Thursday, November 30, 2006
First Workshop Completed!
Yesterday we finished the first train the trainer workshop in Vilanova i la Geltrú. A total of seven people (all women!) completed digital stories and began plans to bring the process to their public health and youth work. They were a pleasure to work with, and it was interesting to see how similar the process was despite the context. The screening was lovely, people were pretty amazed by how their pieces came out and how the personal aspect came through in all despite initial resistance.
One participant has already uploaded her story, take a look here!
http://www.blip.tv/file/108126
As always, it was a bit stressful at the end, and there are a few folks who want to do a bit more work on their pieces. I think we're going to have a follow up day some time next week to let people put finishing touches on and review some of the trickier aspects.
Unfortunately, the computers didn't behave as well as I would have liked. But, on the other hand, I've seen worse. Nothing too prohibitive, just a bunch of slowness.
And, on completely different note, I had a funny exchange with the guy who works at my gym Tuesday. He was making me my swipe card, and said, "you only have one last name?!" And I explained that's how it was in the US, a bit sad. He said, "no no no, your president, that is sad. This is just different."
Yesterday we finished the first train the trainer workshop in Vilanova i la Geltrú. A total of seven people (all women!) completed digital stories and began plans to bring the process to their public health and youth work. They were a pleasure to work with, and it was interesting to see how similar the process was despite the context. The screening was lovely, people were pretty amazed by how their pieces came out and how the personal aspect came through in all despite initial resistance.
One participant has already uploaded her story, take a look here!
http://www.blip.tv/file/108126
As always, it was a bit stressful at the end, and there are a few folks who want to do a bit more work on their pieces. I think we're going to have a follow up day some time next week to let people put finishing touches on and review some of the trickier aspects.
Unfortunately, the computers didn't behave as well as I would have liked. But, on the other hand, I've seen worse. Nothing too prohibitive, just a bunch of slowness.
And, on completely different note, I had a funny exchange with the guy who works at my gym Tuesday. He was making me my swipe card, and said, "you only have one last name?!" And I explained that's how it was in the US, a bit sad. He said, "no no no, your president, that is sad. This is just different."
