Cathy Healy

Cathy Healy works with K-12 classrooms worldwide as they make a difference in the world.

Cathy Healy

Advocate for K-12 Global Collaborations

The story only you can tell: Bringing your photos to life

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My associate, Mari Lynch, and I have been working on a blurb that describes my upcoming presentation to staff at the Washakie Museum and Cultural Center on Sept. 7, 2010. We think we’ve captured the essence. I am particularly fond of Mari’s title.

The story only you can tell 
Bringing your photos to life

Stuffed in boxes. Stored in the basement. Stacked in scrapbooks.  Where are your family photos? What story do they capture that only you can tell?
On September 7, 2010, Cathy Healy will show you how to bring your photos to life, including using the techniques of Digital Storytelling. Telling a story “digitally” means creating a three to five-minute video. As in any historical documentary, you start with a story. Once you record it, you illustrate your words with photos, letters and home movies, then, finally, complete your mood with music.

Bringing storytelling to the computer arena means you can more easily share and distribute your stories. Digital stories can be watched on your television set with DVDs; they can be stored online on family genealogy sites, or added as links in books that soon will be accessible on e-book. Book lovers—which are most of us–can create hardback books that can be updated and reprinted. You can even make them available on Amazon, and on the Kindle.

Cathy is a third-generation regular in Worland, who as journalist, novelist, magazine editor, and online producer, crossed the mountains to see the world and always returns home. She recently completed graduate certification in Digital Storytelling from the University of Colorado-Denver, in a joint program with the Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkeley, California.  Cathy’s professional expertise (National Geographic Society, Amèricas Magazine), technical expertise (Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University) and volunteer interests (international, K-12 collaborative projects) merge to link people and their stories.

Comments

  1. Meagan says

    Hooray! I’m glad this project is happening. I’m excited to hear more about the presentations that occur from this project, too!