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team launching a collaborative story (starting on Thursday 8 September) written in real time with readers following the story as it moves from blog to blog.

What is the Story of Stuff? From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view. The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.

"This pilot study sought to improve the vocational learning and literacy development of learners through the making of their own digital stories. The findings were that digital story telling supports vocational learning and literacy development, reflective conversations encourage deep learning, and collaboration fosters empathy and transformative learning."

Tell your story with maps

Excellent story of the journey to openness and the hugely positive difference it made to this leading photographers business and approach to life.

"As we near the halfway point in 2012, perhaps it's time to look back at some of the major stories, trends and developments in social media since the start of the year. Check out this neat infographic that highlights some of the biggest stories in social media, broken down month-by-month starting in January and ending in May. The infographic was created by NowSourcing, a social media firm based in Louisville, Ky."

Post by Dave Snowden on the poewer of story and narrative.

More back story stuff for digital literacy. Young Jewish girl accused of anti-Semitism when in fact following Jewish tradition. Framing of stories (in this case by right wing bloggers but could be by others) can affect our perception of online (and any) information. 

50 (digital) Ways to tell a story.

Practice your elevator pitch. Who, why, what?

Google site with stories of how to transform your business or work.

Amazing story of a blank canvas on Reddit and the art that was formed there over two days along with alliances and fueds. Worth reading.

The Edinburgh library paper sculptures - the story concludes.

Simple digital story telling tool

using Google Street View to launch story telling activity.

The story has been picked up by The Dominion!

Summify is a service that creates a periodic summary of the most relevant news stories, from all of your social networks, and delivers it by email and on the web.

Alice is an innovative 3D programming environment that makes it easy to create an animation for telling a story, playing an interactive game, or a video to share on the web. Alice is a teaching tool for introductory computing. It uses 3D graphics and a drag-and-drop interface to facilitate a more engaging, less frustrating first programming experience.

"An introduction of the basics of plagiarism and how to avoid it, told via a story of a student completing an assignment"

What a fake medical device tells us about the edtech snake oil purveyors.