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UMBC Celebrates "International Day for Sharing Life Stories"
Stories from MLL, ELC and MCS students as well as stories from CCBC's Katrina writing project were shown. RL-TV and the New Media Studio's "Charlestown Digital Stories" project were also highlighted.
Some of the stories presented are available for viewing at http://youtube.com/umbcmcs . Posted by shewbrid on April 29, 2008 3:49 PM | 0 Comments Charlestown Digital Stories Wins Telly Award The Digital Storytelling Project combines the efforts of RLTV, UMBC and Charlestown Retirement Community. It partners a UMBC undergraduate student (hands-on with the media technology) with a Charlestown resident (autobiographical story and narrative) to produce 2-3 minute video stories. Drawn from the life experiences of the residents, the stories combine narration, animation and photography. The award-winning digital stories can be viewed at: The Digital Storytelling Project is the nation's first three-way partnership between a media company, a university and a retirement community. UMBC students team with Charlestown residents to create a series of 17 digital stories and music in short movies to be shared with others. Charlestown residents work closely with student partners, acting as author and creative director of their individual story. Each student brings their own style and talents to the project, helping to create some unique examples of intergenerational storytelling. The project is organized and supervised by UMBC's New Media Studio.
Student award winners Jorge Rios, An Nguyen-Gia, Samantha Duvall, Andrew Chang, Joanna Lit, and Cathryna Brown recieved their statues at a ceremony held on September 12 at Charlestown. Andrea Olivia, not pictured. also received a statue. "We are honored that the television industry has recognized the hard work that went into producing these fascinating digital stories," said Brad Knight, president of RLTV. "The digital stories are reality TV at its finest. They provide a rich, intergenerational experience for Charlestown residents and UMBC students."Winning an award like the Telly is significant in that it acknowledges that stories drawn from the life experiences of retirees with a wider audience," said Knight. "It is also gratifying that the award recognizes the entire collection of work from the Charlestown project. It is very much a group process and every story enriched the experience." Posted by shewbrid on September 14, 2007 12:31 PM | 0 Comments UMBC Faculty Explore Digital Storytelling in Summer Workshop
For more information visit Digital Storytelling @ UMBC. Posted by shewbrid on August 11, 2007 2:46 PM | 0 Comments Summer Seminar in New Media and Culture
The goal of this class was to introduce the students to a number of cultural concepts and illustrate how these concepts can be recognized and analyzed using a variety of new media genres. For example, in class, the students talked and read about the Iceberg Theory, individualistic and collectivistic cultures, cultures that use high and low context communication styles, identity, culture sock, and aspects of verbal and non-verbal communication. At the same time, the students watched a number of motion pictures, documentary films, online advertisements, and digital stories applying the cultural concepts they have learned about in the analysis of the latter. The students also worked on a number of weekly group projects one of which was a production of photographic maps in which they illustrated how the aspects of culture can be visually present and interpreted. The final project of the class was a production of individual digital stories on which the students worked during the eight weeks of class. In this process, the students chose the topics of their stories, wrote their narratives, collected photographic images, and chose the music to accompany their verbal narration. The students also discussed their stories in class, peer-reviewed their narratives, and made online journal entries twice a week which allowed them to reflect on their progress and express their doubts and concerns to their instructor. The students also intensively worked in the computer lab putting their stories together under their instructor’s guidance. Several digital stories that were produced in this class can be viewed here.
Posted by shewbrid on July 31, 2007 12:02 PM | 1 Comments Charlestown Digital Stories at the Maryland Film FestivalParticipants in the UMBC Charlestown digital story project had an opportunity to screen their works at the 2007 Maryland Film Festival as part of a master class sponsored by the Creative Alliance. Documentary filmmaker Aaron Matthews was on hand to lead a critique of the stories produced in last year's summer and winter workshops. Matthews, whose new film The Paper was screened at the festival, was impressed by the stories and encouraged the group to continue making films. "There is something really refreshing about hearing your voices.There are not a lot of films by older women and it was really nice to hear that. I would definitely encourage you to think of yourself as filmmakers and keep doing it. I think there is a lot of interest in hearing more stories from people from your perspective."
