Monday, June 21, 2010

Studio Bastille "Word Cloud"

The text, taken from Studio Bastille's website page "Qui sommes nous ?", is shown here as a "word cloud" that highlights key terms ... en francais !

Thursday, June 17, 2010

"What's YOUR story?" ... storytelling via videos

On the shatterbox website their tagline is "Stories of innovative young people who love what they do. Watch. Interact." See an example here.

So I'm wondering if we might not just "piggy-back" on their approach and consider having the IIME Workshop Participants [henceforth I'll call then WSPs ;-) ] create short vidoes to "tell their own µ story".

My initial thinking here is:

  • It's an innovative (and powerful) way to do "story-telling" 
  • If the WSPs just watch a video on shatterbox they'll get the idea ... and get motivated
  • Pre-workshop we can help them with an  EASY, FREE way for them to make a quality video (I can sign-up to research this)
  • Videos could perhaps be used in dissemination and as "proof" of the IIME project impact (thereby bettering our odds for future projects)
Y'all let me know what you think!

Cheers,
José

Some supporting links:

Change of mind ... or heart

I just got to wondering about where to put "stray" thoughts about this IIME workshop we are charged with creating. Especially as September, when we will each "Show & Tell" [1], is rapidly approaching.

So, I propose to start adding regular (if not daily) posts to indicate resources and avenues we might pursue. The first one will be about "piggy-backing" on the approach used by shatterbox.


Cheers, 
José

PS: If followers like Barbara (or others) want to and cannot add posts please let me know so we can figure out autorizations, etc. 

[1] At Mobility #3 we said "In the next meeting in Germany we will try things out on each other" ... a scary statement at first blush, but one that should focus us on building top-notch "modules".