Digital Stories @ UMBC

Digital Storytelling Winter Workshop 2012

2012-02-09T21:10:05Z

In January, 2012, the New Media Studio offered its sixth annual digital storytelling workshop. As in past years, the workshop gave faculty members an opportunity to explore digital media production while creating a personal narrative, integrating voice-over with images and sound. This year for the first time the workshop was offered as a one-credit course as part of UMBC's winter session. As a result graduate and undergraduate students joined the group, giving the workshop a new dimension.

Here are some examples of the stories produced.

UMBC	Patsy Kerstetter
Hidden Treasures	Gergana Kostova
Mexico	Meghan Park
Emma	Denise Perdue
The Unforgettable Year	Keegan Skipper
Through Natalie's Eyes	Joyce Bedi
Knowing Shakespeare	Robin Farabaugh

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Charlestown Stories Project in the Erickson Tribune

2011-12-14T22:42:20Z

View the article here

Digital Stories from the Shriver Center's Peaceworker Program

2011-10-08T21:07:42Z

Students in the Shriver Center's Peaceworker Program's Summer Pro Seminar created these stories reflecting on their service and experiences abroad.

	2011
Whitney Swander	The Turning of the BONES
Tara Gill	TEFL
Michael Wissner	I Knew I was in Peace Corp When...
Margaret Howell	IHTEP
Kayla Keelan	Tico Directions
Joey Brown	Tsunami
Charlotte Keniston	Spit on a Stranger

	2010
Joby Taylor	Journey to the Shriver Peaceworker Program
Emily Nelson	Mbabba
Oscar Sinclair	Snowdoctor
Tim Hartman	The Arrival
Kristyn Oldendorf	A Family Fiesta in Honduras
Renee Johnson	Integration Check Point
Michael Auerbach	Peace Corps in Mauritania

	2009
Joby Taylor	Digging for Peace
Lindsay Walberg	What's in a Name?
Dustin Hogenson	Dusty's Digital Storyline
Meghann Shutt	Catching a Cow
Jennifer Robinson	Black Water
Robert Dietzen	Moving Day
Katie Long	Honduras
Sarah Hill	Second Chance
Joby Taylor	Mystery With a Capital "M"

Stories from French 440 - French Cinema

2011-09-16T16:18:49Z

Prof. Nicoleta Bazagan has posted stories from her Spring 2011 French Cinema class here: http://www.youtube.com/user/nbazg . The stories are primarily in French however some students also produced english versions for extra-credit.

Culture Shock Story

2011-06-12T22:00:11Z

As part of her Independent Studies in the New Media Studio, Fulbright Scholar Meri Collazos Sola developed a multimedia project using digital digital storytelling to explore identity and culture shock. The project website, www.cultureshockstory.com is based on Meri's research in the Intercultural Communications program.

"This project contains the materials I will focus on for my scholarly paper. The scholarly paper should be related to some of the topics that we've done for the core courses. The main topics of the research will be intercultural competency, creativity and two up and coming new media formats: digital storytelling and personal documentary film."

Stories from MCS 101L Multimedia Lab, Spring 2011

2011-06-11T20:41:06Z

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UMBC New Media Studio's Multimedia Literacy Lab Spring, 2011 photoset

MCS101L, Multimedia Literacy Lab, is a one-credit course offered in two sections. The class is taken in conjunction with MCS333. Students were given 6 story prompts to choose from for their final digital story projects.

Final Projects

Wednesday Group	Thursday Group
Drew Barretto Monica Berron Christina Borteye Bingbing Cao Andrew Colon Miguel Ferreira Alexandra Grieves Amara Hall Nia Hampton Sabrina Hoeks Courtney Howard Tim Kelly Samantha Larsen Alana Matthews Joseph McElroy Arabia Morgan Sara Parkinson Varsha Prabhu Steven Recalde Arya Tayebi Ruth Umoh	Syed Ahmed Justin Ambrose Eleanor Brower Shanae Cole Edward Courtney Kregg Deery Christy Fury Shahmir Ghani Chad Grant Zoe Kilbourne Bryan Le Travis Morse Neto Opara Lajuan Pulliam Martha Rusk Stephanie Sell Christine So Koryn Warthen Husnain Zia

First Project

Wednesday Group	Thursday Group
Drew Barretto Christina Borteye Bingbing Cao Andrew Colon Miguel Ferreira Amara Hall Nia Hampton Sabrina Hoeks Courtney Howard Tim Kelly Samantha Larsen Alana Matthews	Syed Ahmed Justin Ambrose Eleanor Brower Shanae Cole Edward Courtney Kregg Deery Christy Fury Shahmir Ghani Chad Grant Zoe Kilbourne Bryan Le Travis Morse Neto Opara Lajuan Pulliam

Exploring Youth Activism through Digital Storytelling: Seminar in American Political History

2011-06-10T18:39:28Z

This spring students examined the history of American Youth Activism from 1945-1975 while producing digital stories and documentaries. Young Americans were important participants in the social, economic, and political changes that took place across society during the most intense years of the Cold War. The class emphasized skills in writing, oral history, and traditional research as well as digital storytelling computer technologies. Student first produced digital stories exploring the roots of their own political awareness. HIST 495 - 710 was held in the spring of 2011. The course was taught by Dr. Kriste Lindenmeyer, Chair of the UMBC History Department and Dr. Bill Shewbridge, Director of the New Media Studio. You can view the projects here.

