Democracy in Action Wales have launched a fantastic photo competition. Get snapping!
Here’s another great story site for you to take a look at. Smallpox1962 tells the story of the outbreaks of Smallpox in Britain in 1962, with particular emphasis on the impact of the disease in Wales.
Fellow Digital Storytellers, Breaking Barriers Community Arts have launched a great new website. We love the new look!
I love this site from Aber Uni, Media and the Memory, which takes a look back at the golden age of television in Wales, capturing people’s memories of what TV has meant for them (via @Digitalst)
The Digital Human series on Radio 4 has been excellent. I thoroughly recommend that you iplayer it!
GEECS Resources
Have you checked our resources page recently? It’s often updated with lots of fun and clever things to help us achieve more and better using the internet!
From ways to use Pinterest, and help to create beautiful CVs through to tips on storytelling, there’s bound to be something of interest there for you!
Digital Storytelling training with a lovely group trough Bron Afon’s Tech New Age initiative. There are some utterly fabulous stories sitting around this room!
Hurrah! Here’s our fourth Outreach Worker, Ru McLaren. Ru has joined us to cover the Bridgend, Swansea & Neath Port Talbot patch of the Communities 2.0 project.
With a background in digital inclusion work, Ru is set to make a big contribution to the team. We’re really looking forward to working together as a bigger team to help increase our impact around the digital inclusion agenda.
Welcome on board Ru :)
I ‘attended’ a webinar during lunch today by Esther Barrett of RSC Wales on Storytelling using Technology.
It was a really useful seminar, covering lots of useful resources. These, the recording and presentation, are now available here: http://moodle.rsc-wales.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=266 I urge you all to watch!
