Its the last stretch to finish our movies. Jan and Jenny are working on the Digital Story about the workshop, Nicolle is finding music, Sylvie is interviewing Assouto and im blogging! Once im done blogging, im going to be re-sizing pics for our Digital Story about the workshop - we are hoping to have this done for everyone to see (at least a draft!) when we do our screening.

I think everyone is eager to go home now, and eager to finish. Some are wrestling with their transitions, others with sound and music levels. We are adding the titles of our movies and ending credits.  I am so looking forward to our screening!

wish us luck!

sally

For centuries across the breast of the earth, man has tried to change things to suit him. From the Stone Age to the middle and now to the computer or information era we all have a role to make the world a better place for us and generations yet unborn.

 
I would not do justice to my goodself if I don’t express in these few lines how the workshop has healed my heart. I have always tried to put my experience of (arranged/forced) marriage behind me but I it continued to hunt my mind and it makes me so depressed. Today I feel so happy, free and different.

 
I never knew technology could be so useful to transform ones life until after the 5days workshop on “Digital Story Telling”. Seriously there was more to this than just telling a story.

 
By Bambi

Twelve women today completed a five days workshop on “Digital Story Telling” organized by APC-Africa-Women, in partnership with Women'sNet.

 The workshop brought together participants from different countries who develop stories reflecting their past experience on violence.

 The programme created an opportunity for participants to express themselves using picture to tell their stories.

 This has been the first time for many but successful.

 “ We learnt a lot as trainers and it was very impressive seeing the commitment and passion in the participants to tell their story” said Jenny Radloff Coordinator of APC-Africa-Women. Jenny believed this was a good methodology since we cannot have technology without personal and political commitment.  She look forward to seeing participants become trainers.

According to Judith Akelle Waguma a participant, the digital story telling was a new concept that was quiet interesting. Judith who is a TV producer said she never knew how to make a movie with pictures. “It was so exciting” she added.

 Tatiana Well also a participant from Brazil who has never worked on video editing before thought it was very difficult but was surprised to have made a movie from a digital camera instead of a video camera. “I cannot wait to impart the knowledge I gain from this” she said

 Technology can be fascinating but frustrating for Sally a trainer who was very instrumental. She believed everybody should empowered themselves with technology.

 The most important of all this was that everybody got the opportunity to tell a story and learnt how to use the technology.  It was great to have been part of  it.