http://www.digitalherobook.org Discovering and engaging with young heroes through digital storytelling Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:11:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For two days students from Eikendal Primary, Floreat Primary and Montagu Drive Primary schools created their own digital hero books in a workshop led by Steve Vosloo. The workshop, held at Montagu Drive school in Mitchell's Plain, was both engaging and fun for all involved. Students worked from their paper-based ... http://www.digitalherobook.org/archives/2007/07/24/post117/ Today Steve Vosloo visited two schools in Cape Town that have been participating in the Digital Hero Book Project (DHBP): Eikendal Primary in Kraaifontein and Floreat Primary in Steenberg. At Eikendal Primary there was an opportunity to meet Druscilla van Niekerk, the educator who has been hero booking with her students, ... http://www.digitalherobook.org/archives/2007/07/17/post114/ We are extremely pleased to have the Tumaini Children's Home for needy children in Nyeri, Kenya, join the Digital Hero Book Project (DHBP). Claire Williams, a Berkeley resident who I met at Stanford University, co-founded the Hope Runs project. Hope Runs works to empower children in impoverished communities -- in this ... http://www.digitalherobook.org/archives/2007/05/30/post89/ The Digital Hero Book Project puts youth safety first. The goal of hero booking is for the participants to develop self-esteem, future-focus and communication skills. Therefore the emphasis on safety is not because this is a dangerous exercise, but because we value safety so much. At the end of the ... http://www.digitalherobook.org/archives/2007/03/17/post66/ On the same day that Prospect Sierra school began digital hero booking, seven students at the Naz Foundation Care Home in New Delhi, India, began their hero books. What began with one child in the Summer of 2000, the Naz Foundation Care Home is now a thriving home for 31 ... http://www.digitalherobook.org/archives/2007/03/13/post63/ Today the Digital Hero Book Project (DHBP) kicked off at Prospect Sierra middle school in the Bay Area. This first ever session in the USA is with a group of seven students (from the 7th and 8th grades). The project is being offered as an elective subject on Monday afternoons ... http://www.digitalherobook.org/archives/2007/03/13/post62/ Amy Hill, Community Projects Director for the Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkeley, California, ran a 3-day workshop with a group of grade-7 students from Eikendal Primary School in Cape Town. The seven students used their work-in-progress REPSSI hero books as content for their 2-minute movies. Jonathan Morgan of REPSSI ... http://www.digitalherobook.org/archives/2007/03/12/post54/ I recently met Linda Johnson, Executive Director of Streetside Stories, a San Francisco-based non-profit literacy arts program. In 13 years, it has helped over 7000 students to share their life stories, connect with the arts, and improve their literacy skills. There is much overlap between the work of Molotech and ... http://www.digitalherobook.org/archives/2007/02/27/post51/ The Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) has provided an intern to Molotech to assist with website production. Jessica Dorfman, Outreach Coordinator at BAVC, placed Anthony Ngo with us for a 60-hour internship. BAVC has a program to teach web design and video production skills to final year school learners ... http://www.digitalherobook.org/archives/2007/01/12/post47/ Last year at Stanford I met Anjali Gopolan, the Nobel Peace Prize-nominated founder of the Naz Foundation in India. She was interested in the Digital Hero Book Project (DHBP) and I've been talking to her people on the ground in New Delhi. If all goes well, a few of the ... http://www.digitalherobook.org/archives/2007/01/10/post46/