From The Chronicle of Higher Education > The Digital Campus 2014
There are at least three reasons your next syllabus should include some multimedia-production assignment in addition to the standard term paper and final exam. Read more
EDUCAUSE ELI (Education and Learning Initiative) publishes a very useful series of short (two-page) summaries on educational technology topics. Here is an oldie but a goodie about Digital Storytelling
http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/7-things-you-should-know-about-digital-storytelling
Digital Storytelling in the Foreign Language Classroom
by Hayo Reinders
Middlesex University (London, UK)
“Digital storytelling is a compelling activity for the language classroom. Easy to use for both writing and speaking practice, digital storytelling can be a good way to motivate students to use the language both inside and outside the classroom. Many teachers report high motivation levels, and not only for their students”
This article does a good job of explaining the What and Why of Digital Storytelling in Language classrooms. The How to Start and Limitations portions are less relevant as we have several levels of support here @ Colgate. Please contact CEL (itss-cel@colgate.edu) or Sarah Kunze (skunze@colgate.edu) if you are interested in using this technology in your courses.
http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/CELT/article/view/3360/2810
“From a teaching and learning perspective, the practice of digital storytelling privileges intuitive and local knowledge drawn from non-academic sources, most often lived experience and memory. This openness to different forms of knowledge building and the recognition of a multiplicity of voices in the classroom may well be digital storytelling’s most enduring legacy to post-secondary education.”
Digital Storytelling and Diasporic Identities in Higher Education
Gail Benick
Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
