Dan Bricklin's story of what he saw and how he told it |
Showing off a Festival devoted to Storytelling using two products you can use to tell your own stories in digital form |
The Digital Storytelling Festival was held September 16-18, 1999, in Crested Butte, Colorado |
My journal of the sessions A detailed account of what each speaker said and how I felt about it My trip to Crested Butte Why I came, how I got there, and what it looks like How I made this web site The tools I used and how I used them Slideshows and Videos Streaming media, some real stories told in the Digital Storytelling manner |
Watch the Overview slideshow to get an introduction to this web site (requires RealPlayer G2, download from RealNetworks. There are other slideshows and videos listed below.) |
There is a What I learned page to give you the ideas without the stories |
What's on this web site |
My detailed journal as an attendee of the Festival: |
Thursday morning |
The first day I learned what this conference was about and why I needed to be here. | |
The rest of Thursday |
Less emotional, but still things to learn. | |
Friday morning |
Douglas Adams, an example to emulate, and more. | |
Friday afternoon |
Sites that help people, hypertext, and my presentation. | |
Friday night |
Food and prizes. | |
Saturday morning |
A great photographer, more stories, more tools. | |
The rest of Saturday |
Lunch, rain, more stories, the biology of storytelling, and homeward bound. | |
Detail: | |
Douglas Adams speech in detail |
My detailed notes expanded, including some of his jokes. |
How I put this together: |
Preparing in advance |
To prepare, I came up with a general design for what I was going to do and created a starting Trellix Web file. Here's a long explanation of how I started writing this web site. | |
What I brought |
Cameras, software, other hardware. | |
The initial setup in Crested Butte |
What my room table looked like with the laptop, etc., hooked up. | |
How I worked at the Festival |
What I did to create this at night and how Shelley made the slideshows. | |
After returning to Massachusetts |
More time to check URLs and compress the video. | |
My trip to Crested Butte: |
Deciding to attend the Festival |
I was fated to go to this Festival in this place. | |
The trip to Crested Butte: To the airport |
The start of the trip. | |
The trip to Crested Butte: Plane and car |
Two plane rides and another car ride. | |
Wednesday evening registration reception |
Eating, drinking, and talking in small groups. | |
Crested Butte |
Pictures and stories, links, weather. | |
Detail: | |
The Big Dig |
The big thing in Boston, in pictures. Huge public works project. |
Slideshows created with RealSlideshow (requires RealPlayer G2): |
Site Overview |
Gives you a tour of this web site. I did this after getting back to Massachusetts. | |
Pre-Festival Site Intro |
A slideshow I created just before I left for the Festival. I talk about my plans for this web site and the slideshows. | |
Shelley's First: Thursday Morning |
Shelley McIntyre of RealNetworks took copies of my pictures, made her own selections, and produced this RealSlideshow on Thursday of the Festival. | |
Shelley's Second |
Here is her afternoon report. | |
Shelley's Third |
And yet another from Shelley,this one about Friday morning, drawing on my pictures but using her narration, feelings, and organization. | |
Shelley's Fourth |
Friday afternoon as Shelley saw it. Done after she left the Festival. | |
Video I took of what I saw (Streaming RealVideo): |
Video clip of Dana starting the Festival (Duration: 1:29) |
Dana Atchley opens the first day telling us Crested Butte is wonderful, but cool for some reason. | |
Video clip of corporate storytelling section (Duration: 2:10) |
Example of a story about Bermuda used to explain why insurance company deals with risk well; Dana explaining about corporate use of storytelling. | |
Video clip of Biedny & Worthington (Duration: 2:32) |
"Making do with what you have -- mastering the tools you've got" from Thursday afternoon. See and hear their style of presenting and a cool example. | |
Video clip of Thursday night and Bootcamp results (Duration: 10:19) |
This clip should give you an idea of what Thursday night was like. It starts with the cookout, with a few skits (it was too dark for my old video camera -- enjoy the audio). It then switches to inside where you can see some of the Bootcamp participants' results shown. | |
Video clip of the start of Douglas Adam's speech (Duration: 0:53) |
The start of Douglas Adam's speech. Unfortunately, my camera battery died early and this is all I got. | |
About this web site: |
Navigate through this web site using normal links in the text or with the map above -- just click on the little white page icons. |
The yellow "You Are Here" icon shows you the current page. |
The map and page layouts are designed for 800x600 browser windows and above, though 640x480 should still work. |
The slideshows were created using RealSlideshow Plus and require the RealPlayer G2 to view them. |
Get RealPlayer G2 from the RealNetworks products page. (You don't need the RealSlideshow program to view the slideshows, just to create them.) Learn about RealSlideshow is you want to make your own. |
Run RealPlayer "on-top" (use the "View / On Top While Playing" command) so you can click on the slides and see the pages they link to. |