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Telling our story is an essential part of our humanness. It allows us to feel part of the community that knows our story, and it fosters empathy for those that surround us. Story is a powerful force in shaping mental models, motivating and persuading others, and teaching the lessons of life. Telling story extends back to a time when oral history dominated the tools of communication. And now the flood of technology tools that allow for instant communication has spun us back into a golden age where story again dominates the media landscape.

In 1968, two researchers conducted a fascinating study that proved the extent to which teacher expectations influence student performance. Positive expectations influence performance positively, and negative expectations influence performance negatively. In educational circles, this has been termed the Pygmalion Effect, or more colloquially, a self-fulfilling prophecy. What has always intrigued me about this study is specifically what the teachers did to communicate that they believed a certain set of students had "unusual potential for academic growth." The research isn't overly explicit about this, but it indicates that the teachers "may have paid closer attention to the students, and treated them differently in times of difficulty." This begs the following questions: Why can't teachers treat all of their students like this? How do we communicate to students whether we believe in them or not?

Mission We surface authentic voices around the world through group process and participatory media creation. Our programs support people in sharing and bearing witness to stories that lead to learning, action, and positive change. What We Do For nearly twenty years, the Center has been supporting people in sharing meaningful stories from their lives. Our unique workshops assist participants in producing short, first-person narratives that can be presented in a variety of traditional and social media formats. We provide non-threatening production environments in which the process of creation is valued as much as the stories created. Through partnerships with a range of organizations, institutions, and funders, we offer story making and story distribution services that prioritize the power of individual voices. Whether you're interested in storytelling for professional development, as a reflective practice, as a pedagogical strategy, or as a vehicle for education, community mobilization, or advocacy, we are recognized globally as experts in all things digital storytelling.

Stories bring us together, encourage us to understand and empathize, and help us to communicate. Long before paper and books were common and affordable, information passed from generation to generation through this oral tradition of storytelling. Consider Digital Storytelling as the 21st Century version of the age-old art of storytelling with a twist: digital tools now make it possible for anyone to create a story and share it with the world.

Le site Guidedesfetes.com comme son nom l'indique est un site sur les fêtes et les jours fériés des différents pays des 5 continents. Il vous permettra de connaître les jours fériés ainsi que les dates des fêtes nationales, internationales ainsi que les fêtes religieuses avec une description détaillée de l'histoire de cette fête et des coutumes et traditions qui lui sont liées. Aussi, vous pouvez vous renseigner à partir du site Guidedesfetes.com des dates des jours des fêtes pour les années à venir ainsi que des fêtes traditionnelles et populaires qui sont propres à un pays donné ou commun entre plusieurs pays. En naviguant sur le portail des fêtes Guidedesfetes.com vous pouvez lancer votre recherche par pays ou en précisant la fête que vous cherchez à savoir et vous trouverez une description détaillée de la fête: type ( religieuse, nationale ou internationale), si c'est un jour férié ou non et la date de cette fête si évidemment elle tombe à une date fixe, en plus de l'histoire détaillée de la fête. Le portail Guidedesfetes.com est une base complète des fêtes et jours fériés des différents pays qui vous permettra de tous savoir sur les fêtes.

On lit, on clique pour indiquer qu'on avait la même impression ou pas... Un bon site pour la communication interprétative écrite... 

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Language life at UC Berkeley and beyond. Relfections on meaning, language use, cultural means of expression, status of languages, and more.