The DigiTale project aims to promote ICT skills among inmates in Catalonia's prisons through digital storytelling. Inmates and staff participate in training workshops to produce audio stories, video stories, photo stories, video posters, digital narratives, and digital magazines using free software and simple equipment. The project is part of a larger AlfaDigital program that incorporates ICT into prison life through initiatives like computer recycling and Internet access. Over 125 inmates and staff have been trained since 2011, with their digital stories shared online and in traveling exhibitions.

1. Project DigiTale
ICT Competences and digital stories
Primedia, 1st Conference
Bologna, 3-6 September 2013
Julio Zino & Jaume Martin
Direction General of Penitentiary Services, Catalonia

2. DigiTale Project
Digitale project is part of AlfaDigital Program that
aims to incorporate ICT in everyday life prison
Other projects integrated in AlfaDigital Program:
:: Cyberaules: computer recycling and free
software
:: ICT / Omnia points: Internet access for inmates
:: ACTIC: accreditation of ICT skills

3. DigiTale Project
Promotion of ICT skills through the production of
digital stories:
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Audio Stories
Video Stories
Photo Stories
Video Posters
Digital Story Telling
dMagaZines
documenTIC

4. 10.022 inmates
All the prisons of Catalonia participating in the
AlfaDigital program
44,5 % Foreign
55,5 % Nationals
93,4 % Man
4,2 % Youth (18-21)
6,6 % Women
CP FIGUERES
CP GIRONA
Data 31.07.13
CP LLEDONERS
CP QUATRE CAMINS
CP PONENT
CP JOVES
CP BRIANS 1
CP BRIANS 2
CP DONES BARCELONA
CP HOMES BARCELONA
CP TARRAGONA
CP OBERT 1 BARCELONA
CP OBERT 2 BARCELONA
Prison centres participating in the Digitale project 

5. DigiTale: training in digital storytelling
• Training with cumulative capsules organized around a
final product:
– AudioStories and VídeoStories; FotoStories; dMagaZines;
VideoPosters; DigitalNarratives
– Duration: 2-3 sessions / capsule | 6-9 hours / capsule
• Through training workshops:
– Inmates + staff: CP 2 Brians, CP Women, CP Girona, CP Men,
CP Youth, CP Lledoners, CP Quatre Camins, other
– 125 people trained (since June 2011)

6. Methodology
• Meaningful learning  connection with personal
experiences
– Empowerment of own abilities  voice, personal
history, skills, knowledge ...
– Structure learning  community of practice
– Ties to a final product accessible and easy to spread
• Using simple technical equipment:
– PC and Microphone
– Free software: Audacity, Movie Maker, OpenShot,
VLC, Gimp, LibreOffice

8. Methodology
• Skills development:
– oral, written, creative, aesthetic
– introduce ICT as a cross curricular theme:
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Editing text
Recording and editing audio
Editing video
Internet
• Share and spread processes and outcomes 
– alfadigital.info blog,
– AlfaDigital Channel in YouTube
– Traveling exhibition Sant Jordi DigiTale (St. George)

9. Exhibition Sant Jordi DigiTale 2013
Traveling exhibition of digital stories about the Saint
George’s Day
Participation:
• 6 prisons
• 100 Inmates
• 8 professionals
• 65 productions

10. Editing audio files

11. Recording voices

12. Training in digital storytelling

13. Cyberaules

14. AlfaDigital Channel in YouTube

15. Blog AlfaDigital

16. AudioStory
literary text is read, recorded
and published as audio, which
you can add music or other
sound effects
(see examples)

17. Example of an AudioStory: “Remains Forbidden”, by Alfredo
Cuervo Potter, attributed to Pablo Neruda (listen)

18. VideoStory
literary text is read,
recorded and edited as
video, images and
music together
(see examples)

19. VideoStory Example: "The masks“, by Mario Benedetti (see video)

20. Digital StoryTelling
They are personal stories that
combines traditional storytelling with
multimedia (photos, video, audio,
music...) that are assembled into a
video.
The basic story is written by each
participant. The same participants are
those who read, recorded and edited
the materials and produce the final
video.
(see examples)

21. Example of a Digital narrative: “Mi madre” (veure vídeo)

22. dMagaZine
(digital magazines):
is a compilation of materials
written or created, read and
recorded by participants, edited
and assembled into an audio
file for its distribution (
vegeu-ne exemples)

23. Exemple of a dMagaZine: “Universo Cultural, el magazine abierto”
(escoltar la 18ª edició)

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Blog: AlfaDigital: TIC i Presó
Twitter: XarxaDigital
Facebook: ProjecteAlfaDigital
SlideShare: XarxaDigital
YouTube: XarxaDigital
e-mail: nppct.dj@gencat.cat

25. Our experience in ICT in prison
You can see an overview video at:
http://dotsub.com/view/0722b082-5f03-43c5-bb0a-ca5795ec4e23
http://www.alfadigital.info/moodle/course/view.php?id=24
“The impact in prison of ICT and Internet”