Digital Storytelling: Perspectives on Teaching and Learning

Abstract

A digital storytelling assignment can be a powerful tool for engaging students in authentic learning, exploring new technologies, and thinking critically about the nature of knowledge production. This hands-on workshop will introduce faculty to the possibilities and practicalities of teaching with digital storytelling. Participants will start by creating a short digital story from a pre-selected group of images and multimedia clips with a userfriendly, free, online tool and will then hear from two students, one graduate and one undergraduate, who have completed digital storytelling assignments. Participants will work together to think creatively and critically about the potential of digital storytelling assignments, how to craft and assess a substantive, content-rich assignment, and how digital storytelling can be effective across disciplines, looking at examples from humanities, science, arts, and education.