Field report, yay!

Laura has inspired me, and it's a slow day in the office, so it's field report time!

Last night I was tapped (by process of elimination) to give a presentation on Digital Storytelling to the East Bay Mac Users Group at Ex'Pressions in Emeryville. I spoke for an hour, running through the history of CDS, an overview of the workshop process (including a writing exercise) and of course I showed some digital stories. All in all, I think it went really well, and we might even get a few volunteers out of it!

Next week starts the onslaught of workshops: a 3 day general at the end of next week, a 5 Day TTT the week after that, then hopefully Chicago for the open workshop in mid-November, then my and Laura's KPFA workshop the first week of December. I'm excited about it, but also nervous. We did a tutorial run-through with Andrea a week or two ago, and that combined with my presentation last night has made me feel better about doing a workshop, but there's still so much to learn.

Laura and I are also working on the CDS archive, which you can read about in her blog here. Also, I got the intern, Zoe, to fall for the updog AGAIN. Exciting stuff!

Also, on a more personal note, I bought a TiVo. If you've been thinking about it, do it, friends. It will change your life.

Have a fantastic weekend!

Comment from Morgan Sully on October 11, 2008 - 11:45pm

Totally smells like updawg in here. Awesome to connect with the East Bay MUG at Ex'Pressions. Great context for meeting with a pertinent group for a cool topic - I'd imagine they might make some tech-saavy/tech-passionate volunteers/storytellers. Awesome to have the writing exercise there too. Link?

What's TTT? Other folks might not know about that model or how it relates to capacity-building...

-m

P.S. hilARIOUS on the updawg.

P.P.S. Kudos for slow days in the office - good time to reflect and do things like yr Field Reports;)