FAI, Italian Fund for the Environment, rewards the digital story made by the class 5D of the G. Mameli primary school from Recco (GE)

The winner of the “Scegli l’Italia” contest, promoted by FAI (Italian Fund for Environment), has been announced. The winning story was created in Recco following the trail of the IdigStories – Stories Educational Learning Facilities, and won the national prize dedicated to primary schools.
The teachers arranged a didactic trip in search of the beauty of Italy, dedicating particular attention to innovative routes, capable of truly telling the story of the places to visit, through experience and actively involving the students.
Last year the class visited the Walls of Barbarossa and the Towers of Porta Soprana in Genoa, and showed genuine curiosity and interest for the story of these places.
This is the reason why, after a short time, Coop Zoe offered the teacher an insight activity regarding the Idig Stories project.
This is how the Let’s find out more about the Walls of Barbarossa in Genoa video was done. The children became the narrators of their own experience, going over the story of the places they visited and telling it by using the photos they took and the 3d models created during the prearation of the video.
The FAI assigned the first award to their video because of the objectives accomplished by the class during the multidisciplinary work of producing and editing the digital story, which allowed the children to perform didactic activities in order to create props for their video, the production of which was also handled by them.

As promised, we are keeping this platform alive. The last contributions we received allowed us to open a new video section, dedicated to the video which have been produced by learners and organizations who received and follows the lesson-learnt from the project “I DIG STORIES- Stories Educational Learning Facilities”. The first three videos to open the section have been produced in 2016 by Claudia Guidi, who was at that time the communication officer of Coirag Torino.
If you want to have your digital storytelling videos published, please download the guide and the toolkit, use our digital storytelling training tools, create your story and share with us.

The most practical way to realize the power & the potential of the digital storytelling, its effects on ourselves & on others, is to experience it.
The project “I dig stories – stories educational learning facilities” offers a direct approach to the methodological & experiential view of digital storytelling.

Digital storytelling is a wonderful narrative, plastic and flexible tool, adaptable and applicable to various different contexts such as educational, didactic, clinical and community work.  The partnership is composed by Diciannove and ZOE (ITA), Danmar computers (POL), Anthropolis (HUN), Vardakeios (GRE) and Liverpool World Centre (UK).

The project has elaborated and made available to all:

• OER – OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE PLATFORM  where you can find all
  the materials implemented during the project
• METHODOLOGICAL GUIDE TO DIGITAL STORYTELLING  – Training Manual
  for Digital Storytelling Workshops – Available in Free Download Here
• THE TOOLKIT – A PRACTICAL ‘SHORTCUT’ GUIDE TO RUNNING A DST
  WORKSHOP – available for free download here
• a vast selection of videos produced over the last two years in the various workshops developed in several European countries.

With the achievements of the “iDigStories” project, you can now enter the world of digital storytelling with a simple click:

• visit the project site at www.idigstories.eu
• download for free all the training materials
• contact us & follow the next developments of the project, which wil continue even after the formal project deadline to nurture an interested
• community & to share experiences on digital storytelling and its areas,
• practical tips, methodological guidance, and videos

Each person has his own story, his own inner narrative, which is always precious, never banal.  It is often silent. Digital storytelling is a way to free these narrations.  We hope to offer you the tool freely to accompany you to free your stories.

For any further request or information, you can contact me through this
blog, or directly to:
Mail: idigstories@19.coop

Web: www.idigstories.eu

The “I dig stories – stories educational learning facilities” project was funded with the support of the European Commission. The authors are solely responsible for the publications contained in the site of the project; The Commission declines any responsibility for the use which may be made of the information contained therein.

Project number: 2015-1-EN02-KA204-015181 – CUP: B43J15000080006
Any material contained in the site of the project is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), unless otherwise specified”

The “I dig stories” project came to its conclusion. For all participating partners, it was a fantastic and wonderful adventure where we learned to use digital storytelling as a new method of work. We’ve tested it on us and our colleagues. We have developed the first complete Guide to digital storytelling methodology. We applied the lesson-learnt in many workshop that partners run in several European countries.

We received valuable advices from those who participated to the workshops. We built the toolkit with these feedback, in order to foster the practical application of digital storytelling, so that others can develop and conduct their own digital storytelling workshops. In the process, we produced over 40 videos, and we posted online all that have been authorized by the authors. We have gone through this process of work with many of you, and we would like to thank you: thanks to the more than 10.000 people who followed us on the EOR platform and our social media.

Thanks to over 2.000 people who downloaded the methodology guide and the toolkit. Thanks to the hundreds of wonderful people of all ages and many different cultures who participated to the workshops and the multiplier events across Europe. Thanks to the ones who is asking us to continue the adventure and to launch new workshops in our territories. The project officially closed on August 31, but our adventure will continue. If you are interested in learning and deepening the application of digital storytelling, if you want to develop workshops in your area, please contact us: all project partners will be happy to
arrange a training with you. On our side, we will continue to post, share and offer the results of our work to foster the diffusione and dissemination of digital storytelling.
Last but not least, a special thank to all the colleagues and partners for the wonderful and amazingly successful learning experience that we shared.

On Friday 30th June 2017, a workshop on digital storytelling was organized by Diciannove as a part of the dissemination of the iDigStories project.

We thank the many participants for their enthusiasm and interest in further development of the possibilities and applications of digital storytelling. See you soon

Discover the digital storytelling as an educational tool and download the methodological guide and the toolkit from www.idigstories.eu so that you can organize your own digital story telling workshop.

The workshop is organized within the frameworks of the dissemination of the outputs of the project Eramsus+IDigStories and is addressed at teachers and trainers of formal and non-formal education.

Sign up until 9 th June at: 2281088089 or 6936497398 Or at: vardakeios@gmail.com

Participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance

Danmar Computers, as a partner in IDigStories project, would like to invite you to the digital storytelling workshop, that will take place on 30^th June at 12:00, in Hotel Ambasadorski (Rzeszów). The aim of this workshop is to show the importance of digital stories as well as possibilities of their implementation. Along with the project methodology and results, we will present some of the stories created within the project. The workshop is part of the activities aimed to spread the results of the Erasmus+ project
“i Dig Stories – stories educational learning facilities”.

For more information write us at: danmar@danmar-computers.com.pl

Participants will receive the Certificate of Attendance

Digital storytelling as a tool of knowledge and cohesion

We are eager to invite you to the digital storytelling workshop that’s going to take place on the 22nd of June at 4 pm in the Centro Allende in La Spezia.
The aim of this workshop is to share with you the experience gathered during the european project IDigStories – stories educational learning (occhio che manca una “a” anche nella versione italiana) facilities and to explore the potentiality of digital storytelling when used by different kinds of participants: may they be a single person or a group, adults or children.
During this meeting various stories born through this work will be presented, our experiments, the story of a class, the narration of a village dealing with its traditions and the stories, real and made-up, that have been realised musselers who were influenced by the photos of the archive of the Friendly Society Unione Fraterna.

The archive, that was recently digitalised, will be presented during the meeting, at the end of which the participants will be able to request some images to create their story with.

The workshop is part of the activities aimed to spread the results of the european project “i Dig Stories – stories educational learning facilities”.