When Holy Cross High School, Siolim turned 75 years old it tuned on into an ancient learning approach and combined it with sophisticated modern technology – the digital story. The digital story is a media artifact. It is a personal narrative that enables new approaches to reflection and engagement from our story teller students. It is made from digital images and sounds. Selected students of the school participated in a hands on and minds on Digital Story Telling Workshop from August 18 to 23, 2008 facilitated by Gocreat.
Our little story tellers spent six enthusiastic fun-filled and intensely serious afternoons and have produced for us their little stories. “My favorite place” was the theme and the students were free to craft the story just as they wished. The digital stories they made invite us to enter their intimate world ranging from their living room at home, to the bounty that Mother Nature has given Siolim - the springs and rivulets and one of the presiding deity of Siolim – Sateri. You will see that our little citizens indeed have their heads, minds and values in the right place. At the end of the workshop we are optimistic about all that is central to life and love, to humanity and its survival. No words can be a substitute to experiencing the films of these young people.
Here are the final cuts of their short films...
'Sateri Mai' (in Marathi) by Alisha Govekar
'My House in the Past' by Bryan Britto
'Zhar' (in Konkani) by Delaila Fernandes
'My Beautiful House' by George Monteiro
'When I First Caught a Fish' by Michael Fernandes
'Vhal Mhozo Ixtt' (in Konkani) by Nabila D'Souza
'The Ground and Me' by Rowena Petters
'Ticketless in Borivali Park' by Sharon Sebastian
'My Dream - Football' by Valencia Braganza
'My Living Room' by Yohann Fernandes
