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Narrative blogging style on a science topic

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Quite a poignant blog post about the difficulty of discussing death and the importance of people's stories.
It's also has a really interesting back and forth narrative structure that balances emotional experiences and intellectual opinion.

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Carol Walker's blog post about the Tales of Things project. Stories of objects using QR and RFID tags.

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Cognitive Neuroscientist Michael Gazzaniga talks about a left brain hemisphere function he labels "the Interpreter" that organises memory into coherent, meaningful narratives.

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Links curated by Greg Morris on storytelling, digital or otherwise.

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This sums it up nicely:
"As educators, we know that we need to help young people understand how their digital stories might be interpreted and appropriated, and support them to maintain their privacy. But can we also find ways to help them tell their stories in ways that are not just about presenting idealized versions of themselves to a corporate world, but allow them to critique these narratives and gain agency over their own stories?"

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From John Hagel, a thoughtful look at narrative as a "pull" mechanism - a way of engaging and motivating people. The distinction between story and narrative here is not one I'd drawn previously.

For interest, have a look down the comments for Donald Clark's contribution. Although his insistence that there are more interesting forms of non-narrative learning I can't agree with his conclusion that "storytelling sucks". Especially with his sports example, yes it's a participative  and unpredictable but sport is surrounded by narrative, either social (e.g. recounting a disasterous season in the premiere league for your team) or individual (e.g. developing skill over time to become a better sportsperson).

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A blog post about students as creators of content - Richard Millwood talks about the dimensions of Audience, Narrative and Control. 

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