Introductory presentation for a workshop about Using Digital Storytelling to Combat Violence Against Women. If you want to use this file, please contact me.

1. Trainer: Rabab Khan
Digital Storytelling to Combat
Violence against Women
Created by Rabab Khan

2. After
nourishment,
shelter and
companionship
,
stories are the
thing we need
most in the
world.‖
~Philip Pullman

3. Why are you here?
 Discuss and learn how digital stories can help to
combat violence against women
 Watch how others have used digital stories
 Learn the basics of telling an effective story
 Learn the basics of how to use the tools
 Tell your own story in digital format
 Use your learning to teach other women how to
harness technology

4. How can digital
stories help
combat violence
against women?

5. The World 2.0

6. ―First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out
how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we
thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics,
and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide
Web, we've realized it's a brochure.‖
~ Douglas Adams

9. ByGavinLlewellyn[CC-BY-2.0(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)],viaWikimediaCommons

10. ―Social media
spark a
revelation that
we, the people,
have a voice,
and through the
democratization
of content and
ideas we can
once again unite
around common
passions, inspire
movements, and
ignite change.‖ ~
Brian Solis
By Essam Sharaf (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

11. How can technology help
women?
 Digital Sisters http://www.digitalsistas.
 org/home.shtml
 Women Who Tech http://womenwhotech.com/
 Fem 2.0 http://www.fem2pt0.com/
 Women Action and the Media
http://www.womenactionmedia.org/
 Take Back the Tech
http://www.takebackthetech.net/
 UNIFEM
http://www.unifem.org/campaigns/sayno/

12. How can technology help
women?

13. How can technology help
women?

14. /Burhan Ozbilici / AP Photo
―The question
isn’t who’s
going to let me;
it’s who is going
to stop me.‖
~Ayn Rand

15. How is Digital Storytelling
Useful?
Personal
Reflection
& Growth
Education & Awareness
Movement
Building
Policy &
Advocacy
Research &
Evaluation
Digital
Storytelling
This slide is based on a digital storytelling outcomes matrix developed by staff at the Center for Digital Storytelling, www.storycenter.or
which pioneered the practice of digital storytelling in the early 1990s and continues to offer training and technical assistance globally

16. How is Digital Storytelling
Useful?
Personal
Reflection
& Growth
Education & Awareness
Movement
Building
Policy &
Advocacy
Research &
Evaluation

17. ―Our deepest wishes are whispers of our
authentic selves. We must learn to respect
them. We must learn to listen.‖ ~Sarah
Ban Breathnach
By Rennett Stowe from USA (Meditation Uploaded by russavia) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

18. What is Digital Storytelling?
Digital stories are stories produced, stored
and disseminated using digital media

25. The tools
may
have
change

27. The
stories
are the
same

28. The
Focus

29. The Focus
Your
 Control over the medium
 Choice of words (narration)
 Choice of Pictures
 Choice of Music
The process is as powerful for the story teller
as the end product is to the viewer.

30. The Process

31. By Bryan Hong (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons
―When we speak we
are afraid our words
will not be heard or
welcomed. But when
we are silent, we are
still afraid. So it is
better to speak.‖
~Audre Lorde

32. To use your talents
to tell stories of your
own.

33. To learn to tell your
stories using words,
visuals, and multi-
media.

34. To develop your
own unique voice
drawing from your
talents and
nterests.

35. To learn story writing
techniques

36. To learn
computer
skills and
online
technologies
to increase
the power of
your story.

37. The Result
 Create a 1– 4 minute digital video clip
 First person narrative [begins with a written script
~ 400 words]
 Told in your own voice [record script]
 Illustrated (mostly) by still images
 Music track to add emotional tone

38. When a digital
story is finished it
should be
remembered for
its soul, not the
bells and whistles
of the technology
tools.
Bernajean Porter

39. Credits:
•Images from Wikimedia Commons and Stock Xchng
•Outcomes of Digital Storytelling Matrix developed by
The Center
For Digital Storytelling (http://www.storycenter.org) in
conjunction with Silence Speaks
(http://www.silencespeaks.org) collaboration with
Sonke Gender Justice in South Africa
(http://genderjustice.org.za)