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Blackfoot Oral Stories Database brought to life by ii’ taa’poh’to’p grant

Digital Storytelling, Diversity, Education, Story Collections and Sources, Storytelling It's News! / July 11, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

UToday, University of Calgary June 24, 2019 In the Blackfoot tradition, stories are shared as a way to document history and to teach important life lessons. Siksika Elder and Horn Society member Natóóhkitopi Fred Breaker tells us, “Our culture is centred around an oral tradition, and our people learn orally, through storytelling. The stories were […]

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Classcraft Launches Storytelling Series for Student Engagement

Digital Storytelling, Storytelling It's News! / July 11, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

The Journal June 24, 2019 At International Society for Technology in Education ISTE 2019 this week in Philadelphia, ed tech company Classcraft is launching a new “Story Mode” series, which uses storytelling to help teachers engage and motivate students. The series of ready-made stories begins with Classcraft: Season 1, a year-long adventure story that explores themes of self-discovery

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Storytelling in data science

Business, Storytelling It's News! / July 11, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

BusinessWorld July 3, 2019 With the unprecedented increase in the amount of data that businesses create, the potential value from data also increases. However, we can only realize the value of data when the insights we derive move people into action. The question is: How exactly can we do that? To move people into action,

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How blowing into a straw can save your voice

Healing, Medical, Storytelling It's News!, Training & Mentoring / July 11, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Vox June 20, 2015 Diana Orbelo, a speech-language pathologist at the Mayo Clinic who helps people with voice problems, offers much advice for those with problem voices and for those who are over-using their voices. Other experts offer videos which demonstrate exercises all storytellers can benefit from — exercises which “rebalance and recoordinate the vocal mechanism”

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The Power of Sharing Stories

Education, Healing, Storytelling It's News! / July 11, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Uplift March 21st, 2019 This article sites many ways in which storytelling can improve your mental health: Storytelling and our sense of self Telling happy stories improves your well being Creating stories and then acting them out helps children understand themselves storytelling is at the heart of health care examples of the healing power or

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Program of teens’ stories focus of new book

Diversity, Education, Healing, Personal Storytelling, Pro-Sig, Storytelling It's News! / June 29, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Times Union, Albany, NY May 24, 2019 Since 2006, Children at the Well (C@W http://www.childrenatthewell.org ) has brought teens from the Capital Region of New York State together to share their stories. Now the group has published a book so other educators and organizations can incorporate storytelling into their worlds using the C@W method. “Our

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Ditch the grammar and teach children storytelling instead

Education, Storytelling It's News! / June 22, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

The Guardian May 19, 2017 Storytelling must be taught – it is more than simply an art – it is a crucial skill for life and commerce. People say children are natural storytellers, but this is not at all true, any more than it is of adults. Or rather, they are not naturally good storytellers.

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Arts teaching could become more important than maths in tech-based future

Education, Storytelling It's News! / June 3, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

The Stage London, UK February 27, 2019 Researcher Andreas Schleicher, who is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading educational thinkers, said that too narrow a curriculum could also make young people less prepared for the demands of the future. He said British schools largely regard skills as inferior to knowledge, and can be

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Children can go on space adventure in science and storytelling

Applied Storytelling, Education, Story Collections and Sources, Storytelling It's News! / June 3, 2019 / By Producers & Organizers SIG

Lancashire Post February 25, 2019 A spokesman for the We Share the Same Moon event said: “Join Storyteller Cassandra Wye and Astronomer Megan Argo on an amazing science and storytelling adventure – to the Moon and back. “It celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Lunar Landing through Science and Story. “The event will start with

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NSN Policy of Engaged Neutrality

National Storytelling Network, NSN Blog, NSN News / May 28, 2019 / By Danni

Policy of Engaged Neutrality It is from NSN’s Values — Responsive Innovation, Cultural Awareness and Engagement, Inclusion, Collaboration, and Integrity — that we draw the following policy: The National Storytelling Network will not organizationally articulate or otherwise provide support for or opposition to any specific candidate for office, legislation (pending or finalized), or policy, apart

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