The first roundtable could be the beginning of what is needed to help move the global church towards using the visual media to effectively communicate the narrative of the Bible...
Check out Don Eland's excellent podcast of the event at: http://web.mac.com/elandinteractive/iWeb/iweb/PODCAST/PODCAST.html
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Thursday, May 22, 2008
The Eagle Has Landed
It’s a wrap. Nearly 50 leaders stayed engaged in the process of considering how to unleash a global movement of visual story for the sake of the kingdom. We struggled with the way to move forward in light of diverse backgrounds and callings. In the end, we divided into groups focused on North America, global opportunities, training and communications.
There were powerful connections among people who care deeply about Christ’s kingdom and the power of visual story. Next steps include: pursue a regional event in the next several months in Dallas, develop a wiki / social networking platform and explore partnerships with the International Orality Network, International Christian in Visual Media and Mission America.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Day 2 of the Summit
Intense. Big picture. Strong personalities. Buy in to a global movement of visual story for the sake of the kingdom. An amazing cross section of people. A great venue. Screened 8 great visual story examples.
We broke into focus groups around strategic / business planning, production, distribution and effective visual story use and training.
Please keep praying. Tomorrow we will distill this into 2 near term objectives we can embrace together.
Monday, May 19, 2008
An Amazing Start
Tonight faith became sight after several months of dreaming, praying and inviting. God assembled a group of more than 50 visual story innovators from around the world outside Ft. Lauderdale, FL. There is a deep desire to see more done in this realm of visual story for the sake of the kingdom of God. Here is a lineup of part of the leadership team that has made it possible.
Friday, May 16, 2008
Digital Storytelling
Expressing compellingly now requires text, images, sound, animation and video. I came across some valuable information on the techlearning website. There is a new literacy, without learning it we will be increasingly irrelevant.
By combining writing (a script, presented in a voice-over), images or short video clips, sound effects, and music into a movie, students can find a way to become producers of content as well as consumers. Clear communication encompassing a variety of media is comfortable and natural for today's students and engages them in creative thinking and planning. Resources for learning this skill include the following:
* Center for Digital Storytelling
www.storycenter.org
* DigiTales: The Art of Digital Storytelling
www.digitales.us
* Scott County Community Digital Storytelling
www.scott.k12.ky.us/technology/digitalstorytelling/cdst.html
* Tech Head Stories
www.tech-head.com
By combining writing (a script, presented in a voice-over), images or short video clips, sound effects, and music into a movie, students can find a way to become producers of content as well as consumers. Clear communication encompassing a variety of media is comfortable and natural for today's students and engages them in creative thinking and planning. Resources for learning this skill include the following:
* Center for Digital Storytelling
www.storycenter.org
* DigiTales: The Art of Digital Storytelling
www.digitales.us
* Scott County Community Digital Storytelling
www.scott.k12.ky.us/technology/digitalstorytelling/cdst.html
* Tech Head Stories
www.tech-head.com
Thursday, May 15, 2008
I recently ran across a pretty powerful thought on how visually portraying a thought can affect destiny:
Steve Duenes answered reader questions Feb. 25-29, 2008: “Mr. Duenes manages the graphics department, a group of 30 journalists who research and create the diagrams, maps and charts for the newspaper and the Web site. He started at The Times in 1999 as the graphics editor for science. In 2001, he became the deputy graphics director, and in 2004, he became the graphics director.” Check out this excerpted anecdote from one of the readers (emphasis mine):
in september i traveled with bill gates to africa to look at his work fighting aids there. while setting the trip up, it emerged that his initial interest in giving pots of money to fight disease had arisen after he and melinda read a two-part series of articles i did on third world disease in January 1997. until then, their plan had been to give money mainly to get countries wired and full of computers.
bill and melinda recently reread those pieces, and said that it was the second piece in the series, about bad water and diarrhea killing millions of kids a year, that really got them thinking of public health. Great! I was really proud of this impact that my worldwide reporting and 3,500-word article had had. But then bill confessed that actually it wasn’t the article itself that had grabbed him so much — it was the graphic. It was just a two column, inside graphic, very simple, listing third world health problems and how many people they kill. but he remembered it after all those years and said that it was the single thing that got him redirected toward public health.
No graphic in human history has saved so many lives in africa and asia.
Steve Duenes answered reader questions Feb. 25-29, 2008: “Mr. Duenes manages the graphics department, a group of 30 journalists who research and create the diagrams, maps and charts for the newspaper and the Web site. He started at The Times in 1999 as the graphics editor for science. In 2001, he became the deputy graphics director, and in 2004, he became the graphics director.” Check out this excerpted anecdote from one of the readers (emphasis mine):
in september i traveled with bill gates to africa to look at his work fighting aids there. while setting the trip up, it emerged that his initial interest in giving pots of money to fight disease had arisen after he and melinda read a two-part series of articles i did on third world disease in January 1997. until then, their plan had been to give money mainly to get countries wired and full of computers.
bill and melinda recently reread those pieces, and said that it was the second piece in the series, about bad water and diarrhea killing millions of kids a year, that really got them thinking of public health. Great! I was really proud of this impact that my worldwide reporting and 3,500-word article had had. But then bill confessed that actually it wasn’t the article itself that had grabbed him so much — it was the graphic. It was just a two column, inside graphic, very simple, listing third world health problems and how many people they kill. but he remembered it after all those years and said that it was the single thing that got him redirected toward public health.
No graphic in human history has saved so many lives in africa and asia.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
The Interest Keeps Growing
As of today we have 59 who have committed to participating in the Summit. There are two general responses I get as I connect with people from around the world over the phone.
Response 1: I'm coming, I may have to move some things in my schedule, but I'm excited to be a part of this gathering.
Response 2: I'm sorry but I've got a conflict. I'm interested in learning how we can be a part in the future.
Response 1: I'm coming, I may have to move some things in my schedule, but I'm excited to be a part of this gathering.
Response 2: I'm sorry but I've got a conflict. I'm interested in learning how we can be a part in the future.
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