Woohoo! 

If any of you like me have developed a real interest in the exciting medium of photography and video to tell the story of our community work and create real impact that cuts through so many barriers from litercay issues and language barriers to our audience being time poor and overloaded with information - a picture tells a 1000 words!

I discovered the course on our linked in group : Connecting Up Australia through a discussion posted by Roger Burk from http://www.pictographers.org/ conducting the course. I was sure this would be another fantastic US course - but it's in Australia.

Course details : http://www.idss.com.au/pages/1261366836.app 

I'm going to register right now!

Check out some examples of the power of digital storytelling:

• our Video blog for examples of more Australian nonprofit organisations using video and photos.
• the "A Jpeg is worth a 1000 words competition"   and more info.
• "Big Stories" an amazing project - award winning documemntary
• Online Video for Nonprofits workshop slides - a how to guide - from Connecting Up Conference 09

By Karen Gryst

If you have ever wanted to learn more about digital stroytelling and how it can work for a community the Big Stories Project is a great example to check out.

Two film makers : Jeni Lee and Sieh Mchawala with Martin Potter all from the Media Resource Centre ran a project and workshops in a town called Port Augusta in South Australia to produce " Big Stories".

I heard about Big Stories when I met with Gayle Mather from Umeewarra Aboriginal Media Association in Port Augusta recently. Gayle sent me the link to Big Stories after I thanked her for her time and commented on how I was inspired by her passion and comitment to the community there. She sent me the link to her story to help explain why she is so passionate. Wow! That a powerful way to explain something! Check out Gayle's story.