a threatened terrorist attack ( Bioattack ); how a war correspondent decides what is or isn’t news ( War Stories ); and what two Supreme Court Justices — Sandra Day O’Connor and Antonin Scalia – think of judicial elections ( Choosing Justice ). It can be riveting. And holding attention is essential — but not, in itself, the point.