Academic Computing is pleased to announce our first “Emerging Technologies and Pie” event of the semester, Digital Storytelling, on Thursday, March 26th, 1:00-2:15 p.m. Digital stories are short, reflective video pieces that traditionally combine photos, music, and narration to tell “real-life stories.” Most stories are 5 minutes or less and consist of compelling, emotionally-engaging personal narratives. This…
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Faculty Spotlight: Tom Schiff on Digital Storytelling
Aline Gubrium and Tom Schiff were two of the first people we know to use Digital Storytelling at UMass. A rather long time ago we had a chance to sit down and chat with Tom Schiff about his experience using Digital Storytelling in his teaching, here is the recording of our conversation. Our apologies to Tom…
A Journey in Digital Storytelling
This past weekend Tony and I immersed ourselves in the incredibly transformative process of digital storytelling. We rode the Amtrak down to Philadelphia, PA and stepped into a group of 8 other folks with diverse backgrounds and intentions for developing a particular style of communication. The 3-day hands-on tutorial, presented by the Center for Digital…
Web 2.0 Wednesday #4: Video in the Classrom, Digital Storytelling
We’ve already touched on the potentials of YouTube for locating educational materials, but a topic we have not directly addressed on this blog is the potentials of authoring your own video content, or having students author their own original video content. This week’s Web 2.0 blog post looks at incorporating video into the classroom, specifically…
Next “Emerging Technology and Pie” Event: Digital Storytelling
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.”…
On the Horizon: Digital Storytelling
During our audio and video workshops this June we’ve seen several faculty give demonstrations of how they have their students produce short video or audio projects as assignments. In some cases, these are simple personal statements (several based their assigments on the format used in the NPR “This I Believe” Project), others had their students…