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Digital storytelling and faith formation
ELCA Extravaganza 2015Intensive Care CourseMary Hess / Luther seminary / January 29-30, 2015
goals for the course
• understand how digital storytelling is an integral part of faith formation
• learn a couple of practical tools for creating digital faith stories
• learn a couple of practical ways to share digital faith stories
• have fun!
today…
• introductions
• create/share/believe — what is this all about?
• theological reflection with commercial digital stories
• an exercise in metaphor and simile
• what are we learning so far?
stats, two assertions and a challenge
• trends observed in religious practices
• shape of religious practice amidst digital cultures
• church is more than an institution, but requires institutions
• larger contexts waking up to institutional pressures
• where will your faith take you?
8 trends
• declining number of Christians and growing number of people with no religious affiliation
• increasing number of people identifying as more “spiritual” and less “religious”
• declining participation in Christian churches
• increasing diversity and pluralism in US society
• increasing influence of individualism on Christian identity and community life
• changing patterns in marriage and family life
• declining family religious socialization
• increasing impact of new media
networked religion
• a networked community
• storied identities
• shifting authority
• convergent practice
• a multisite reality
second assertion: church needs to share stories that name experiences which we don’t otherwise have language for, and has to provide a moral compass in doing so
believe
createshare
storying faith
• keep in mind the mystery of the Trinity
• stories need encouragement to emerge
• working on creating stories supports faith formation
• reach out to learn, to hear stories that are not your typical stories
we need stories that transform our perspectives, that reframe our taken-for-granted views, that help us to “re-contextualize” in the face of context collapse
today…
• Fair use considerations and the Creative Commons
• exploring media production
• accessible digital media tools
• story circle exercise
• sharing digital work
• moving deeper with youth!
resources for image and sound
• which images will you use? (flickr, google)
• which sounds/music? (freesound, sound cloud)
• look for creative commons licensed resources
• keep in mind with biblical texts…
accessible tools
• tackk.com
• animoto.com
• adobe voice
• magisto.com
• iMovie.com
sharing tools
• youtube.com
• vimeo.com
• slideshare.com
• storify.com
so now we have tools to use, and metaphors to play with, how do we elicit stories? how do we listen carefully?
sharing stories
• youtube.com
• vimeo.com
• slideshare.net
• storify.com
keep in mind…
• citations!
• concerns about images and people
• evoking leads to engagement, illustration/representation can close down meaning
• leave room for the Holy Spirit!
projects done by local churches…
• MN Episcopal Story Project
• Bethlehem Lutheran
• StoryingFaith.org
five practices for living in the tragic gap
• an understanding that we are all in this together
• an appreciation of the value of otherness
• an ability to hold tension in life-giving ways
• a sense of personal voice and agency
• a capacity to create community
video credits future of storytelling (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjoO6Y29f7I) social trinity (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe78DHHgF_s) the Syrophoenician woman (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAl--5UKaPc) poetry slam quarter finals (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tv00xjClbx0) “cuz he’s black” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Wf8y_5Yn4) The gospel according to Adele (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4CIimPoiAM) Apple commercial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhwhnEe7CjE) google play (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bKsQOxIavE) be together not the same (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD-oCSoI9OQ) google reunion (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHGDN9-oFJE) apple song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRsPnzcZ1VY) generic brand video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YBtspm8j8M) bizarre state of copyright (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG_FCQiKUws) creative commons a shared culture (http://creativecommons.org/videos/a-shared-culture) an unexpected Christmas (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM1XusYVqNY) dear american youth pastor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBW4R8vjA1Q) dear matafele peinem (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJuRjy9k7GA)
image and photo credits
our job is to love each other (http://tinyurl.com/ogrwhek) Buddha was not a Buddhist (http://tinyurl.com/l8jj9wa) Maya Angelou quote (http://tinyurl.com/klla5y8) church of the future (http://www.cartoonchurch.com/how-you-can-use-the-cartoons/) john roberto faith20/20 (http://www.faithformation2020.net/ff-2020-overview--presentations.html) david hayward (http://nakedpastor.com/) (http://www.cartoonchurch.com/) second life (http://slangcath.wordpress.com/) humble walk (http://humblewalkchurch.org/) taizé (http://www.taize.fr/) ferguson, mo clergy (christopher hazou) don’t shoot (youth radio) peace ferguson (PC) marriage quality photos (fibonacci blue) race picture (joe bielawa) joy (diana robinson) forgiveness (len matthews) may my soul note rest (eperales) repentance (vince42) hope tree (hartwig hkd) peace dove (stuart williams)
more info: mary hess http://meh.religioused.org/web/Home.html
these slides live at: http://www.slideshare.net/maryhess1/