“Much of life. . is recollection”

Yi-Fu Tuan cites Alfred North Whitehead in writing that much of life is recollection. “Stories,” Tuan writes, “help parents to recollect. All parents like to tell stories of their children. Modern parents, however, have the advantage of being able to weave their tales around snapshots in the family album. Photographs are not only reminders [...]

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VoiceThread

VoiceThread is a Web-based digital-storytelling application. Users can knit together still images, video, with audio commentary and even “doodling” to draw arrows or circles highlighting objects in the images. VoiceThread features a poignant homegrown production – a photo-essay by a mother talking with her young son they look at photographs. She begins with a tour [...]

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One Laptop Per Child

Those of us who have digital cameras, computers, and high speed connections can now more easily construct and share our stories but what about others who lack such tools? MIT’s One Laptop Per Child project aims to truly democratize the use of computers to tell our stories. The OLPC represents a massive, collaborative effort [...]

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