MLL 495/695 create Charlestown and Arbutus Stories

2011-05-26T19:25:46Z

Charlestown Stories 2011 photoset

During the spring 2011 semester, students in MLL 495/695 Intercultural Video productions completed two community-base digital story projects. The first brought the class to the Arbutus branch of the Baltimore County Public Library to help tell the stories of the librarians and others in the community. This was the second year for the project.

Next the class went to the Charlestown retirement community for aa new round of Charlestown stories. This was a continuation of an award-winning project that began in 2006.

The semester culminated in a showing of all stories hosted by the Arbutus Library.

Charlestown Stories
My Life as a Boy Scout	Barbara Walker and Thomas Conner
Caterpillar Corral	Marie Brinsfield and Abigail Farrara
The Old Farm House	Jeri Mullinix and Josh Cochran
In My Heart I Will Always be a Dancer	Ebbe Saleski and Madeline Smith
An Unexpected Slap	Lloyd Stewart and Keith Blomberg
Girls of the Limberlost	Miriam Tongier and Brandon Callahan
The Little Girl Who Grew Up at Charlestown	Charlotte Valentine and Amanda Winters
Arbutus Library Stories
Getting from Here to There	Gloria Ries, Tom Conner & James Peak
Arbutus Library	Gail Ross, Abby Fanara and Lei Lou
The Fair of the Iron Horse	John Roth, Josh Cochran & Keith Blomberg
Library Rat	Aldemore Turgeon,Cara Marie & Muhammed Ashraf
Arbutus Library	James Klein, Brandon Callahan & Christine Sadowski
Arbutus Branch Library: Then and Now	Jennie Gill, Madeline Smith & Amanda Winters

Arbutus Library Project photoset

Round Two of the Arbutus Library Project

2011-04-18T16:22:43Z

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UMBC New Media Studio's Arbutus Library Project photoset

This spring students from MLL 495/695 Intercultural Video Production returned to the Arbutus Library to create another collection of digital stories from the community. This year's project focused largely on the librarians themselves. You can read about the project in the Arbutus Patch. You may also view the stories from this and last year's workshop here.

Stories from Linehan Art Scholars

2011-03-29T14:27:52Z

With the goal of building a greater sense of community in the Linehan Artist Scholars Program, students in the Linehan Freshman Seminar class participated in a Digital Story Workshop over a four week period. Their stories reflect the broad concerns of young talented artists as they begin their university careers in the arts. The stories speak of family, creative passions, and the search for identity in a complicated and fractured world.

Spring, 2011
Mary Hester	Hilary de Vas
Eric Kuhn	Marissa Regelin
Zoe Gensheimer	Francesca Cerquetti
Katherine Morris	Leon June
Jordan Forbes	Kathryn Bishop
	Diane Schramke
Spring, 2010
Hua Shu	Eva Marie Thorp
Sarah Nicely	Kimberly Haines
Connie Chang	James Horner
Lorenzo Lalimarmo	Stephen O'Connor
Samantha Warren	Christopher Dews
Sarah Yendrey	Kate Broadhurst
Wyatt Juster	Josh Holober-Ward
Danielle Baer	Elizabeth Milligan
Amanda Brandenburg

Stories from 2011 Faculty Workshop

2011-01-28T17:56:16Z

On January 19,20 and 21, the New Media Studio held their sixth annual digital storytelling worshop for faculty.

Here are the stories produced over the three days:

Barbara Bourne	The Gift
Sue Small	In Honor of the Geranium
Sine Hwang Jensen	Curio of Treasures
Jill Randles	The Secret

Projects from MCS101L Multimedia Literacy Lab - Fall, 2010

2011-01-18T21:57:18Z

MCS101L, Multimedia Literacy Lab, is a one-credit course offered in two sections. The class is taken in conjunction with MCS333 . Students were given 6 story prompts to choose from for their final digital story projects.

