StoryCorps Goes Video
I have been a fan of the Storycorps projects for many years and wrote about how to adapt their oral history recordings in schools for Podcasting at School. Setting up podcasting stations outside of the library’s Book Fair and watching parents and students share stories was a real highlight of my time at Beverly School, especially as back-to-school creeps up on me and I remind myself I won’t be there this fall.
The New York Times reports on a project to animate StoryCorps interviews and insert them into episodes of P.O.V. on PBS.
Here’s a preview:
Q&A from StoryCorps on Vimeo.
As you plan for back-to-school open houses and think ahead a few months to parent-teacher conferences, I highly recommend creating StoryCorps-style stations as your contribution to the event. It is so richly satisfying for everyone.
PS - The P.O.V./Storycorps shorts premiere August 17.
August 16th, 2010 at 12:07 am
StoryCorps is awesome… and the video sample is very cool, although it sort of simultaneously adds to it (aw, I want to hug the boy doing the interview!) and takes away from it by filling in a lot of detail that would otherwise have been up to my imagination.