{"id":142,"date":"2016-05-09T11:23:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T11:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/my-grandmothers-hat\/"},"modified":"2016-05-09T11:23:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T11:23:33","slug":"my-grandmothers-hat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marianafun.es\/ds106\/my-grandmothers-hat\/","title":{"rendered":"My grandmother\u2019s hat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was going to call this post\u00a0\u2018The improvisational And\u2019 but I thought above was much more #DS106 mysterious…<\/p>\n

We have been dealing with the serious matter of #sockgate on DS106 over the last few days. Check the hashtag on Twitter and also listen to @Scottlo\u00a0\u2018s second podcast<\/a>\u00a0if you have a need for background.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This reflection post is my attempt to pull together some ideas about what makes \u2018storytelling in the wild\u2019 work (or not) under the #DS106 hashtag.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Scott\u2019s podcast explores what it has been like for him to come back into DS106 after not being around for a while. The podcast is not self-referential. Scott uses his experience to wonder what it may be like for somebody coming in new to DS106 and who may just be doing Daily Creates<\/a>, for example. He suggests that may be those of us who have been around for a while may have a lesson to learn when we \u2018bring back to life\u2019 stories from the past – the essence of his inquiry is: are we making some people feel excluded? Alan\u2019s is clear in his response to Scott in the comments:<\/p>\n

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If it looks like other people are having fun in ds106, and you want to have fun, well jump in the game, or ask someone. I don\u2019t have much sympathy for people who sit on the sidelines and cry about being left out. I\u2019m having too much fun in the mix.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So there are two views on one experience highlighting different elements. One that suggests certain\u00a0\u2018in jokes\u2019 may be excluding and one that says\u00a0\u2018if you want to join in and don\u2019t understand, just ask us.\u2019 We cannot know how everyone who joins DS106 will feel. I can say that when I joined, it never felt excluding. If I did not know, I asked or googled and then joined in. Easy. But it is a personal thing, some people may need more context. Yes, I would say the clue is in the title: Digital Storytelling.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I often talk about DS106 and its\u00a0\u2018oral tradition of storytelling\u2019 and the socks are a great example of that. Since DS106 started there have been many stories told by many different people. The stories evolve over time, they appear and reappear. If you are new to this game, it can seem excluding and a game that only who were\u00a0\u2018there\u2019 can play – playfully expressed by @dogtrax<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kathy Onarheim<\/a> finds other stories in the DS106 oral tradition,<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere is something with hedgehogs \u2013 not sure what the story is \u2013 but they show up now and again and cause some conversation\u2026kinda like socks\u2026.you don\u2019t need to know the original story \u2013 just jump on and weave the next chapter\u2026. I see @mdvfunes drawing hedge hogs and @annycow tweeting about them and even @mburtis in this snuggle with one\u2026has to be stories here somewhere!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cYou do not need to know the original story, just jump in and start weaving.\u201d And we can certainly weave: Dolls, paper bags for president, time travelling motorcycles, transporter tree houses, fake families, sock fraud, student revolutions and on and on…<\/p>\n

In DS106 we do different type of stories. Some are neatly packaged in a video or in a radio show, others are improvisational in nature and evolve over time. The clue is in the title – this is about storytelling. When you do a formal run of the course or run through the open course, there is whole module on\u00a0\u2018weaving stories on the web\u2019. It is just digital improvisation, we make up characters and places and events and run with them. Just like #sockgate. Sure, it makes more sense to those who were\u00a0\u2018there\u2019 but we can all jump in and weave, as Kathy says.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It seems to me that what may help new people who are uncertain about improvisational storytelling online is the same thing that helps us learn how to improvise elsewhere: My grandmother\u2019s hat. Now go back and read the story at the start of this post. It is and excerpt from Piers Ibbotson\u2019s book<\/a>. In improvisational theatre this is called the\u00a0\u2018Yes, and\u2019 game. It is the only way the telling of a spontaneous story between people can work. At least I trust the father of improvisational theatre Keith Johnstone on that. Archive.org has the full original tex<\/a>t if you want to learn more. He describes the process as\u00a0\u2018blocking or accepting\u2019 \u00a0– if we block, the story dies; if we accept, it gets told. He does say that the same is true in life, but I will not digress now.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In this context, we block when we stop ourselves from joining in because we do not know what went on before today. We accept when we say: Sock Fraud? I can do that. I want the socks you promised us, Jim. Or, there were never any socks! Or, you are all a bunch of \u00a0\u2018sockists\u2019! Or….<\/p>\n

Yes, this is true and what is also true is…See how it works? Facts are not relevant, we build on what is being spoken (or tweeted) as we go.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So for the record I want to remind everyone that:<\/p>\n

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…but maybe, just maybe, Jim\u00a0\u2018the Impresario from the Web Hosting racket\u2019 (listen to Scottlo on this – linked above) is plotting his next sock move with Gardner at the Italian Gelateria Pingu in\u00a0Via Sant’Anna…<\/p>\n

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