Bernajean’s Namaste Blogging

Ramapo NY Digital Storytelling

Tue, 1 Apr 2008 09:28:27 -0600

For those of us who are external consultants, nothing pays in gold like opportunities to work directly with students. Peg Sheehy, Kevin Jarrett and myself seredipitiously found ourselves conjuuring up an extrodinary experience - introducing Suffern Middle School students to digital storytelling via Robert Frost’s Road NOT Taken. The students were challenged find their own visual story of a time th

Global Kids Digital Media Essay Winners

Mon, 3 Mar 2008 09:36:19 -0700

Here is an ongoing field of stories being created by kids to express their worlds. Enjoy! Bernajean Youth Testimonials - Digital Media Essay Contest In early 2006, Global Kids held their first Digital Media Essay Contest to encourage teenagers to think critically about the role of digital media in their lives. Of the 133 essays submitted, 14 winners were selected: Essay 1: Thanks, Uncle Ben by

Stories Need to Lead Image Choices

Fri, 9 Nov 2007 09:06:28 -0700

While there are many artistic ways to approach the use of images that have value and help students master visual literacy, digital storytelling focuses the students to rely on their narrative STORY driving their image choices rather than images driving the story. Many of us have experienced a number of free software products that were originally developed for families to produce easy “slide show

Chaos and Creativity

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:03:04 -0600

We live in interesting times . . . a time when having the fortitude for self-perturbation skills can serve us well. Time for us to choose ON PURPOSE to activate our hopes, ride the urgent demands for our time with intention to new places, and focus the unlimited ways our gifts can serve the world. The increase speed of events these days seem to be felt everywhere. As I work with colleagues on th

DigiTales Summer Camp 2008

Mon, 6 Aug 2007 16:50:46 -0600

I just finished another incredible mountain camp held just outside of Estes Park this past week. This is the third annual with next year already being planned for July 18-23, 2008! What a joy to work with this year’s group of DigiTales Campers! While the group was small - they represent 5 states leaders from district and regional services agencies along with almost half the group being college pro