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NERCOMP EVENT
Involving Students in Digital Storytelling
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Digital storytelling, 3-5 minute videos that tell personal stories, holds great promise for enhancing student learning, extending school-based learning out into the surrounding community, and improving student technology fluencies. In addition, recent developments in technology make digital stories relatively easy to make and distribute over the web. Come see examples of digital story-making in higher education, find out about resources that are freely available, and learn strategies for implementing this type of project at your own institution.
Workshop Organizer/Host: Gail Matthews-DeNatale of Simmons College
Date/Time:
Monday, September 24, 2007
9:00am - 3:00am
Registration begins at 8:00am
Location:
College of the Holy Cross
Hogan Campus Center, Third Floor - Ballroom
Parking is at the Hogan Campus Center
Worcester, MA
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Pricing:
NERCOMP Members: $72
Non-Members: $172
By clicking on the "Register" button below, you are indicating a commitment to attend and will be held responsible for the registration fee.
Your fee can be refunded if you notify us of a cancellation at least 8 days prior to the event via email to nercomp@nercomp.org.
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Additional Information
Event Schedule:
8:00am – 9:00am Registration and Coffee
9:00am – 10:15am Intergenerational Collaboration Through Digital Storytelling
Speaker: Bill Shewbridge, Producer / Manager New Media Studio, University of Maryland
Used in intergenerational settings, digital storytelling presents a rich opportunity for collaboration, personal reflection, and the sharing of experiences and memories. Through a unique partnership between University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and the Retirement Living Television Network, students are working with senior citizens to produce short digital movies for personal sharing and broadcast. This presentation will discuss the project and the challenges of delivering a broadcast product while maintaining focus on the pedagogical values of the digital storytelling process.
10:15am – 10:30am Break
10:30am – 11:45am Digital Storytelling: What Are Your Options?
Speaker: Alicia Russell, Director EdTech Center, Northeastern University
At Northeastern University (NEU) in Boston, coop students create 3-5 minute videos about their “Northeastern Experience,” literally telling the story of their learning (http://edtech.neu.edu/news_events/?id=45). Over the past few years, NEU’s EdTech Center has experimented with methods for producing these stories, including the development of an online tool for use by students who have no video production training. This presentation will showcase examples and a variety of strategies for involving students in the production of digital stories.
11:45am – 12:45pm Lunch
12:45pm – 2:00pm A Community of Storytellers
Speakers:
Gayle Barton, Director of Instructional Technology, Williams College
Trevor Murphy, Instructional Technology Specialist, Williams College
Digital storytelling at Williams has become a standard part of how Instructional Technology introduces video to faculty, staff, and students. About 175 people (75 faculty/staff and 100 students) have attended 15 such workshops since 2002. Participants create a 3 - 5 minute film. Some have gone on to create feature-length films, incorporate digital storytelling in their teaching, or use digital storytelling for student orientation. Participants learn something about video hardware and software, but they also learn about themselves and each other. Most people view the workshop an intense but deeply positive experience. It might be for this reason alone that Instructional Technology continues to offer digital storytelling workshops for interested faculty and staff, and to teach digital storytelling to students. In our presentation, we will share the digital storytelling process; some finished products from faculty, staff, and students; and some particularly noteworthy uses of digital storytelling in teaching.
2:00pm – 3:00pm Digital Storytelling: What (and How) Are They Learning
Speaker: Gail Matthews-DeNatale, Associate Director, Academic Technology, Simmons College
Digital storytelling is, in essence, a different mode of learning. Those who have experienced the process know its pedagogical value. But how can one explain the experience to people who haven’t tried it? At Simmons College, Academic Technology conducted interviews with faculty and students. The result is this presentation on the relationship between digital story composition and learning.
3:00pm End
Speaker:
Alicia Russell
Alicia Russell is the founding director of Northeastern University's Educational Technology Center and its web development branch, The Center for Innovative Course Design. Her principal interests center on using technology as a catalyst for educational change. Her research focuses on the exploration of how technology can be used to improve education on the course, program, college and institutional levels.
Speaker:
Bill Shewbridge
Bill Shewbridge has served as manager of University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s New Media Studio since its inception in 2001. His recent work includes the development of several "Digital Storytelling" projects involving residents at Charlestown Retirement Community. He sits on the advisory board of the New Media Consortium's Horizon Report, which looks at new and emerging technologies over the next one to five years. Bill holds a Doctor of Communications Design (D.C.D.) from the University of Baltimore and has more than twenty years of experience at UMBC providing educational media support and expertise.
Speaker:
Gail Matthews-DeNatale
Gail Matthews-DeNatale is Associate Director of Academic Technology at Simmons College, where she has worked for five years. She has fifteen years of experience developing, implementing, and assessing online educational projects. Previously, she served on the education faculty of George Mason University, was Projects Manager for Northeastern University's EdTech Center, and Learning and Technology Specialist at TERC (a Cambridge-based science education non-profit organization). Gail holds a Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University, which helps explain her fascination with digital storytelling.
Speaker:
Gayle Barton
Gayle Barton is Director of Instructional Technology at Williams College. The Instructional Technology group includes the faculty support liaisons, media services, computer labs and digital media studios, and the development of instructional support projects. She has been at Williams for seven years, following 20 years in academic computing, administrative computing, or teaching on other campuses.
Speaker:
Trevor Murphy
Trevor Murphy is an Instructional Technology Specialist at Williams College. He has been at Williams for 6 years. Before his time at Williams, he served in the US Peace Corps in the country of Jordan and taught high school science in North Carolina through Teach for America. He has most recently used digital story telling as an orientation tool for summer student interns working on faculty projects.
Related Media Files:
NERCOMP 2007.ppt
NERCOMP_DS_SIG_SLIDES.pdf
DSbooklet_contents.pdf
Contact Information:
Lisa DiMauro
860-345-2081
ldimauro@wesleyan.edu
Hotel Information:
Rooms are available at the Comfort Inn, 426 Southbridge Street in Auburn, MA.
Please state that you are with NERCOMP and you will receive the reduced rate of $85, includes continental breakfast & internet access.
Call the hotel directly at: 1-508-832-8300
The room block will be held until September 20, 2007.
For additional information go to:
http://www.comfortinn.com
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