The Writing Our Lives project is open to Nottingham students interested in exploring their lives through inquiry projects, self-exploration, ethnography, technology, and writing. The goals of this project are to encourage high school students to explore their community, their lived experiences, and their growing voices as students, writers, ethnographers, and critical thinkers.

Monday, March 15, 2010

An Invitation

An Introduction: Marcelle and Bryan

Defining Ethnography

About “Writing our Lives”

The Writer’s Notebook

Planting The Seeds of Personal Interests

Modeling Digital Writing

Sample One

Sample Two

Sample Three

Sample Four

Spoken Work/Performance Pieces

What We Need From You

As part of my new learning at Syracuse University, I began playing around with the possibilities of using digital storytelling to make sense of my post-Kentucky learning.  Specifically, I tried to teach myself how to podcast and write a digital story through assignments given to me in my coursework.

Thinking about this, I realize there were three steps:  My poetic doodles, my attempt at a podcast for what visual thinking sounds like, and then with a project I dedicated to James A’Kech Mangui.

1. Comstock & Hocks

2. Digitial Podcasts

A. What is a pod-cast?

B. A trip to I-Tunes

C. The Wonderful World of Free Stories.

1. Jan Baetens and Comic Strip Writing

2. Calvin & Hobbes

3. Outside of the Box Thinking