Some encouraging news in the world of using story in teaching and learning… The Washington Post recently featured The Story of Science series of textbooks for middle-schoolers by Joy Hakim. The Post’s Valerie Strauss reports that the series: tells the history of science with wit, narrative depth and research, all … Continue reading
Author Archives: KatHansen
Second Life, Story, and Innovation
Claudia L’Amoureaux, education community developer for Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life, is one of the presenters at Storytelling, a Path to Innovation, an event in the Washington, DC, storytelling weekend planned for May 8-10. In an interview with Steve Denning, L’Amoureaux discusses innovation and learning in the “metaverse,” … Continue reading
Tell Your Story in Comic Strip Form
Stephanie West Allen turned me onto a cool site called Bitstrips where you can create your own comics. Great for telling stories! I created a sort of alter ego I call Kat Story, above.
Storytelling and Dream Interpretation
How can storytelling help you interpret your dreams? A new piece of research by Teresa DeCicco reveals a technique. In her article, “What is the Story Telling? Examining Discovery with the Storytelling Method (TSM) and Testing with a Control Group,” in the academic journal Dreaming, DeCicco notes that her research … Continue reading
An Old Friend Advocates Storytelling in the Job Search
Like many people, I had one of my first introductions into the world of job-hunting through Richard Bolles’ perennial bestseller, What Color is Your Parachute? My earliest memory of this influential book is when I was participating in a job club in Knoxville, TN, in the 1970s. Something I read … Continue reading
Boomer Stories
Boomoirs is a site to collect and share the stories of baby boomers. Discovering the site — through Stephanie West Allen — was timely because my husband and I were just having a discussion about the new social-networking site for “boomers,” BoomJ, which has publicized a demographic group we’ve never … Continue reading
Tell Your Career Story!
I’m looking for 10 people to profile on 10CareerStories.com and have a bunch of questions. Looking for folks in these categories: Teenager/high-school student planning a career College student seeking career New college grad Twentysomething worker seeking more meaning in your career MBA/grad student seeking job Mid-career changer seeking a new … Continue reading
Storymaker: New Tool for Digital Storytelling
StoryMaker describes itself as a simple tool for creating digital stories. Using audio, pictures and text you can create storyboards, slideshows and much much more. To create your own StoryMaker file, just click on the ‘Create a new StoryMaker file’ button below and follow the instructions that follow. You will … Continue reading
Storytelling Art in My Backyard
Through May 1, the Art League of Daytona Beach has an exhibit called Storytellers featuring the work of five women artists whose works share strong narrative qualities, according to curator Robin Moore, as quoted by Laura Stewart in the Daytona Beach News Journal.
Our Final Story: Updated
Decided to add to my original entry below about obituaries when I read Joanna Moorehead’s story in The Guardian about German photographer Walter Schels who thinks it not only odd, but wrong that death is so hidden from view. Aged 72, he’s also keenly aware that his own death is … Continue reading