digital storytelling at cput - presentation at uwc on the 7th of august 2013
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Digital storytelling at CPUT
Daniela Gachago & Veronica Barnes
What Happens When You Turn Your Back In A 21st Century Classroom…
http://www.teachthought.com/technology/what-happens-when-you-turn-your-back-in-a-21st-century-classroom/
• My computer is the nucleus of my workspace • When I need information I go online • Besides IM or email my cell phone is my primary method of
communication • I’m usually juggling five things at once• My attention span is very small• I want instant gratification• I get bored very easily
Oblinger 2008
New generation of students
Oblinger
Axel Bruns
Challenges
We want stories. We love stories. Stories keep us alive. Stories that come from a place of deep
insight and with a knowing wink to their audience, and stories that tease us into examining our own feelings and beliefs, and stories that guide us on
our own path. But most importantly, stories told as stories, that honor the simple idea that we want to
relive what the author experienced in time and place.
Joe Lambert, 2013
Digital storytelling at CPUT
Course models of DST projects
Education
Definition – digital stories / narratives
• Digital literacies• Alternative to research essay• Authentic acquisition of content• Flexibility• Link to communities – transfer of academic
content to personal lives• Student engagement• Alternative assessment tool
Why digital narratives?
Student feedback
If you’re reading something and you get to watch it , so you’re absorbing it, hearing it and you’re doing it especially because part of you were doing the whole thingy. So as you’re doing it, you’re learning from it and it was fun like most videos it was fun. So you kind of want to play the video over and over and you know… it was the fun part like apply what you learnt into the movie …
Thembani: I feel like the video it’s kind of good way of learning like I will prefer the video like in anything.
Interviewer: Why?
Planning of DST projects
Intro
Research / brainstorming
Scripting Storyboarding
Images
Photostory/ iMovie/
MoviemakerNarration
Background sounds & Music
Screening
Visual literacy
Academic literacy, Planning &sequencing
Performance
Multimedia skills
Information literacy
Work in progress
• Focus on open source / freely available software on the web
• Audacity & MovieMaker• Photostory
Software & media used
Creative commons
Digital Storytelling
Digital storytelling
Storytelling
Storytelling
Planning of DST projects (7 steps of DST)
Intro
PLA / Storycircle
Scripting Storyboarding
Images
Photostory Narration
Background sounds
Screening
Owning your insights
Owning your emotions
Finding the moment
Seeing your story
Hearing your story
Assembling your story
Sharing your story
Visit to Kirstenbosch, reflect on the experience
DST Workshop 1DST introduction, community map, title and statement of intent
Mobile learning and digital storiesParticipatory Learning and Action Techniques
• Aim: establishing needs of various groups in communities in order to develop some form of action on this need
• Important: critical self-consciousness on the part of the researchers as well as a concern with social justice
• Characterized as process, not a one-off event which is interactive, uses visual methods, is aimed at action and reflection and is usually practiced in a group setting.
• Good for students with diverse academic literacy skills
• Examples: Community Mapping or River of Life
Participatory Learning & Action Techniques
Community mapping - urban
Community map - rural
River of Life
River of Life
• Social cohesion / social pedagogy• From vulnerability to pride, pedagogy of
discomfort• Social justice education• Engagement with issues around diversity• Critical reflection• Student identity
Benefits of digital storytelling
So yes, if you get exposed to another person’s culture,
surely you will respect that culture eventually and you
will learn about that person and you see that person
with more respect and in a better light.
Real stories
Everybody has their own story to tell. So digital story allows you to tell your specific story and share it amongst everybody in your classroom.
• Technology• Assessment• Time• Access• Diverse literacy skills• Adapting model to specific discipline• Process vs product• Dissemination of stories (access, copyright)
Challenges of DST projects
Examples of student stories• Ferrania – Mild steel man (Industrial Design first years): http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFcrN_GeRzc&feature=c4-overview&list=UUm3GeRbRnpn-pkOTtaHSyOg
• Sun by Angela Biko: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6LoHFcOnPg&list=PLe5oHsfRWAnTgiHhMeK35B9-Az-pYMMCu
• Education stories: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLe5oHsfRWAnRFpFOgFccYrdiNb4V1KAB3
Any questions?
• www.cput.ac.za/blogs/edutech• http://www.cput.ac.za/blogs/edutech/digital-s
torytelling-resources/
• YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/CPUTstories
• [email protected] or [email protected]
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