Lisa Gjedde talked on ‘capturing the meaning in interactive storytelling’. There were elements of the project which appealed to me, particularly the thinking of a personal question, then casting the electronic runes and interpreting the resulting video in the light of your own question. However, I won’t be going to any papers by Lisa again.
Spent the morning on a really fun activity. We met up at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in John Know House on the Royal Mile. I was expecting the centre to be a backroom somewhere but it’s an entire, well resourced building about midway up the Royal Mile. Seeing as storytelling in England tends to be […]
Kirsten Price talked on ‘Narratives in New Zealand schools: a radical experiment’. She introduced an interesting DVD but the links with narratives felt tenuous. Harry Brenton is at Imperial and talked about ‘teaching dynamic medical processes using medical representations’ which was good but out of my field. Did make me think about how we understand […]
I found it amusing that most of the conference was in the St Trinneans Room at the halls of residence. Turns out it was the real St Trinians on which the cartoons and the films were based! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Trinians
Getting round to blogging more about the NILE conference. Paul Hazel from Swansea asked ‘are we justified in using narrative as a pedagogical tool?’ Paul seemed to be getting at the heart of what the conference was all about. He was one of the few people to define narrative and to consider what that definition […]
I took the ipaq out and took a lot of photos. Not necessarily good photos, but photos with a GPS fix. It may be good at latitude and longitude, but it’s lousy at altitude. For some reason, it thinks that this picture was taken at an altitude of 71 metres. It may be a small and […]