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Digital Storytelling

Page history last edited by Michael Coventry 14 years, 9 months ago

Led by Michael Coventry from Georgetown University

 

example: https://digitalcommons.georgetown.edu/projects/digitalstories/

 

Finished projects can also be accompanied by a reflection paper because the finished project can't accomodate everything that went into it.

 

From the above website:

What is Digital Storytelling? Digital stories are multimedia-authoring projects combining texts, images, and audio files into a short film clip (mostly 3-5 minutes).

 

Citation Issues 

How do we work with citations in digital storytelling?

  • People need to think about translating paper citation structure into movie credits.
  • Citations aren't so much about rules as they are about pointing outside your text.
  • They need to think about why they are using a particular source to make the finished project better. What is the rhetorical practice? How does it support your argument.
    • Give people reading from Latour about citation in the sciences that can help humanities people have a different sense of how it all fits together.
  • What are the conventions of the moving image for including citations? List of credits at the end of a project are taken from a print context.
  • You could make two different versions of the movie, one with Easter eggs that help you see citations and one that pops things up (using YouTube pop-ups).
  • Vertov: A media annotating plug-in for Zotero.
  • VoiceThread: another tool for sharing documents and collaborating/commenting.

 

Multimedia Literacy 

How do we build skills in undergraduate students for applications?

  • Which application do we teach?
  • Or do we teach principles?

 

Assessment 

How do we evaluate multimedia work?

  • We can tell students what we see in the piece. And they can tell us if there is something that we missed. And then we can work with them to figure out how to communicate that more effectively.
    • This is obviously the same process that we engage in when doing regular academic writing.

 

Links to suggested tools for assessment:

 

Assignment Design 

How can we design effective assignments for our students?

  • Hard things: it needs to be open-ended, but students just want to know how to go about getting As.
  • Can we share our assignments with one another?

 

Big Themes/Action Items

  • Composite site for people to post resources/assignments
    • Reflective pieces that say what did work and what didn't work
    • You could tag assignments to the particular state-mandated learning outcomes
    • Rubrics for assessment
  • Start a Zotero Group: Digital Storytelling in Education
  • Fleshing out tools on DiRT for digital storytelling
  • Change the gen-ed requirements according to which we develop curriculum
  • Think about citations and appropriate ways to do this
  • Teach principles rather than particular tools
    • But also teach people how to learn new tools

 

Additional Examples:

Other stories from more recent Coventry students: http://gnovisjournal.org/coventry

Website from University of Houston (education students): http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/

 

 

 

 

 

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