Comments on: What’s in a Story?

By: preilly

preilly — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 16:24:50 +0000

Salvor;
Why do you think these stories were not picked up outside the Viking culture?
Pete

By: Salvör

Salvör — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:53:38 +0000

“The Vikings may have discovered the New World; but it was Columbus that brought back the stories that stirred imaginations in the courts of Europe.”

I am an Icelander descending from the Vikings and in our culture there have always been told detailed stories about the New World, stories almost 1000 old that are part of Icelandic Sagas. These stories stirred the imaginations of Icelanders for centuries. It was not lack of stories but lack of tools (ships, weapons to fight hostile inhabitants) that made it impossible for Icelanders to try this again.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 17:42:51 +0000

Peter, I have a story that has “compelled” me for 20+ years:

In the first days of “chatting”, in the old CompuSever EdForum, I had the pleasure of seeking online assistance from a lady named Georgia Griffith.

It was only later, after reading an article in TIME Magazine, that I learned the true power of technology:

Georgia, who was helping me, was blind and deaf.

and I didn’t know……. and it didn’t matter
- at least to my head.
But in my heart.. I felt something different was coming to us all.

By: Cary

Cary — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 22:58:59 +0000

Perfect timing. Your words arrived on my “doorstep” just when I most needed them. As our district asks the big questions regarding the value of the brand new technology initiative I am leading, I found your words inspirational and comforting. It occurs to me that perhaps I have kept far too much in my head and now is the time to let my heart speak, before we lose one of the most compelling professional development experiences of my life. Words…empowering, transformative and inspirational…perfect timing. Thanks, Pete.

By: preilly

preilly — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 14:41:42 +0000

Diana,
I’d love to know more about this “complex” story you want to tell. Feel free to share it if you wish.

Sometimes when I try to think my way through a story with “my head” it get’s confusing. I have been taught to quiet my mind and to open my heart. When my heart is truly open, things become simpler. Later this weekend I am going to post something that touches on this. It is a real experience I had just recently.

pete

By: Diana

Diana — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:10:38 +0000

Trying to tell a story… in my classroom… with the tools and digital information at my fingertips… loved what you wrote today. I am quite maxed out at the end of a long day struggling with the right way to tell a tough story. Reading your post and the one at think:lab allowed me to put into perspective what I am trying to do in my classroom… in a specific way, with my current project. Reading and writing at the end of this long day helps to get my brain wrapped around the complexity of the particular story that I am trying to relay to my class currently.

To read the end of the day ramblings of a maxed out middle school teacher :)… proceed to http://laufenberg.typepad.com/living_the_dream/2007/01/telling_the_sto.html

By: preilly

preilly — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:13:00 +0000

This is thread on my post.
http://thinklab.typepad.com/think_lab/2007/01/tell_me_your_st.html
pete

By: EdBloggerNews

EdBloggerNews — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:48:37 +0000

What’s In a Story

How successful we are in transforming education is dependent on the stories we tell.