Storytelling in Israel

From the mouth of ‘babies’ to the ears of media and marketing ‘professionals’

By Limor Shiponi The other day I gave three consecutive workshops about stories in digital media, to kids in 7th grade. The organizers’ assumption was that ‘digital’ will attract them as ‘cool’. Knowing that once you expose people to new tools their attention wanders to the particulars and features, I decided to do three things: …

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The StoryBox project – field report, Zichron Yaakov Israel, part six – storystorm and farewell

By Limor Shiponi Ilan took a bunch of stories home, wanting to deepen his own experience with the box and its stories. He came back to school suggesting they will read some of the stories together. The stories were written by students around the same age so the issues were close to their heart. They …

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The StoryBox project – field report, Zichron Yaakov Israel, part five

By Limor Shiponi We have stories! Today they finished writing them so the meeting was mainly about writing, prompting and writing again. Ilan asked me to bring the box, “It has a magical influence,” he said. It does. As they wrote I was looking for a matchbox Nathalie told me about and I found it. …

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