What’s New
2022 International Digital Storytelling Conference CFP Now Available
Our next International Digital Storytelling Conference is planned for June 20-22 at Loughborough University. The…
Community Partner Digital Storytelling Workshop 2021
During the Spring semester of 2021, UMBC’s Shriver Center hosted a digital storytelling workshop with…
DST Conference 2021: “Storytelling for a Just Future”
On June 21-22, an online 26-hour Digital Storytelling ‘marathon’ was held, following the sun across different…
Conversations on Digital Storytelling
Learning with Baltimore’s Immigrant Communities: A Conversation with Tania Lizarazo
Tania Lizarazo is an Assistant Professor in Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communications at UMBC. Her research interests include digital…
Finding the Story in the Middle: A Conversation with Denise Johnson and Lee Boot
Lee Boot and Denise Johnson have collaborated on several community-based projects in Baltimore in which storytelling has played a key…
Sonic Storytelling: A Conversation with Earl Brooks
Earl Brooks is an Assistant Professor of English at UMBC. He uses storytelling in the classroom as a means of…
Project Gallery
Community Partner Digital Storytelling Workshop 2021
During the Spring semester of 2021, UMBC’s Shriver Center hosted a digital storytelling workshop with some of our community partners….
A Place Called Poppleton
A Place Called Poppleton documents the history and culture of the Poppleton neighborhood of Southwest Baltimore. UMBC students will produce a StoryMap digital walking…
Baltimore Green Space Podcasts
During the Fall 2020 semester, MCS MLL 495/695 created podcasts highlighting the work of Baltimore Greenspace, Baltimore’s environmental land…
Cast Your Whole Vote
In response to the 2020 election, students in MCS ART 395 created a series of videos in collaboration with the…
Global Voices in a Time of Pandemic
During the first month of the Fall 2020 semester, students from UMBC’s MCS 495/695 and Hong Kong University’s CAES2002 classes…
Shriver Peaceworker Program
Every year students in the Shriver Center’s Peaceworker Program’s Summer Pro Seminar create digital stories reflecting on their service and…
Maryland Traditions
Maryland Traditions is the folklife program of the Maryland State Arts Council. Since 1974, state-employed folklorists have worked to identify,…
A Walk Down West Baltimore Street
Baltimore Traces Project Highlights SOWEBO Neighborhood A part of UMBC’s ongoing Baltimore Traces Project. A Walk Down West Baltimore Street…
The Digital Decameron
Global Digital Story Festival – Where I Find Strength “In 1348 a party of wealthy young patricians take refuge from…
Project PLASE – Our Stories
“Project PLASE: Our Stories” is a compilation of the stories of PLASE clients and is a collaboration between Project PLASE…
Wall Stories
During the fall semester of 2019, students in three UMBC classes (MCS 495, GERM 301 and GERM 319) collaborated in…
UMBC Service Awards Profiles
In what has become a UMBC tradition, the New Media Studio works with the office of Human Relations to create…
Intercultural Communication & Video Ethnography
MCS MLL 406/606, 495/695 These courses introduce the history and practices of the field of intercultural communication, including its diverse…
The Charlestown Project
The Charlestown Digital Story Project teams UMBC students with residents of Charlestown Retirement Community to create digital stories. Drawn from…
Mill Stories
SPARROWS POINT STEELWORKERS AND COMMUNITY SPEAK Mill Stories is a collaborative project bringing together UMBC students to help preserve stories…
Stories from The Linehan Art Scholars Program
With the goal of building a greater sense of community in the Linehan Artist Scholars Program, students in the Linehan…
UMBC Faculty Workshops
Beginning in 2007 the New Media Studio has offered faculty workshops in digital storytelling. Initially these were facilitated by the…
Stories from the Shriver Center’s Brazil Leadership Camp
From July 2-11, 2013, 12 young people from Brazil attended a leadership camp through The Shriver Center at UMBC. The…
Stories from Spanish 401-601
Ana Oskoz of the Modern Languages Linguistic and Intercultural Communication department uses digital stories in the elementary courses for Spanish…
First-Year Seminar
MUCH IN COMMON: INTERGENERATIONAL TEAMS CREATE VIDEOS ABOUT IDENTITY AND WISDOM This first-year seminar class explores common themes in both…
Exploring Youth Activism Through Digital Storytelling
SEMINAR IN AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY In spring 2011 graduate students examined the history of American Youth Activism from 1945-1975 while…
Arbutus Library Project
During the spring semester of 2010 and again in 2011, students in MLL 495/695 Intercultural Video Production worked with residents…
Constructing the Samurai
DIGITAL STORIES FROM HONORS 300-4/HIST355-2 In “Constructing the Samurai” students used digital story techniques to explore aspects of samurai culture…
AFSC Project Voice
SOMALI BANTU REFUGEES SPEAK THROUGH DIGITAL STORIES In October 2008, the New Media Studio worked with members of the Somali…
German Immigration into the US
DIGITAL STORIES FROM GERMAN 303 In the Fall of 2009, Susanna Sutton, lecturer of German with the Modern Languages, Linguistics…
ESL Stories
In summer and fall 2008, Polina Vinogradova incorporated digital stories into the curriculum of the English Language Institute. This approach…