Project DigiTale: ICT Competences and digital stories

Project DigiTaleICT Competences and digital stories

Primedia, 1st Conference Bologna, 3-6 September 2013

Julio Zino & Jaume MartinDirection General of Penitentiary Services, Catalonia

DigiTale Project

Digitale project is part of AlfaDigital Program that aims to incorporate ICT in everyday life prison

Other projects integrated in AlfaDigital Program:

:: Cyberaules: computer recycling and free software

:: ICT / Omnia points: Internet access for inmates

:: ACTIC: accreditation of ICT skills

DigiTale Project

Promotion of ICT skills through the production of digital stories:

– Audio Stories– Video Stories– Photo Stories– Video Posters– Digital Story Telling– dMagaZines – documenTIC

CP TARRAGONA

CP DONES BARCELONA

CP GIRONA

CP FIGUERES

CP JOVES

CP BRIANS 1

CP QUATRE CAMINS

All the prisons of Catalonia participating in the AlfaDigital program

CP BRIANS 2

CP LLEDONERS

CP PONENT

CP HOMES BARCELONA

10.022 inmates

44,5 % Foreign55,5 % Nationals

93,4 % Man 4,2 % Youth (18-21) 6,6 % Women

Data 31.07.13

CP OBERT 1 BARCELONA

CP OBERT 2 BARCELONA

Prison centres participating in the Digitale project

DigiTale: training in digital storytelling

• Training with cumulative capsules organized around a final product:

– AudioStories and VídeoStories; FotoStories; dMagaZines; VideoPosters; DigitalNarratives

– Duration: 2-3 sessions / capsule | 6-9 hours / capsule

• Through training workshops:

– Inmates + staff: CP 2 Brians, CP Women, CP Girona, CP Men, CP Youth, CP Lledoners, CP Quatre Camins, other

– 125 people trained (since June 2011)

Methodology

• Meaningful learning connection with personal experiences– Empowerment of own abilities voice, personal

history, skills, knowledge ...– Structure learning community of practice– Ties to a final product accessible and easy to spread

• Using simple technical equipment: – PC and Microphone – Free software: Audacity, Movie Maker, OpenShot,

VLC, Gimp, LibreOffice

Methodology

• Skills development:– oral, written, creative, aesthetic– introduce ICT as a cross curricular theme:

• Editing text• Recording and editing audio • Editing video• Internet

• Share and spread processes and outcomes – alfadigital.info blog, – AlfaDigital Channel in YouTube– Traveling exhibition Sant Jordi DigiTale (St. George)

Exhibition Sant Jordi DigiTale 2013

Participation:

• 6 prisons

• 100 Inmates

• 8 professionals

• 65 productions

Traveling exhibition of digital stories about the Saint George’s Day

Editing audio files

Recording voices

Training in digital storytelling

Cyberaules

AlfaDigital Channel in YouTube

Blog AlfaDigital

AudioStory

literary text is read, recorded and published as audio, which you can add music or other sound effects(see examples)

Example of an AudioStory: “Remains Forbidden”, by Alfredo Cuervo Potter, attributed to Pablo Neruda (listen)

VideoStory literary text is read, recorded and edited as video, images and music together(see examples)

VideoStory Example: "The masks“, by Mario Benedetti (see video)

Digital StoryTelling

They are personal stories that combines traditional storytelling with multimedia (photos, video, audio, music...) that are assembled into a video.The basic story is written by each participant. The same participants are those who read, recorded and edited the materials and produce the final video.

(see examples)

Example of a Digital narrative: “Mi madre” (veure vídeo)

dMagaZine (digital magazines):

is a compilation of materials written or created, read and recorded by participants, edited and assembled into an audio file for its distribution (vegeu-ne exemples)

Exemple of a dMagaZine: “Universo Cultural, el magazine abierto” (escoltar la 18ª edició)

• Blog: AlfaDigital: TIC i Presó

• Twitter: XarxaDigital

• Facebook: ProjecteAlfaDigital

• SlideShare: XarxaDigital

• YouTube: XarxaDigital

• e-mail: nppct.dj@gencat.cat

Our experience in ICT in prisonYou can see an overview video at:

http://dotsub.com/view/0722b082-5f03-43c5-bb0a-ca5795ec4e23http://www.alfadigital.info/moodle/course/view.php?id=24

“The impact in prison of ICT and Internet”