OK- we all know that lyrics set to music are the most common stories that we tell. And we all know that we read books then get disappointed when we see the film - That’s not how I imagined it.

This video of Antony and the Johnsons tells a story that for me, linked into the stories of men who try to overcome violence. I have listened to this many times and thought that it was about unrequited love, and that it’s also about staying in a violent relationship.

But it’s all open to interpretation - as the comments on this vid of Fistful of Love attest.

We guess that’s why digital storytelling is so great - you get to write your own script and show your own images.

Higher education’s storytellers were busy “connecting and reflecting” at last month’s Educause Learning Initiative 2008 meeting. Bryan Alexander ran a pre-conference Web 2.0 Storytelling workshop, the resources for which he has graciously shared, while Gail Matthews-DeNatale expanded on her earlier classroom digital storytelling experiences by examining the story-making experience from the learner’s perspective. Both Bryan and Gail feature in this 30 minute conversation also recorded at ELI2008.

Meanwhile, for those that like their teaching practice evidence-based, digital storytelling advocate Wesley Fryer unearths some educational research supporting the use of classroom digital storytelling.