Miss the National Storytelling Festival?

Sirius Satellite Radio is airing the stories from the festival! If you subscribe to satellite radio, check it out!

Storytelling will have its own channel, Storytelling Radio, on channel 113. If you'd like to give it a try, you can sign up for a 30-day free trial at www.sirius.com/30dayfreepass.

For all of you educator/storytellers...

For those interested in youth storytelling and storytelling in a school environment, why not sign up for Becky Everly's media specialist workshop?

Get tips and tools for encouraging kids' storytelling at the Media Specialist Workshop

Where: Park Hill School District (7703 NW Barry Rd.)

When: Nov. 3, 2010

Time: Noon-3:30 p.m.

Cost: $12 – including lunch

RSVP: 816.604.3011

As anyone who has ever worked in a school, library or other place where kids congregate can attest, creative youths can certainly tell some whopping stories! Storytelling clubs, popping up in schools and public libraries everywhere, are places for kids to be creative, develop confidence and public speaking skills and have a good time learning about everything from culture to current events to each other.

Educator Becky Everly, will be on hand to demonstrate how teachers, school and public librarians and media specialist can encourage creative kids through storytelling clubs.

You must RSVP - we want to be sure there's enough food to go around!

Ira Glass on storytelling, part 1

For those of you always looking for new and interesting ways to tell stories, listen to stories, create stories, dismantle stories - I offer this as a kind of professional development tool, especially for educators teaching others and those interested in helping others formulate and tell their stories.



Ira Glass is a radio personality - he's the host of This American Life, which airs on Public Radio International. He's talking here about broadcast storytelling, such as radio or television, but the points he makes are excellent.

Watch and enjoy :)