Digital Storytelling
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“Stories are the large and small instruments of meaning, of explanation, that we store in our memories.” Joe Lambert / Roger Schank “Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me a truth and I’ll believe. Tell me a story and I’ll remember forever.” Saying
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“Stories are the large and small instruments of meaning, of explanation, that we store in our memories.”
Joe Lambert / Roger Schank
“Tell me a factand I’ll learn.Tell me a truth and I’ll believe.Tell me a story and I’ll remember forever.”
Saying
Digital Storytelling
Gail Matthews-DeNatale, Ph.D.Associate Director, Academic Technology
Sylvia Maxfield, Ph.D.Associate Professor, School of Management
Melissa PernaMelissa MakofskeSchool of Management Graduate Students
Simmons College
AdditionalPerspectives
Rachel FranchiSophomore
Vaughn RogersSophomore
Ellen GoodmanSSW Field Education Faculty
Presentation Overview
1. Gail: What are digital stories? What does it feel like to make one? What’s the educational value?
2. Sylvia: How and why I added a digital case option to my class.
3. Melissa2: Our digital case and our perspective on the experience
Part I
What are digital stories? What does it feel like to make one? What’s the educational value?
Faculty-Produced Digital Story
Reflection on an Unresolved Life Experience
In comparison, what are the similarities/differences between the experiences of academic writing and digital story-making?
“Digital stories” are manifestations (evidence) of student thought
But the same can be said of writing. What’s so special about digital storytelling?
Digital Storytelling and Writing
Flow, Senses, Represent Internal/External
What’s the value of (digital) storytelling for higher education?
Challenging Questions for Educators
How can we help students increase the amount of time they devote to reflection and critical thinking?
How can we help students articulate what they are learning?
How can we help students remember and care about learning?
The Value of Digital Storytelling
Memorable, Reflective, Transformative …
•Combines visual, aural, and kinesthetic learning
•Iterative production process encourages revisiting, reflecting on meaning
•Increases literacy/fluency across media
•Connects prior life experiences, course, and other co-curricular learning
•Can be shared beyond academia
The Value of Digital Story-Making
Story-Making Learning Cycle
Reflection& Analysis
Share withOthers
Experience
Deeper PersonalUnderstanding
FutureStories
A Word on the Value of Rubrics
Storyboard/Script FeedbackCriteria
Outstanding Satisfactory Poor Why?
Has A Point (of View)- purpose- stance
Engaging- interesting- surprising- thought-provoking
Quality Script/Voice- well spoken- good pacing- music, if any, furthers message
Use of Images/Video- w. voice, adds new dimension- visual flow
Wise Economy/Detail- pacing- pare away AND- dig deeper
What are the “lessons learned,” our tips and recommendations for support?
Inevitability and Importance of
• The Process (instructional design, feedback)
• Collaboration(the joys and pitfalls)
• The Experience (intense and somewhat out of control)
Observations and Recommendations
“Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts. ”
Salman Rushdie
Final Words
