Story Work for Communities and Higher Education
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
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
During the spring semester of 2010 and again in 2011, students in MLL 495/695 Intercultural Video Production worked with residents of Arbutus and surrounding communities on a collaborative video project. In “Arbutus Stories” residents reflect on their life-long association with the community through digital stories. Each resident teamed with a student to create short movies … Read more
DIGITAL STORIES FROM HONORS 300-4/HIST355-2 In “Constructing the Samurai” students used digital story techniques to explore aspects of samurai culture through visual assignments. The honors class was taught by Professor Constantine Vaporis during the Fall 2009 and 2010 semesters. Here are the results:
SOMALI BANTU REFUGEES SPEAK THROUGH DIGITAL STORIES In October 2008, the New Media Studio worked with members of the Somali Bantu community to create digital stories as part of the American Friends Service Commitee’s “Project Voice.” The production workshop was facilitated by the Center for Digital Storytelling with a final production session at UMBC’s International Media Center. … Read more
DIGITAL STORIES FROM GERMAN 303 In the Fall of 2009, Susanna Sutton, lecturer of German with the Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication Department (MLLI) taught an Advanced German 303 topics course, “German Immigration into the US”. During the semester students worked on their own digital stories (in German) in which they recounted an experience … Read more
In summer and fall 2008, Polina Vinogradova incorporated digital stories into the curriculum of the English Language Institute. This approach was utilized in English Language Institute courses focusing on culture and intercultural communication by Polina and two other instructors, Heather Linville and Tsisana Palmer. Later, in 2009, the project expanded and students in ELC-A 504/054 … Read more