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Viviane Reding, the EU telecoms commissioner, has warned operators to keep the cost of calls made on planes at a reasonable level. “If consumers receive shock phone bills, the service will not take-off.”
Joke not intended I assume – after all it’s a quote from an EU Commissioner.
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I am in Acton, training curators at the London Transport Museum to run Digital Storytelling Workshops. It involves taking them through a workshop to tell their own stories using personal narrative and photos from their own albums.
Today was a storycircle. That’s how they identify their story. At this stage it doesn’t have to be linked to transport but a surprising number are. A journey across the US by Greyhound, a car in search of purple fluffy dice (yes really), the driving instructors wart (honest) – all have transport links. There’s a story about blue shoes and another about a fondly remembered grandmother whose failing memory still held on to the many verses of the Lady of Shalott.
In the next few days these stories will take on a life of their own as they are turned into short TV films using digital technology – digital stories. In the process everyone will start to understand the skills that inspire others to tell their stories in the context of the transport museum.
Inspire is the key word. Technical skills are simple to master; inspiration is vital if people who may have written nothing more than a wishlist since leaving school are to gain the confidence forge their story into a script.
I love this work – and the stories I’m told in the workshops. What story would you tell? No more that 300 words.
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I have just downloaded Mars Edit to try it out as an offline Blog Editor.
I’m not inspired by the text editor built in to WordPress so I started to look for an alternative. I know Word 2007 for Windows has a blog function and having recently installed Office 2008 for the Mac I assumed it too would do the job. Sadly no such function. It doesn’t make sense does it?
I discovered this through a post on the Officeformac forum on the Microsoft Mactopia site. Usefully Daiya Mitchell replied to suggest two possible solutions. One of them Mars Edit.
The review that clinched it was to see Derrick Story’s recommendation “MarsEdit is a joy to use.” I rate Derrick’s judgement and regularly read his stuff on his “TheDigitalStory blog“.
So here it is – my first post from another planet so to speak.
I have six Mac Mini’s that I use in my digital storytelling workshops. Before each workshop when I update the software to the latest version one thing always impresses me. They are fast. I’m not talking about Intel Core 2 versions. They are three year old Power PC models with 1.42MHz processors.
Of course, they would be relatively slow on a benchmarking test, but they start quickly, open the iLife apps fast and generally get on with the job at a respectable pace. Continue reading