Preparing for ‘Story Hack’
Tomorrow, I’m helping facilitate Story Hack, a kind of book sprint at Gateshead Central Library. It’s part of a series of events funded by Arts Council England called STORY MODE:
Story Mode is a series of events that actively explore the role that Libraries play in their communities via a critical engagement with contemporary creative digital practices and how this activity can enable Libraries to grow in capacity and profile.
It presents new ways of working by presenting experiences and approaches from local, national and international practitioners. Story Mode events will connect Libraries to current engagement practices in contemporary visual, digital and narrative arts.
We’ll be using Sourcefabric’s Booktype platform to collaborate on during the day. Facilitators have been asked to curate relevant Creative Commons-licensed (or public domain) text for remixing, as well as to prepare a short, 15-minute talk about their work.
In terms of the focus of the day, we’ve been given the following prompt:
The advent of collaborative online platforms for journalists, writers and visual artists has had a profoundly disruptive effect upon the nature of traditional media and how we access it. This situation raises more questions than it answers. Questions like: Do digital platforms have the same aura and appeal as physical media? Does the truth matter anymore? Who should we give our attention to and why?
Thankfully, my network is filled with professionally-generous people. The following are just 10 of those whose work I can confidently and openly share with others in relation to the above prompt:
- Alan Levine
- Amy Burvall
- Audrey Watters
- Bryan Mathers
- Catherine Cronin
- Cory Doctorow
- Harold Jarche
- Kat Braybrooke
- Laura Hilliger
- Martin Weller
In terms of my own work, I’m going to use five links to describe what I’ve worked on over the last five years:
- http://neverendingthesis.com
- http://digitalliteraci.es
- http://openbadges.org
- https://learning.mozilla.org/web-literacy
- http://weareopen.coop
I’m going to learn a lot tomorrow, and see myself as much as a participant as I am a facilitator!
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