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The Vancouver Sun asks: Can Technology Improve Literacy Skills?
Last week The Vancouver Sun‘s digital life writer Gillian Shaw approached Erica Hargreave to discuss the effect technology is having on literacy skills. An issue often discussed in the Ahimsa Media office and, it would seem, many other offices too. Gillian’s article went to press on Saturday, and it was fascinating to read the full…
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Back to School With Ahimsa Media – An Interactive Classroom This Fall
It never fails, since my third birthday the autumn still means it time to head back into the classroom for me, some more conventional, some a little less so. This is probably why in my mind the year runs from September to June and the new year starts for me afresh every September. With a…
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Exciting Times for Media
Times are a changing in the Media World and we are highly excited by some of the most recent evolutions. Particularly here in Canada where the new Canadian Media Fund (CMF) has been announced bringing in an experimental element. This is a perfect opportunity for members of the digital media community to get funding and…
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A New Classroom & Course for the New Year
Photo from The Hague’s Nationaal Archief I’m excited to be embarking on a new educational adventure this year! My new classroom will be in the Broadcast Communication Program at BCIT and the Continuing Studies Department at Capilano University. At both schools I will be teaching Interactive Storytelling. Not completely sure, but I do think these…
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All in the Name of Literacy
Our sincerest of apologies to the Vancouver Community for any over-inflation we may have done to the following individuals egos, by placing them in a calendar, entitled Reading is Sexy: Monique Trottier – @somisguided Lori & Richard Yearwood Patrick Tubajon – @iheartgudrun Raul Pacheco-Vega – @hummingbird604 Ian A Martin – @atomicfez Rayne Lorraine Murphy –…
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Brands Can Be Storytellers too!
A common misconception that we encounter with people when we tell them that we are interactive storytellers is that we create dynamic stories for children or that we strictly work with traditional stories in the form of books, movies, television series and films to make their stories more dynamic and interactive. This is a myth…
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Back to School With Kontent
Summer is winding down, and with it my days of zaniness. Time to buckle down to more serious matters, like interactive storytelling! Excited to be a part of Kontent Creative’s Summer School with a workshop on Interactive Brand Storytelling: Creating Interactive Brand Stories Tuesday, September 1, 2009 at 7pm – 9pm No matter how many…
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Making Twitter History in Yorkton, Saskatchewan
A very cool thing happened to us at this years Yorkton Film Festival. We hit the ‘top ten trending twitter topics’! Now I know what some of you are thinking, so what, we do that all the time at various events here in Vancouver. Well, what made this hit on the ‘top ten trending twitter…
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The Yorkton Film Festival Goes Interactive
Most excited to be heading off to the Yorkton Film Festival this week with Tris Hussey (from m2o) and Emme Rogers. The three of us, along with locals, Richard Gustin, Karen Brownlee, and Lee Robertson will be demoing Interactive Storytelling to the Festival by telling the Festivals story through tweets, snapping pics, blogging and possibly…
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Launching Ahimsa Media 2.0
Welcome everyone to the new and improved Ahimsa Media!! As many of you are aware, Ahimsa Media has been undergoing some changes over the past year and a half, shifting our focus from Traditional Broadcast and Video Production to New, Social and Emerging Media Storytelling and we are loving it! In the busyness, it’s taken…