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Archiving Community Storytelling: Challenges and Opportunities: 13th March 2015

As part of Digital Commonwealth project, the team have hosted a number of community media meet-ups focusing on the opportunities and challenges afforded through the use of new technologies for digital storytelling within a community development setting in Scotland. Next Friday on the Paisley Campus of the University of the West of Scotland, in partnership with the…

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Digital Commonwealth featured as case study in Creative Citizens’ Variety Pack.

After being included at the first Creative Citizen’s conference on the 18th-19th September at the Royal College of Art in London, we were approached by Dr Dan Lockton to contribute to the Creative Citizens’ Variety Pack that brought together case studies of inspiring digital ideas from community based project.

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So what have we been up to this summer?

So it’s been a month since the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games came to a close and the flag was passed to the Australian Gold Coast for 2018. It’s been all go at the Digital Commonwealth office as we begin to pull together all the finished content from our 57 schools, over 200 community media participants…

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Handbook of Digital Storytelling

The Digital Commmonwealth team have been working on producing a resource which helps people develop digital storytelling skills. The handbook is intended for use by the participants of the project, as well as anyone who has an interest in using digital media literacy skills for storytelling. It contains themes and examples of work created during…

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A year of Digital Commonwealth: Beyond the Games

Today celebrates one year since the opening of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. With that, it gives us a chance to reflect on what we’ve achieved during the delivery of the Digital Commonwealth project – and we’ve managed to produce from what we’ve gathered and learned since the Games concluded last year. We’ve worked with…

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