Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Moose Jaw Times-Herald: Student stories shared through iMovie

King George Elementary School has digital storytelling workshop

Holly Cunningham (left) and Cassie Lamb (right),
two Grade 7 students at King George Elementary
School, work on their digital stories at the digital
storytelling workshop led by Evie Ruddy with
SaskCulture in the afternoon of June 10, 2014.
Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy
By Lisa Goudy


King George Elementary School Grade 7 student Holly Cunningham had mixed feelings when she and her family left Ireland for Moose Jaw almost a year ago.

“It was really sad leaving because we were still at security and we could still see everyone crying, but it was really good because we knew that (Canada) was a much better place than home,” she said. 

“There’s money here and we just have to suck it up because we will be back, obviously. It was kind of happy and kind of sad at the same time.”

That was the focus of her digital story during the two-day digital storytelling workshop at King George Elementary School on Monday morning and Tuesday afternoon with Evie Ruddy, an animateur with SaskCulture.

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