Like all methods of learning and teaching, storytelling grapples with accelerating cultural and digital transformation. And time zones. I’ll improvise a digital Networked Narrative, or, Exquisite Corpse. Some storytellers will be live, some recorded, and all woven into a mettisage narrative of the near future. As Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie noted, the danger of a single story lies in its incompleteness; métissage counters this by weaving together multiple narratives to honor both unity and diversity.
Join us to discover possible futures of digital storytelling and share your stories in the comments and with your own favorite media.
I’ll be blogging at https://connectingislearning.
Session Resources:
Bryan’s blog: Bryan Alexander | Futurist, educator, speaker, writer, and Georgetown bio: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/0033600001rcq9iAAA/bryan-alexander.
Joe’s bio: https://www.storycenter.org/staff, and new project: https://www.storyhost.net/.
Mark’s bio: About Mark, and new Ghost site: https://connectingislearning.com.
Let’s Play Brand Actualization: Selling Out the Open Web
Capitalism and the open web: can these two concepts ever be united? We’ll answer that together as we play Brand Actualization, a role-playing game designed to bring catharsis to anyone who’s ever sat through a terrible meeting and wondered why the hell they were asked to be there.
Develop your employee persona, a character with strong beliefs like “Geometry is authentic”, “I see faces in abstract patterns”, and “I don’t want to be in this meeting.” Then take part in an easy-breezy, totally one hundred percent conflict-free rebranding meeting where everyone gives their honest professional opinion on an extremely important topic: how do we sell the Open Web to eldritch gods?
Per the rules, the meeting (and the game) end after one hour, or after a fight breaks out. But surely that won’t happen.
The game is designed for 6-10 participants; please contact meeting facilitator Pilot Irwin if you’re interested. The meeting facilitator will provide a copy of the rules for anyone who signs up.
How to join
Join via this link https://reclaimhosting.whereby.com/community-chat
This social session takes place in Whereby, and you don’t need to download an app as it’s a browser based platform.
Session Resources:
- Brand Actualization, by Fen Slattery.
- “BREATHTAKING Design Strategy“, the document that inspired the game.
- Brand Actualization Rules PDF
An Archivist goes to the Playground – Exploring and Describing Chicago Park Playgrounds
I’m been working on a project to visit, document, and describe all Chicago Park playgrounds. Started during the COVID-19 pandemic, this project has blossomed into a site (running on Omeka S) that explores Chicago Park playgrounds using data from the Chicago Data Portal.
LIVE Remix is #4Life: Why we all love the Daily Create and you should too
The Daily Create (TDC) is a creative challenge that is published every day at 5am EST, free and open to all. For many years the link to the day’s challenge was tweeted to the #DS106 hashtag, nowadays it toots to the same hashtag on Mastodon, where we Daily Creators still participate and riff off each other. Some of us complete the TDC every day, others dip in and out from time to time. There are no prizes, and no sanctions. The only rule is to MAKE ART, DAMMIT!
Join us, a group of regular and irregular Daily Creators, as we chat about all things TDC. In this session we’ll talk about many things. Likely topics will be:
- Motivations for participation in the daily create
- The echoes involved when one person riffs on someone else or a previous response
- The theory of remix and bricolage that underpins these types of practices
- What an affinity group is, and how this might explain the connections that are built in remix activities
- How the TDC is a gateway into digital literacy, with free and open resources
We will also each introduce some of our favourite challenges from past daily creates to give a flavour of why we keep returning to participate in the TDC.
Finally, we would like to take the opportunity to issue an open invitation to everyone to join us in the open and participate in future daily creative activities. But beware – #DS106 is #4Life!
Session Resources:
https://daily.ds106.us/