Sade Brown: Photography

Alexander Smith: The Ravens / Steelers rivalry

Allan Carey: Night Photography

Max Tucker: Trip to Utah

Victoria Milewski: Race

Donald Hankerson: UMBC Cribs Mockumentary

Brendan Lipton: Bee Keeping

Julianne Baskerville: Her family from the point of view of their couch

Justin Eisenstadt: His love for vintage vinyl records

Alyson Becker: Serendipity

Nakita Smith: Orchids

Marlie Somers: Her ultimate frisbee team

Abel Mengistu: Ethiopian New Year

ELC 054 Cross-Cultural Communication 2009

2010-12-16T20:40:51Z

The Project

The English Language Center works with digital stories within the course “Cross-Cultural Communication and University Life” (ELC 054), an advanced English as a Second Language course. The 3-credit course is taught by Heather Linville and Tsisana Maysuradze in the spring and by Polina Vinogradova in the summer and fall.

The goal of this class is to help students recognize and analyze a number of cultural concepts as they are seen in a variety of new media genres. For example, in class, the students talk and read about the Iceberg Theory, individualistic and collectivistic cultures, cultures that use high and low context communication styles, identity, culture shock, and aspects of verbal and non-verbal communication. At the same time, the students watch motion pictures, documentary films, online advertisements, and digital stories applying the cultural concepts they had learned about. The students also participate in discussions, both face-to-face and on-line, in which they apply what they have learned to an analysis of their own culture and the culture they have experienced in U.S. campus life.

The final project of the class is a production of individual digital stories. The process of working on the stories throughout the semester includes choosing the topics, writing the narratives, collecting photographic images, and choosing the music to accompany their verbal narration. The students also discuss their stories in class, peer-review their narratives, and complete online journal entries which allow them to reflect on their progress and express their doubts and concerns to their instructor. The students also intensively work in the computer lab putting their stories together under their instructors’ guidance. Several digital stories that were produced in these classes can be viewed here.

The Stories

Summer 2008

My Family
Cheikhna Ouattara
Mes Parents
Hermann Kontcho
My Father
Ho Young Kim
Me & Military
Young-gull (Kane) Oh
My First Trip Away
Muath Alolayan
Changing Me
Sichao Cheng

Spring 2008

Story
Eun Lee Jung
New Clothes
Hattan Aldousary
Story
Jong Yoon Han
Life in the US Dormitary
Seunghun Kim
Culture Shock!
Jiro Kim
Differences in Eating and Behaviors between Thailand and the US
Thanabodin Lawpoolsri
Story
Yongkou Kim
Welcome to the Commons
Young Hee Kim

Digital Stories from HONORS 300-4/HIST355-2 "Constructing the Samurai"

2010-12-14T16:26:49Z

In "Constructing the Samurai" students used digital story techniques to explore aspects of samurai culture through visual assignments. The honors class was taught by Professor Constantine Vaporis during the Fall 2009 and 2010 semesters. Here are the results:

Fall, 2010
Oishi and the Loyal Retainers (Tina Zou)
The Adventures of Samurai Asakura Yoshimoto (Sara Ross, Cynthia Dang)
Samurai Final Open Shot (Sean Palmateer, Julian Brezon)
"Armor of the Samurai" (Brandon Callahan and Adam Robinson)
Martial Arts During the Tokugawa Era (David Eastman, Glen Langan)
"Forging the Samurai" (Steven Cornthwaite, Max Petulante)
"Zen Buddhism and the Samurai" (Caitlin Smith)
"Seppuku: Death Before Dishonor" (Nathaniel Castill Jr.)
"Seppuku in 20th Century Japan" (Sarah Stark)
"Tokugawa's Melting Pot" (Dwumah Frimpong)

Fall 2009
Women's Role in Samurai Films - Samantha Larsen
Samurai Honor - Rebecca Walter
Recipe for a Samurai - Becca Reeves
Seppuku
Marriage and Gender Among Samurai in Tokugawa Japan - James Chrismer, Momoka Watanabe, Kazutomo Terada
Chushingura in Transition - Matthew Murphy
The Social Relationships of the Samurai - Sammantha Chin and Lara English
HIST 355 Final Project - Daniel Graham
Armor of the Samurai - Rachel and Angela
Bushido: The Way of the Warrior - David Baldwin
Progression of the Samurai
Fallen Cherry Blossoms- Kamikaze Pilots - Harsh Bambawale
Samurai in Games

Digital Storytelling in Bogotá, Colombia

2010-09-22T18:43:51Z

Many of us remember Kyle Halle-Erby who joined us for our 2008 faculty workshop at UMBC. Kyle is now active in story work with youths in Colombia. His collaborator Tatiana Rais has shared with us two blogs created during a recent workshop. The first is an explanation (in english) of their daily schedule and the workshop process. They also created the second blog for the students. Part of the workshop was to give the students access to the internet and to self-publication. Here, the kids introduced themselves and wrote about their experience. The site includes all of their written stories with some pictures and a few of the final videos. While this website is entirely in spanish, all of the videos themselves have been subtitled.