I love this concept, and it seems the MyWay interface is somewhat user-friendly, but I still can't imagine my own grandmother in her late eighties grasping it. In her assisted living complex - which tends to be a step above a nursing home in terms of the level of its residents' faculties - the computers are very rarely used at all. I'd venture to guess that in this video when the woman is learning the photo function of the site, it's not her first time learning it.

Produced at CCTV's Digital Storytelling workshop.

flickr photos by:
Eden_lys
Ziggiau
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Music by Gerard Satamian from magnatune.com

New from J-Lab's Knight Citizen News Network (KCNN):
Interviewing: A Practical Guide for Citizen Journalists

Here are links to some digital stories that have been created here in Cambridge in the past:

Passport to East Cambridge: Millie Centani
Passport to East Cambridge: Joao Marcos Macedo de Almeida
Passport to East Cambridge: Mary Poillucci

For more great examples, visit the story page at The Center for Digital Storytelling.

Thanks to my dad for pointing this article out to me:

http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12591038

Makes me wonder how far off our SMI Media Literacy sessions have been...

I've been doing some research for a Berkman project called Media Cloud, and I've come across a lot of sad little local news websites, even in big cities like Dallas, TX. Being small community papers and such, they're drastically under-funded, some of the sites not including any content at all other than contacts and advertising info. What I've found so far - and what I'm likely to continue to find even more of as I explore sites in even smaller markets - made me really appreciate this community and in particular, this website. read more...