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Enhancing Learning Through Digital Storytelling

Explore digital storytelling as a tool to meet instructional goals, from creating engaging assignments to receiving student feedback. Discover tips for successful implementation, challenges to overcome, and the instructional benefits. Learn how to build learning communities and showcase student work effectively.

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Enhancing Learning Through Digital Storytelling

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  1. Digital Storytelling to Meet Instructional Goals Helene Kalson Cohen Innovations in Teaching & Learning April 24, 2009

  2. Examples • In My Shoes (www.storycenter.org) • Drinking and Driving (http://townson.edu/fuller/digital_storytelling.htm)

  3. Overview • Variety of classes and instructional goals • One specific assignment • Process • Student Work & Feedback • Tips • Problems • Instructional Benefits

  4. EDHI670: Building Learning Communities • Final Project • Outcomes • Synthesis • Make a case • Identify component parts • Demonstrate to instructor

  5. Process • Day One • Blackboard button • How-to in PowerPoint • Overview • Script • Storyboard • Final Product

  6. Examples from Class • Walking in the Woods • Welcome to the Club • RHS School of Business Community

  7. Student Feedback • Novice experience • Blog quotes • Pride for newly acquired skills • Power of images and music to persuade • Integrated the semester’s knowledge • Take responsibility for their own actions

  8. Tips • Role of instructor • Introduce day one • Post examples • Intermediate due dates • Storyboard • Clip art – place holder • Practice narration • Organizing theme or metaphor

  9. Problems • Sound quality • Breathing • Large files • Version of PowerPoint

  10. Benefits • Constructivist • Authentic assessment • Personal voice • Beyond the classroom • Tech fears • Supportive community • Motivating

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