Hello all, I haven't updated this for this some time, but I have been thinking a lot about the digital stories and how everyone is getting on with this process.

Alex and I had a paper accepted for a Health Practice Education conference in Edinburgh in March. As our presentation is about 'MINE' and how we've used web 2.0 approaches, I think we've decided to present it as a digital story. So I've set about trying to write a digital story of MINE too - Alex seems to be adopting a behaviourist approach and letting me 'learn by doing', as for me it is most definitely a process of trial and error! Should we have resorted to our more comfortable roles I would be doing the reflective bit and he would be doing the techie bit - perhaps that in itself should be part of our story.

So just to share where I've got to so far - which has been quite a bit of thinking and a very small amount of doing. For me there seems to be two parts, the practical making of a digital representation of what happened in MINE - but I think this is preceeded to some extent by the other part which is the reflective account that will accompany it

I found I have returned to what I did in preparation for MINE, the delight in the bid being successful, sharing ideas with partners, all the preparation work, and how that impacted on the actual event. I have also asked myself why I pursued this in the first place.

I have looked again at the blogs, and these are a great resource and have prompted lots of thoughts about what we learnt during the two weeks, and the processes that underpinned that learning. At this point I jumped back to the visual bit of the process and thought about what photos, and video clips I could use to support or illustrate this learning.

I have found the following website quite helpful, http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/. It did talk a bit about historical aspects of stories, and whilst initially I wasn't sure how useful this might be, I did realise that it was very relevant, as many of own nursing practice learning expereinces (good and not so good) - have certainly shaped the type of teacher I have become today. It does give examples of stories from different disciplines as well as practical tips etc.

As well as the theoretical components, the whole Erasmus 'learning in all contexts' is a huge part of the IP, and the social, cultural, and friendship aspects were quite phenomenal. These are also very evident in the blogs and the dv's!,

This is very much a work in progress and I will keep you informed of any future crises or breakthrough's. There is a dv on the aforementioned website on making a digitalstory. It finishes with Dorothy, in Oz, clicking her heels and saying 'I want to go home' quite an apt end I thought as most people at the end of the IP didn't seem quite ready to...