Three items today relating to stories about our tough economy: CNNMoney.com is running a series this week called “Stories from the Recession’s Frontline,” using Rhode Island (“a tiny state with big problems”) as the backdrop for these troubling narratives: We will tell the stories of the jobless returning to school … Continue reading
Author Archives: KatHansen
How to Guarantee You’ll Tell Stories in Your Presentation
Came across an idea that’s not new to me but is worth sharing. Karl Kapp suggested in a blog entry that to force presenters to tell stories instead of reading dry facts, stats, and bullet points from slides, use slides with no words — just images. I did that with … Continue reading
Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Twitter Followers
Over the weekend, my social-media-and-storytelling pal Thomas Clifford sent me eight Twitter followers. This influx of followers finally convinced me that I should follow all the folks who have been following me. So why wasn’t I following them earlier? It’s hard to explain. Ever heard of the FIRO-B assessment? Among … Continue reading
A Story-Based Activity Using Online Journalism
This story activity caught my eye because it appeared in the blog The South Jersey Line, and South Jersey is where I grew up. The South Jersey Line is by journalism professor Mark Berkey-Gerard, and it serves as a resource for students enrolled in his Online Journalism I course at … Continue reading
21st-Century Storytelling Alive and Well? The Sundance View vs. the MIT Media Lab View
Today is the last day of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the theme of which is “Storytime.” Although Storytime seems to be more about “the stories — from the screen and from the street — that make Sundance what it is” than about storytelling in films per se, Michelle Meyers, … Continue reading
Does Storytelling 2.0 Mean Open Story Loop?
OK, so technically I have not yet blogged about the concept of “Storytelling 2.0,”* but if you you follow storytelling, you know about Bryan Alexander’s and Alan Levine’s piece by that title in EDUCAUSE Review. Similarly, Lars Bastholm writes about “Social Storytelling,” which I would consider analogous — or at … Continue reading
Build a Story, Build a World?
Read an interesting, thought-provoking, lengthy blog post by Austin Kleon from last fall in which he equates storytelling with “world-building.” His argument reminded me of my musings from a few weeks ago in which I questioned whether digital storytelling is a genre or form of applied storytelling as opposed to … Continue reading
First Wordle of the Obama Era
Here’s this week’s word cloud/tag cloud from Wordle.net based on A Storied Career:
Storytelling Adds Human Touch to Virtual Work
I got interested in virtual teams and virtual work a few years ago when I learned that some of my former students felt that, while their business-school education had prepared them well to collaborate in face-to-face teams, it fell short in readying them to participate on geographically dispersed teams in … Continue reading
One Example of What a Lifestream Might Look Like … and a Bunch of Resources
Not long ago, I blogged about lifestreaming, the concept of aggregating various forms of one’s social-media participation into some sort of cohesive format, and thus into some semblance of a story about yourself. Apparently WordPress has a Lifestream plug-in (ahem, got anything like that, Movable Type?), which Mark Krynsky uses … Continue reading