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This was the first week of my ongoing, poorly-defined “Storytelling 101” project, where I try to break down what storytelling is so that I can highlight—hopefully?—the connections between the history of storytelling and storytelling technology and the explosion of digital story-making tools available to the citizen storyteller.

This week was mostly taken up with re-reading Jonathan Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal and making responses. The posts were:

• An overview of what I might be doing with this project.
• A brief intro to my first, one-man book club, the aforementioned The Storytelling Animal.
• A narrated slideshow about storytelling AS a technology, and a pretty accurate re-telling of what was probably the first story ever told.
• A video detailing just how much time we spend consuming and casually constructing story materials in a day.
• My breakdown of the two digital storytelling tools that I used this week.

Five posts in a week—six if you include this!—that’s got to be a record, so I’m going to call it here and bid you good weekend.