Faculty
Daniel Weinshenker
E-mail: 
daniel@storycenter.org
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General Description or Areas of Interest
Daniel Weinshenker is the Director of the Denver Office of the Center for
Digital Storytelling, a non-profit organization based in Berkeley, CA that
has been credited with initiating the digital storytelling movement and
providing training in digital storytelling as well as digital storytelling
facilitation for the past 14 years. He also teaches the 3-day and 5-day
workshops as part of the Certificate in Digital Storytelling at UCD.
To date, CDS has taught workshops in over 45 U.S. states and 20 countries,
assisting in the completion of more than 10,000 video works and has helped
adapt digital stories for use in web sites, CD-ROMs, TV broadcast, mural
projects, and social issue campaigns.
Daniel comes to digital storytelling from his post-graduate work in creative
writing, having taught creative writing in various contexts from private
workshops to K-12 and university settings. He has taught digital
storytelling workshops since 2003 to hundreds of humans: underserved youth
in Denver, adults across the US, survivors of rape and sexual assault,
foster youth, HIV/AIDS groups in South Africa, women from the penal system,
teachers, mothers, fathers and children.
He is co-writing a chapter with UCD Professor Alan Davis on the effect that
digital storytelling has on urban middle schoolers and the impact that
authorship has on identity. It is being published by University of
Cambridge Press and is due out in 2009.
Not being one to preach what he does not practice, he also makes digital
stories.
You can watch one here:
http://www.scatterstick.com/grandcanyonsCD2.mov
<http://www.scatterstick.com/grandcanyonsCD2.mov>