Digital Storytelling

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Digital Storytelling

• In the humanities and beyond

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What is digital storytelling?

• Images audio digital media design
• Affinities with short films and documentaries,
  but with an emphasis on accessibility and
  personal foci

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Digital Storytelling Workshop

• Center for Digital Storytelling
  http//www.storycenter.org
• Primary focus on personal stories
• Strengths
• Succinct intro to photo and film editing software
• Very low instructor-student ratio

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Digital Storytelling Workshop

• Weaknesses
• Mac platform (Highline is primarily PC platform)
  software used not readily available
• Personal note easy to make the digital story
  into therapy-on-a-budget

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Digital Storytelling as a Pedagogical Tool

• In writing excellent tool to teach or reinforce
  visual literacy, media literacy, a variety of
  rhetorical modes
• In literature opportunity to create a form of
  new literature help situate literature within an
  understanding of history, art or other cultural
  concerns
• In other disciplines opportunity to present and
  process content and skills in a creative,
  hands-on manner

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Challenges of Digital Storytelling as a
Pedagogical Tool

• Access to technology
• PowerPoint option available
• Photo editor Non-linear film editor
• Advanced software options Macromedia, Movie
  Maker, etc.
• Audio software recording hardware
• Learning outcome impact may be discipline-specific
  
• Therapy-on-a-budget

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Links and Resources

• Digital storytelling in education, families and
  overseas http//electronicportfolios.com/digistory
  /
• Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
• http//www.coe.uh.edu/digital-storytelling/
• Storytelling in Higher Education Supporting
  Reflection on Practice to Support Deep Learning
  pdf from Kean University conference on Digital
  Storytelling http//electronicportfolios.com/portf
  olios/Kean.pdf
• SITE Digital Storytelling Blog
• http//sitedigitalstory.blogspot.com
• Sample digital stories
• Woman in Black Boots (Marie St. Angelo Caso)
  http//www.youtube.com/watch?vY1m93kprVvs
• University of Houston examples http//www.coe.u
  h.edu/digital-storytelling/examples.htm
• Wondering as I Wander (Mine) http//www.youtube.
  com/watch?vINYGUGrMkVI