[digital storytelling project: students & elderly]

The Charlestown Digital Story Project teams UMBC students with residents of Charlestown Retirement Community to create digital stories. Drawn from the life experiences of the residents, the stories combine narration, animation, photos and music in short movies to be shared with others. Residents work closely with student partners, acting as author and creative director of their individual story. Each student brings their own style and talents to the project, helping to create some unique examples of intergenerational storytelling.

Over thirty stories have been produced to date. In 2007, the project was recognized with a

Bronze Telly Award.

The project is organized by the New Media Studio with funding from Retirement Living TV.

See a video about the project here.

There are also links to the stories on the above link.

[employment: podcast developer at UCL]

I haven't seen one of these positions at a university before. Pretty forward thinking of UCL even if it is only a year long pilot project. But, there is the implication, should the project go well, UCL will require a permanent podcast developer.

Podcast Service Developer

UCL Information Services Division

1 year post (ref 54260)

UCL has embarked on a project to assess the feasibility of setting up a service to record, store and then make lectures available for viewing or download. This is known as the Podcast Project.

The project will involve the re-encoding and publication of existing media into various publication environments, and the creation of portable and fixed capture stations that are integrated into the Podcast Producer environment. The project is for one year in the first instance.

We are looking for an IT professional to join the Applications Development team in ISD who develop and support e-learning and multimedia web-based applications. A key aspect of the role will be building work flows for Podcast Producer and Episode. The successful candidate will be able to communicate fluently and present technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences. This post could suit a new graduate with enthusiasm.

Salary will be on UCL salary scale 7 in the range of £31,620 to £38,250 per annum (inclusive of London Allowance).

Applications should be received no later than 5pm on close date.

Interviews are likely to be held on Tuesday, 9th December 2008.

To apply for the post, please download an application form and job description from ( http://www.ucl.ac.uk/is/vacancies. )

If you cannot obtain these from the web, you can email is-jobs@ucl.ac.uk quoting the relevant reference number (above), or write to Information Systems, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. Do NOT send a CV. For further queries, phone 020-7679-7357. No agencies.

Closing date for this post is 26 November 2008

[now...on to making something]

For my ph.d thesis I spent the whole time thinking about, interacting with, writing about, and reading web works. Now I'd like to start making something. Of course, I'm no writer and I don't consider myself creative but I have an idea...I'm going to *try* to create a hypertext version of a published essay (I won't say which yet but the author of the essay has agreed to the project)...I'd love to do something as visual as Adriene Jenik Mauve Desert: A CD-ROM Translation of Nicole Brossard's Le Désert Mauve.

There is so much more to learn...about manipulating images and sounds and video. Wow. If anyone has any tips on what I should be looking at and where...do lemme know (or e-mail if you prefer). I would like to become more adept with Flash...but suggestions are welcome.