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 confined to the upstairs rooms in pubs or to one-off events, this is even more impressive.

Anyway, we split into three groups and went for storytelling walks along the Royal Mile, taking digital photos as we went. Then we returned to base, shared stories and impressions and made a collage of the experience.

This seemed to tie in very well with Gill’s mobile learning. You can see the possibility for creating a really rich resource about the Royal Mile with different histories and stories and perspectives available at every point. Layer upon layer of different perspectives.

Also it made me think about why some stories/narratives endure. If a major role of narrative in education is to help us to remember things, then which stories help us to remember best? Which elements are the most important? Do we tend to remember things which make us uneasy?