The Heritage Interpretation Training Center
Autumn 2022 Storytelling Courses.
Hi Folks. Here are three of our fall courses on Interpretive Storytelling. Each course focuses on different aspects of writing copy and telling stories, that visitors can connect with and remember the main interpretive themes and message. You can start these courses at any time and complete the course at your own pace. Each course includes live chats with the course instructor (Prof. John Veverka) to help coach you through each course, resource materials, and Continuing Education Unit credits
Visit the course website for course content details, costs and tuition payment. Any questions feel free to ask.
John Veverka
The Heritage Interpretation Training Center
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Interpreting "the rest of the story", a powerful Interpretive communications technique for revealing and releasing the "rest of the stories" hidden in artifacts, objects, historical figures/events, landscapes, or sites through both live presentations and interpretive media text and label copy.
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Interpreting Legends Myths and Fables – telling the story within the stories.
When I was a Seasonal Interpretive Naturalist with Ohio State Parks and doing my evening campfire programs, the visitors always wanted a story. From ghost stories to Bigfoot to things that go bump in the night - they wanted the story. Amazingly, many legends and myths have some bases in reality, or taught a lesson.
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When there's nothing left but the story – Interpreting the Abandoned. Interpretive storytelling when there’s nothing left but the story.
Interpreting the stories of abandoned landscapes, cabin/homes, farm fence line, battlefields, archaeological ruins, heritage sites or artifacts left behind/abandoned by their owners and in need of a storyteller.
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Interpretive Writing for copy for museum labels, outdoor panels or storytelling scripts. How to develop copy that is theme and objective based, and “provokes, relates and reveals” the story of the objects or artifacts to the visitors. 100 words for panels and 50 words for on-wall museum exhibits? Want to know why? What the research tells us.