Posted by shewbrid on May 8, 2007 10:16 AM | 0 Comments More Digital Stories from Charlestown
Posted by shewbrid on February 6, 2007 2:41 PM | 0 Comments Digital Stories from Charlestown
The project was organized by the New Media Studio with funding from Retirement Living TV. You may view the videos below (requires Quicktime 7).
Posted by shewbrid on September 18, 2006 2:45 PM | 0 Comments UMBC Magazine: International Edition
Posted by shewbrid on May 16, 2006 3:09 AM | 0 Comments OIT and New Media Host Digital Storytelling Workshop
Bringing together writing, photography and audio, the digital storytelling process facilitates the telling of personal and reflective stories in the form of digital movies. Through the process of producing their own digital stories over a three-day period, workshop participants gained insight into potential application of this approach in their own teaching.
Following the workshop, Lambert met with members of the campus community to discuss how digital storytelling relates to teaching in a variety of disciplines, and how new ideas of digital literacy are embodied in the technique. Lambert told the group "The mix of photography, our voice, a piece of writing, music is extraordinarily powerful. We all dream, and we dream in Technicolor, not in text. So the idea that this form allows us to get a little bit closer to writing in the form of our own dreams is why the work continues to grow."
More information on the workshop and digital storytelling is available from the Center for Digital Storytelling's site.
RSS feed for UMBC Digital Stories Posted by shewbrid on January 30, 2006 2:47 PM | 0 Comments |
On Friday, May 16 UMBC participated in the International Day for Sharing Life Stories, a day celebrated around the world through the sharing of stories in gatherings and virtual environments. UMBC students from classes in Media and Communications, the New Media Studio, Modern Languages & Linguistics and the English Language Center presented digital stories they produced this semester. This gathering is was held at Flat Tuesdays (Commons).
This event was sponsored by the Media and Communications Council of Majors, the English Language Center and the New Media Studio. For more information on the International Day for Sharing Life Stories visit: 
A pioneering and unique 
This summer, nine UMBC faculty members participated in a three-day digital storytelling workshop at UMBC. For the second time in two years, 
Joe Lambert and Stephany Sesse led the group through the writing and production process as each participant created a digital movie relating a short personal story. Faculty members included: Beverly Bickel, ELC; Steve Bradley, Visual Arts; Jason Loviglio, Media & Communication Studies; Nicole King, American Studies; Doug Hamby, Dance; Pat Scully, Education; Jody Shipka, English; Joan Shin, LLC; and Joby Taylor, Shriver Center. The workshop was conducted in the 
During summer session of 2007 for the first time English Language Center offered the Seminar in New Media and Culture to level 3 (intermediate) students. The class met five days a week for 3.5 hours during the eight weeks of the summer session and was taught by Polina Vinogradova. 
During the fall semester and winter break, students from the New Media Studio returned to the Charlestown Retirement Community for another round digital storytelling. Following the success of 
This summer UMBC students teamed with residents of Charlestown Retirement Community to create a series of digital stories. Drawn from the life experiences of the residents, the stories combined narration, animation, photos and music in short movies to be shared with others. Residents worked closely with student partners, acting as author and creative director of their individual story. Each student brought their own style and talents to the project, helping to create some unique examples of intergenerational storytelling. 
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During January, ten faculty members attended an intensive workshop in digital storytelling at UMBC, sponsored by OIT, New Media Teaching and Learning and the New Media Studio. The workshop brought to campus 
UMBC faculty attending included Jason Loviglio, Greg Williams, Judith Schneider, Edward Larkey and Anna Rubin. In addition, instructors from other area schools including Goucher, Bowie State and the University of Maryland School of Nursing attended the workshop.
