Festival2012/Submit/Location-based Storytelling

• Title of session: Location-based Storytelling
• Your name and affiliation:
  • Mark Boas, Mozilla Foundation & Al-Jazeera
  • Jon Buckley, Mozilla Foundation
  • Nicola Hughes, Mozilla Foundation & Guardian
• Session format: Learning Lab

What will your session or activity allow people to make, learn or do?

Participants will take a Popcorn.js or Popcorn Maker template that we built and use it to tell a story about a place. The template will be improve upon the work that Laurian did for the BBC Instead of recording footage from Google Earth, participants will record an audio clip telling a story about a place. It could be as simple as their flight to London or walk to Ravensbourne.

How do you see that working?

Show participants a demo of the template that they're going to use. We will put people into groups of 2-5 people, mixing developers with non-developers, and people who don't know each other. Each group will decide where they want to tell their story, and then record an audio clip. They'll make their project in 45 minutes Finally, we'll end the lab with some more excellent examples of Popcorn.js demos, and pimp Popcorn and Open News.

How will you deal with 5, 15, 50 participants?

Everyone will be in a group. We'll need more Popcorn knowledgable devs if the group size gets larger than 25 though.

How long within your session before someone else can teach this?

They would probably need to do the whole session.

What do you see as outcomes after the festival?

• Participants can bring this template back to their organizations to teach other people
• Raising awareness of Open News fellows, and how people can apply to it