Train-the-Trainer Digital Storytelling Workshop

Committed to transferring knowledge and media skills to our partner organisations and extended networks, FOMACS hosted a weeklong facilitator training digital storytelling workshop in May 2009. Visiting workshop facilitators and trainers included, Daniel Wenshenker, Special Projects and Denver Office Director and Jennifer LaFontaine, Toronto Region Director, at the Center for Digital Storytelling, Berkeley, in addition to Darcy Alexandra, FOMACS' digital storytelling coordinator and PhD scholar in the Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice.  

This workshop explored the principles, methods, software tools, aesthetic considerations, ethical dilemmas, and curriculum issues that facilitators must consider when teaching or assisting with the digital storytelling process in their own environments.

Participants in the facilitation training included individuals working in and associated with partner organisations in FOMACS: the Irish Refugee Council, Migrant Rights Centre, Integrating Ireland, the Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, alongside participants from the previous digital storytelling workshop ‘Living in Direct Provision’, in addition to AkIDwA and networks associated with the FOMACS ‘A Sikh Face in Ireland’ project.