Story Work for Communities and Higher Education
Faculty members is many disciplines have applied digital storytelling methods in their teaching in creative ways. In these interviews they discuss their work and how DS has impacted their classrooms.
Students in the Shriver Center’s Peaceworker Program’s Summer Pro Seminar created these stories reflecting on their service and experiences abroad. Program director Joby Taylor talks about how he uses digital storytelling with returning Peace Corp volunteers as a refecive tool as well as a foundation for community work: “We’re doing it to learn and share … Read more
Here is a great article by Polina Vinogradova, based largely on digital story work at UMBC. Digital stories in a language classroom: Engaging students through meaningful multimodal projects http://fltmag.com/digital-stories, Ana Oskoz and Heather Linville also contributed to the article.
Beginning in 2007 the New Media Studio has offered faculty workshops in digital storytelling. Initially these were facilitated by the Center for Digital Storytelling (now storycenter.org .) In 2008 ten participants in a “Train the Trainers” experience received intensive training in the creative and technical aspects of teaching digital storytelling in a variety of contexts. Ten … Read more
Students in Donald Snyder’s MCS 355: Social Media: Networking and Mobility class produced these iPad stories exploring Net Neutrality. Net Neutrality Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6 Group 7 Group 8
From July 2-11, 2013, 12 young people from Brazil attended a leadership camp through The Shriver Center at UMBC. The students are all participants in the English Access Microscholarship Program, which provides English-Language skills to talented young people from economically disadvantaged areas. During their time at UMBC, the students participated in service-learning projects, spent a … Read more
Mill Stories is a collaborative project bringing together UMBC students to help preserve stories from the Sparrows Point community. As the project develops, we hope that this website will present a form of database documentary, in which users can access interviews, videos photos and other cultural materials gathered from the community. Two classes participated … Read more
Ana Oskoz of the Modern Languages Linguistic and Intercultural Communication department uses digital stories in the elementary courses for Spanish and also advanced Spanish courses. “I have use them very differently, even though the goal to some extent is the some one. For the elementary courses, which would be the first course for Spanish, I … Read more
MUCH IN COMMON: INTERGENERATIONAL TEAMS CREATE VIDEOS ABOUT IDENTITY AND WISDOM This first-year seminar class explores common themes in both adolescence and aging, stages in life that can transform a person’s sense of identity. In intergenerational teams, students explore changes in their identities by producing video stories together that focus on common threads, shared insights … Read more
SEMINAR IN AMERICAN POLITICAL HISTORY In spring 2011 graduate students examined the history of American Youth Activism from 1945-1975 while producing digital stories and documentaries. Young Americans were important participants in the social, economic, and political changes that took place across society during the most intense years of the Cold War. The class emphasized skills … Read more