Fred Mindlin is a teaching artist, an arts integration advocate & social justice activist with a passion for string games, writing, and digital storytelling. He teaches string figures as performance art. He is also a Teacher Consultant with the Central California Writing Project at UCSC and CCWP's Technology Liaison to the NWP. Fred taught 3rd & 4th grade for 10 years with Alianza Charter School's 2-way dual immersion program. He spent the last 7 years of his public school teaching career as a self-funded technology integration specialist. He is an active participant in the Connected Learning MOOC and leads ongoing face-to-face groups in support of the #clmooc. His "Original Digital" Project points up how string games are the original digital stories. He is now integrating movement and improvisation as well, so that we together explore embodied cognition and collaborative communication - Core Connect.