I love my job! (er...position)

Well it's been a little while so it's time for an update. I can't believe that it's almost Halloween...time flies.

 So I'm loving life in Berkeley at Center for Digital Storytelling. I'm finally feeling more like I'm a part of things here...I've got an email address, business cards, and they even put me on the website. Yay! I'm also getting deep into projects, which feels good.  

 I've been helping lead our digital storytelling workshops and then doing postproduction work on the stories produced. It's really awesome work because basically once or twice a month I get to sit down with a group of people, listen to them tell their stories, and then help them carry out their vision of how to present the story as a digital media project. The whole workshop process is amazing...I think it's rare when people sit down to really listen to each other. Beyond just opening up and sharing stories, there's the creative aspect of planning how best to present your story and then using these really cool tools to bring the story to life with images and music. I'm still really drawn in to the magic of it. Three cheers for participatory media!

 One of the coolest things about my work here is seeing how digital stories can be used for social change. We do a lot of work with community based organizations, training them to be able to use digital stories in their work to address issues in their own communities. I think it's great to see this stuff put to work instead of just looking at it as a jazzy way to preserve personal memories. 

Okay, well this post is getting lengthy. I could gush about this forever but I'll stop. I promise to post some really links/questions/helpful info sometime soon!