Storymining Workshops

Storymining is an intensive, three-day seminar and hands-on training for museum professionals to create interactive, engaging presentations about art, artists, and other themes. The training will focus on the entire creation process from basic storytelling technique through the essentials of producing high-quality images and video to storyboarding and, finally, authoring in Pachyderm.  Participants who complete the training will receive certification as Pachyderm authors.

The first two days of the seminar consist of training appropriate for all audiences, while the last day is devoted to advanced technical skill development and the completion of a draft digital story.  This allows a museum to bring an entire team — curators, education staff, and technical staff — and have some of the team attend only the first day (eg, curators), the first two days (education staff), or all three (production staff or teachers), depending on their role in the production process.

The seminar will be led by a team of highly skilled specialists. The Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkeley, California will conduct the technical and storytelling aspects of the training. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will provide training on how to think about the layers of meaning that surround all art; along with staff from the New Media Consortium, they will demonstrate the Pachyderm authoring tool as well.  NMC staff will also provide overall facilitation for each of the trainings.

Participants will work in groups to create a digital presentation about a topic they select. They will gather and process media, storyboard the project, create a rough draft of the Pachyderm project, draft a digital story, and work towards completing their project over the course of the three-day seminar.