Digital Storytelling in Academia

Digital storytelling has been adopted in higher education, particularly more so in the United States, where some educators use it as a method of building engagement and multimedia literacy. While the Bay Area Video Coalition employs digital storytelling as a means of engaging and empowering at-risk youth, faculty and graduate students at the University of Houston have created a website called the Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling which focuses on the use of Digital Storytelling by teachers and their students across multiple content areas and grade levels. Ball State University has even developed a masters program in Digital Storytelling, as does the University of Oslo.

Digital story and storytelling is more than just a technology or an art form, it is about engaging community, promoting intergenerational communication, as well as providing an innovative method of historical research.

 

Teaching and Learning Digital Storytelling : MITMuseum and Veria Central Public Library

MITMuseum without Walls

Based on location-based storytelling, MIT Museum is leading an innovative location-based storytelling research project, Museum Without Walls (MWOW), to put history and science in your hand and turn the world into a museum. The goal is to help reveal the hidden and the extraordinary in the MIT landscape by encouraging people to learn about their surroundings. It begins with an Institute-based effort but the project is pioneering the development of technologies as a model usable by any institution or community.

Veria Central Public Library

A collaborative effort between public libraries and museums to provide new, informal and accessible learning opportunities. Library and museum staff in the four regions of the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany and Greece have been trained to train and support groups of individuals from migrant communities in the art, skills and technologies involved in the creation of digital stories.

Digital Storytelling in Academ

Teaching and Learning Digital Storytelling : California

This digital storytelling program is a collaboration of a number of California public libraries : Benicia, Covina, Hayward, Orange County, Sacramento, and San Francisco. In capturing the stories of its people, the program endorses the inclusion of underrepresented communities in the media arts field and the portrayal of accurate images of these communities by mainstream media and promotes community access to and use of media technology.

The recorded memories of California and local communities enable people to hear others personal experiences and find out what did the community look like, stories that address the recent past or distant past. Not only does digital storytelling promote intergenerational sharing, it engages aging baby boomers, encourages immigrants to California to share their memories, while encourageing library/community partnerships