Highland Lives is a BBC Project running as part of the Highland Year of Culture and is about promoting Digital Literacy in the Highlands. Several centres across the Highlands are taking part in the project and I was invited to act as the project co-ordinator for North Highland College. People were invited to take part in the project, to create a digital archive of life in the Highlands. Being bashful Highlanders, getting people to take part was a problem but after lots of phone calls we managed to get 7 participants plus myself.
The first weekend was about handing out all the kit to the 7 participants (3 sets of video recording equipment and 4 sets of audio/photography equipment) and learning to use it effectively. A month later all the participants attended another weekend workshop to learn how to Adobe Premier video editing software. This was very very rewarding and all participants edited their own shows. Finally, their was an evening to showcase everyones work. It was amazing! You can find the end results of all the Highland Lives workshops at the Highland Lives website.
If you know me, I guess it will be no surprise what the topic I chose for my digital project “Just This Once”.
Monday 1 October 2007
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