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BLOODTIME MOONTIME DREAMTIME
- The meanings and metaphors of blood (20:00) Roberta Cantow - NARRATIVE BIO Throughout my life, I have combined by background as an independent film/video maker with my teaching skills. I have served as an educator to a wide variety of multi-ethnic populations in community college, adult education, youth oriented museum and artist-in-residence programs teaching English as a Second Language, basic writing, drama, art, filmmaking and digital storytelling. In the early 1990’s I founded One of a Kind Video Portraits, a personal history video service for individuals and families. In 1999, I began to offer my editing services for hire. In 2003, my exposure to storytelling as “new media” led me to change the emphasis of my editing entity, Original Digital, to serve the values-oriented storytelling needs of organizations (with a particular interest in those which emphasize paradigm shifts, community service and a return to wholeness). I have volunteered for such organizations as Hospice and Hollygrove, a home for abused and neglected children, where served as a “special friend” to a 13 year old child. One of my interests is to find a way to combine my ESL and Writing teaching background with my interest in the application of digital storytelling in educational and community-based settings. There is a growing trend of using digital stories as a technique for teaching writing and assisting students to understand the links between their own narratives and the narratives of their cultures and communities. The collection of digital stories in an institutional setting can be a powerful tool for the purpose of educating, community building, informing and inspiring. I would like to be involved in the creation of a project (or a center) where the possibilities inherent in the creation, collection and exhibition of digital stories is understood as a way to honor and improve the lives of individuals and communities. Learn more about Roberta and her work - Click HERE
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