Digital storytelling at Stoke-on-Trent Museums

The museum service delivers digital storytelling sessions tailored to museum visitors, schools and community groups.

Public workshops appear on our What’s On pages. If you would like to organise an activity for your school or community group, please do get in touch to find out more. Contact Tom Pine Coffin, Alec Morrison or John Simmonds on 01782 233691 or e-mail museum.outreach@stoke.gov.uk .

We encourage individuals and groups to produce their own responses to the city’s natural and human heritage and art collections. We use music, animation, graphic storytelling, reminiscence and other techniques in order to deliver an engaging and accessible learning experience for everyone taking part.

Most activities can be offered either at our museums or in community venues. The museum service has the following facilities available for workshops:

• 12 high performance laptop computers
• 6 Canon MVX35i MiniDV camcorders
• 4 Korg MR1 digital audio recorders
• 2 Promethean interactive whiteboards
• Adobe Premiere Elements 3.0 for video editing
• Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 for graphics work
• Stop Motion Pro 5 for animation
• Anime Studio 5 for activities based on anime and manga
• Comic Book Creator 1.0 for graphic storytelling
• Comic Life (Beta) 1.3.4 for graphic storytelling
• Serif Draw Plus 8
• Sony Acid Music Studio 6.0
• Audacity 1.2.4 audio editor
• HP Createascape software (see external link - what is a mediascape?)
• TuxPaint graphics software for younger children
• Dolphin Supernova for text-to-speech, magnification and braille
• BigTrack accessible trackball mice
• BigKeys accessible keyboards

Additional equipment may be available for specific projects. Unfortunately, we cannot offer Mac-based software at present.

These activities are supported by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council through Renaissance in the Regions.

See also myspace.com/stokeontrentmuseums