The video recording of our presentation at the Smithsonian National Education Summit 2025 is now online.
In this presentation, Philippa Rappoport and Antonia Liguori showcase ways to use digital storytelling with museum objects from the Smithsonian Learning Lab. You’ll leave with a toolkit of resources and activities to amplify student voices, build community, and increase classroom engagement and active learning across disciplines.
MeltingPro just published on their YouTube channel the recording of my webinar on AI-Powered Storytelling in which I am sharing some emerging ideas from a collaboration with the Making of Black Britain and London Trasport Museum within the context of storytelling as anti-racist teaching pedagogy. The webinar is in Italian.
Storytelling partecipativo e IA – Webinar DICOLAB Cultura al digitale, May 2025
After almost a decade of hands-on workshops and ongoing research together, Philippa Rappoport (from the Smithsonian Office of Educational Technology) and I were invited to write an article for the Smithsonian Magazine to share the power of digital storytelling as an approach that makes learning more personal, emotional, and impactful.
Read more via Smithsonian Magazine about how we have leveraged digital museum resources and storytelling circles to invite learners to share their voice: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smithsonian-education/2025/06/11/digital-storytelling-as-a-tool-for-active-and-deep-learning/
Plus, don’t miss our online session at the 2025 Smithsonian National Education Summit on Tuesday, July 15 at 12:00pm, Eastern. Check out the session line-up and register for free today: https://smithsonianeducation.swoogo.com/ses2025/home
Delighted to co-author this paper with two brilliant colleagues and friends from Loughborough University and the Institute for Creative Futures LU London, Valentina Volpi and Ksenija Kuzmina, who will be presenting our paper at the Sport Anthropology Conference 2025, whose theme this year is “Sport Beyond Definitions”.
The paper is inspired and informed by the work we are developing together through participatory digital storytelling and co-design with young people in Bangladesh, Jordan, and Fiji, at the intersection of climate displacement and sport.
You can read our abstract below.
Continue reading “Adapting Sport Together: Co-Design and Digital Storytelling for Climate Adaptation”If you are interested in participatory storytelling and the role of AI within the cultural heritage sector – and you speak Italian – this webinar could be an interesting opportunity to share ideas, think together about co-creation and explore current case studies and future research.
You can read below the post just shared by the organisers in Italian.
Continue reading “Free Webinar on AI-Powered Storytelling: Can we train AI through Storytelling? (in Italian)”
Antonia Liguori / Participatory Storytelling 