This presentation, delivered to undergraduate media communications students at Bath Spa University, looks at the curation and remixing of old content into new. It includes a story of how I crowdsourced a story and shared it in a variety of formats.

1. The joys of mixing and remixing content
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2. Why me, why here, why now?
Examples of content mixing and remixing
Storytelling in the mix

3. Credit: James Barker

4. Credit: Discogs

5. Why here, why now?
This is why . . .

7. So how is content being remixed?

8. Song to flowchart

9. Credit: Wikimedia
2 songs/videos into a new song/video

10. Book into animation

11. Digital game into physical game

12. Storytelling in the mix
The mechanics of a crowdsourced story

13. Start with a question

14. Create a place for the answers
Credit: Wikimedia

15. Keep narrating progress

16. Get creative with your content

17. Make the most of what you’ve created
This project ended up taking many forms:
•A Pecha Kucha talk at an unconference
•A slidedeck on Slideshare
•A video On Youtube
•A blog post on itsdevelopmental.com
•A set of images on Flickr

18. Final thoughts . . .
1.Choose your topic
2.Choose your tactics: crowdsourcing, curation,
creation, remixing
3.Choose your tools
4.Narrate and amplify your work with social tools
5.Have fun as there is lots to be had, like this
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www.itsdevelopmental.com