Our third and final Emerging Technology and Pie event of the semester will be Thursday April 17th, 1:15-2:15. The topic for the event will be Digital Storytelling, our guest speakers are Aline Gubrium and Tom Schiff, instructors for Public Health course “Community Development in Health Education: Technological Approaches to Addressing Community Health and Social Justice.”
Digital stories are short reflective video pieces created by students that traditionally combine photos, music, and narration to tell “real-life stories.” These stories are usually short (less than 5 minutes.) Because digital storytelling is popular for telling personal stories they are often compelling and emotionally engaging.
Aline Gubrium and Tom Schiff will discuss their use of digital storytelling as part of their course. Their students utilized voice recordings, iMovie and Movemaker, Photoshop, and Web resources for photos and sound. Through this project they sought to to help students bring a personal voice to public health issues.
If you are interested in attending this event, please follow this link to the registration form:
http://www.umass.edu/accoprod/workshop/register.php?s=2008-sp-pie
About Emerging Technology and Pie
“Emerging Technology and Pie” is an interest group for faculty and instructors who are interested in learning about the latest technologies being used for learning and teaching. These sessions are intended as quick overviews with discussions about the application of these tools. If you are interested in hands-on training in these tools, we are happy to provide it through the Instructional Media Lab (instruct@oit.umass.edu or 545-2823). Faculty have priority for these sessions when seats are limited. And yes, we really do serve pie.