Dec 9, 2020 | Newsletter 2020
Message From the Executive Director “Story has many different qualities that make it useful for the work of systems change. It’s a direct route to our emotions, and therefore important to decision-making. It creates meaning out of patterns. It coheres...
Sep 30, 2020 | Newsletter 2020
Message From the Executive Director …on the phrase, Digital Resiliency Hello Colleagues, Collaborators and Friends, There is a new phrase out there – or at least, new to me. It’s Digital Resiliency. Here is one definition: “Digital...
Sep 10, 2020 | Newsletter 2020
Message From the Executive Director Hello Colleagues, Collaborators and Friends, I want to share this fascinating passage from a novel I just completed: Flights by Olga Tokarczuk. This moment in the book is about language – the ubiquity of the English...
Aug 25, 2020 | Newsletter 2020
Hello and Welcome back to the Meridian Stories Newsletter WE HAVE A NEW WEBSITE DESIGN! CHECK IT OUT! Phew. Just had to get that out. I am kind of pumped. Back to my ‘business voice.’ …We have been working hard over the summer, along with two...
Apr 26, 2020 | Newsletter 2020
Message From the Executive Director Meridian Stories is announcing a new Digital Storytelling Initiative called Narrative Flashpoint. The objective is to provide students with an opportunity to excavate, express and share their perspectives during this unique moment...
Mar 6, 2020 | Newsletter 2020
Message From the Executive Director Yo! I had the privilege to attend the 2020 Camden Conference in Maine a few weeks ago. Moderated by NPR’s David Brancaccio, the theme of this year’s conference was The Media Revolution: Changing the World. One of...
Feb 26, 2020 | Newsletter 2020
Message From the Executive Director We are back!!! Podcasts, to me, are these often intimate experiences that emanate from disembodied voices directly into my ear. I have been investigating podcasts, trying to unmask the reasoning behind their cultural rise. The...
Dec 12, 2019 | Newsletter 2020
Message From the Executive Director Recognition for educational innovation is not easy to come by. I am proud to report that Heather Sinclair, a teacher at Wiscasset Middle School in Maine, was recently recognized by Maine Association of Middle Level Education for her...
Nov 24, 2019 | Newsletter 2020
Message From the Executive Director National Geographic, one of most reputable educational organizations in the world, is moving into Digital Storytelling. I know this because I am lucky enough to be the Writer of these new curriculum-driven modules, each of which...
Nov 3, 2019 | Newsletter 2020
Message From the Executive Director Hello – Recently, I finished re-reading Don DeLillo’s 1991 novel, Mao II. In that novel, the following exchange takes place: “For some time now I’ve had the feeling that novelists and terrorists are playing a...
