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Bringing Digital Storytelling to the Classroom LearnShop
Summer 2007
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About Digital Storytelling...
For the past few years, Linda Hicks and Rachel Woodburn have been team teaching a Digital Storytelling class at Scottsdale community college, as well as internationally in New Zealand and Australia. For more, see A Story About Teaching Digital Storytelling at Scottsdale Community College in the Spring 2004 mcli Forum.
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Bringing Digital Storytelling to the Classroom LearnShop (Summer 2007)
| Sample Stories | | "Grandma Chuppa" | by Kim Chuppa-Cornell
(Chandler-Gilbert Community College)
a participant in the August 2004 LearnShop
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This workshop is an introduction of storytelling as a teaching and learning tool.
We will explore the power of storytelling for teachers, students, and their connection to subject matter. We will guide teachers with interactive exercises identifying ways to find voice, place, and memory. Teachers will work through the process of creating their own digital stories while being introduced to desktop production tools. Each teacher will create a 3-5 minute digital story preserved onto DVD, CD, mini DV, and or VHS.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe and understand storytelling as a teaching and learning tool.
- Participate in interactive exercises identifying ways to find voice, place, and memory.
- Identify the elements of storytelling.
- Exploration of the power of storytelling for the teacher, students, and their connection to subject matter.
- Create a map and/or storyboard for production.
- Use desktop production tools in the creation of a 3-5 minute digital story
- Preserved onto DVD, CD, mini DV, and or VHS.
Discipline Applications:
- Utilizing Instructors Digital story as an introduction to a course.
- Incorporating elements of storytelling or technology to improve classroom participation, interaction, and retention. .
- Utilizing a digital story to bring understanding and connection to a difficult subject or section of classroom teaching.
Time and Place
Scottsdale Community College
ART Building
8:00am - 5:00pm May 21 - 25, 2007
Facilitators
Rachel Woodburn is Computer Graphics Instructor at Scottsdale Community College. She has taught in SCC's Art department for ten years, five of which have been full time. Most recently she has been working with Photography and the manipulation of Digital Imagery while focusing on the creation and teaching of Digital Storytelling.
Linda Hicks is a speech communication professor at SCC. She has taught at SCC since 1984 and has been RFP faculty in the Department of Communication and Performance Arts since 1991. For the past four years, her focus has been storytelling as a teaching/learning tool. Collaboratively teaching Digital Storytelling with Rachel Woodburn has been her primary focus for the past two years.
Cheryl Colan teaches Digital Multimedia and Computer Graphics courses at Scottsdale Community College and at Phoenix College, where she has been an adjunct in the Art department for the last two years. After taking the first Digital Storytelling course offered by Linda Hicks and Rachel Woodburn, she was hooked, and was thrilled to teach Digital Storytelling at Phoenix College during the Fall 2005 semester. She is currently working on launching a free community media center in the downtown Phoenix area.
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