Digital storytelling is a means of expressing ourselves that is both suitable to all and easy to adopt. It is a personal video that lasts max. a couple of minutes, and in a basic version all that is needed is a computer. Usually the video includes a text written and read out loud by the filmmaker, illustrated with personal photographs or drawings. It may also contain music that is either composed by the filmmaker themselves or not copyrighted.
Originally digitale was used in telling personal stories but this flexible method may also be applied to new purposes, such as strengthening social involvement or to social influencing in for example social work and libraries. Teachers may use digitale in order to empower their students and improve their media skills. However, it is important to define the limits for the subject beforehand; watching stories lasting over three minutes could easily be quite a boring experience for the viewer.
Examples can be found online: The Center for Digital Storytelling community (www.storycenter.org), the European Digitales project (www.digi-tales.org) and on these websites (some of them are in English). A presentation video available here. This subproject inspires creative, social script writing via the Internet. During the project an online tool is developed; this tool supports and guides scripting, as well as offers methods and teaching materials for the different stages of the writing process. Training for using the tool and methods is offered to interested groups. With the tool, a group of youngsters will write a script under the guidance of a dramaturge-teacher. A presentation will be produced of the script; this is then presented in Studio Pasila of Helsinki City Theatre in August 2010. After the project, the tool will be available to all online. Flossmanuals is an international network (www.flossmanuals.net), whose goal is to lower the threshold for using programs with open source codes by producing clear and simple instruction manuals for them in various languages. Medios project implements the Finnish versions of the manuals, expands the user network of the programs and organizes training for various target groups. The goal is root down the use of software among the curriculums in the field of media, the citizens' media points and actors in the field of culture and organization. Special emphasis is laid on combining open programs with the production process of social media.
Mediakulttuuriyhdistys m-cult ry is responsible for implementing the Flossmanuals. | Panel |
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| - Saija Heinonen, project manager
saija.heinonen@metropolia.fi
Tel.+358-40-184 9197 - Sonja Merisalo, project planner
sonja.merisalo@metropolia.fi - Eeva Meltio, project producer
eeva.meltio@metropolia.fi
Tel. +358-(0)40-189 3096 - Emma Puikkonen, dramaturge-teacher
emmakanerva@gmail.com - Anitta Pankkonen, koulutuspäällikkö, Metropolia
anitta.pankkonen@metropolia.fi - Kari Rentola, Deputy Artistic Director, Helsinki City Theatre
kari.rentola@hkt.fi - Mirja Neuvonen, education manager, Helsinki City Theatre
mirja.neuvonen@hkt.fi - Minna Tarkka, director, m-cult
minna.tarkka@m-cult.org - Tomi Toivio, open source -coordinator, m-cult
tomi.olavi.toivio@gmail.com
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