Hello, folks! If you attended THATCamp New Souths in 2014, registration is now open for 2016. This THATCamp will happen April 29-30, in Richmond, Virginia. Thanks to VCU Libraries, we’ll be based at James Branch Cabell Library this year. Want to learn more?

THATCamp New Souths 2016

Online storytelling session notes.

Session notes for the Mapping Food Cultures session, courtesy Alice W. Campbell.

powtoons
www.powtoon.com/

digital pragmata
wp.vcu.edu/digitalpragmata/

freedom now project
www.flickr.com/photos/vculibraries/sets/72157640796269224/

sound recording collecting in crisis
guides.lib.washington.edu/imls2014

a domain of one’s own
umwdomains.com/
community.umwdomains.com/

mandingo
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandingo_(novel)

self-reliant film
www.selfreliantfilm.com/

A Google Doc for notes about Something About Mapping. Please feel free to hop in and add notes, links, etc.

If you’d like to have another go at the rest of the breakfast food, there are still muffins, bananas, etc., calling your name. Yes, you. The food will be removed once the 11:15 session has begun.

[Proposed by Nell Chenault.] It is a challenge to gather together publications, research, and information about the “New South”. Can a tool be developed to assist with this research issue? A portal or widget which focuses on many of the themes?

I’d like to have a session about telling stories digitally, using whatever tools, on whichever platforms. Depending on our interest, this could be show-and-tell about interesting stories you’ve seen or created, brief walkthroughs of tools you’ve used, ideas about best practices, etc. Not thinking of a full-on intro to Digital Storytelling, like Bud Deihl’s workshop Friday, though maybe those of us who attend it can use some of what we learn there as a springboard for discussion & ideas.

Alternatively, if we want to run a Make-type session, we could try to create a story told collaboratively across many platforms, to give us all a hand at trying new tools. In this kind of scenario, perhaps we could all resolve to try a new (to us) platform for storytelling, but offer to act as resources for each other — e.g. I don’t have an Instagram account, so maybe I could try to tell part of our story on there and learn something about it, while answering questions about, e.g., WordPress. Not necessarily thinking of a complete/coherent narrative here; it could be finding new ways to present different aspects of a fictional project (Newspapers to Prisoners; Enslaved Geographies; etc.).

I like fiction and telling stories, but the practical takeaways I see for participants would be:

• Exposure to new tools
• Ideas about pitfalls & virtues of different kinds of storytelling
• Examples of online engagement/storytelling that might inspire you to try new things with promoting/discussing your project
• (Perhaps) experience using a new-to-you storytelling tool