Browsing Posts tagged story telling

Shawn Callahan extols the virtues of using photos to remember what has happened on a project. Remember the last time you sat down to flick through a photo album and see the photo of Uncle Johnnie (substitute your own relatives here) building the sand castle with little Katie and you instantly recollect the story of [...]

Stephen Denning, the author of The Leader’s Guide to Storytelling has commented on the role of emotions in learning. He conjects that “narrative is important for high-speed learning: it can engage the heart” and suggests that learning is easy when we are motivated to learn. I agree. As with anything, a mood of ambition or [...]

This morning on tv, I saw an article about the Yolngu People of North East Arnhem Land. They have a regular gathering called the Garma Festival which provides them a place to share knowledge and culture. Yolngu culture in north-east Arnhem Land ? a heartland of Aboriginal culture and land rights ? is among the [...]