GENDER, WOMEN, & SEXUALITY STUDIES' Digital Humanities Fellow, Lars Mackenzie, is offering a workshop to train instructors on how to create digital stories and incorporate digital storytelling into their graduate and undergraduate courses. Click on the form below to sign up.
I want to let you know about an opportunity for core faculty and graduate students in American Studies. I have been appointed the Digital Humanities Fellow in GWSS, and as part of my role as the Digital Humanities Fellow, I am offering a workshop to train instructors on how to create digital stories and incorporate digital storytelling into their graduate and undergraduate courses. During the 2014-2015 academic year, I will be inviting interested instructors in your department to bring their students to the Rachel Raimist Feminist Media Center to produce digital stories. I will provide support and guidance to students producing and sharing digital stories, and tech support to instructors and students alike.
Digital Storytelling is the practice of crafting short narratives out of digital tools: photographs, videos, animations, music, and voiceovers. Digital stories are multimedia projects produced to share a story, an analysis, a history, a debate, or an archive through digital audio and visual elements. Digital stories are short, anywhere from 2-10 minutes, and they can be integrated into undergraduate or graduate courses to bring new form to the analyses and narratives that students are already engaging with during the semester. Digital storytelling offers a new platform to build, create, and share work done in the classroom. This tool is particularly well-suited to produce and share subjugated knowledges, create media and knowledge towards social justice ends, and to practice applying critical analyses of power, privilege, and the dominant narratives which construct and delimit lives.
Digital storytelling is a compelling and engaging pedagogical tool for students. As an instructor, you don't need to be tech-savvy to utilize this tool in your classroom. The programs (iMovie & Audible) we use to create digital stories are user-friendly, and I will be available both to train instructors on how to use these programs, and to provide tech support and guidance if you choose to bring your class to the Rachel Raimist Feminist Media Center to create digital stories.
If you'd like to look at a few examples of digital storytelling, check out this link.
I will be offering a workshop for faculty and graduate students on August 27-28, from 9am-12:30pm (both days). In this workshop, participants will learn the basics on how to put together digital stories, practice using the programs, and have some engaged discussion on the politics of producing digital narratives. We will limit the workshop to 10 participants.
Please fill out this Google Form if you are interested in attending the workshop or in integrating digital storytelling into your course during this academic year. (Use information for the course you are interested in bringing to the Rachel Raimist Feminist Media Center when filling out the form.)
Please forward this to core faculty and graduate students in your department!
Best,
Lars Z. Mackenzie
