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Faculty Digital Story Workshop, 2006
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 Joe Lambert, co-founder and Executive Director of the Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkeley and a leading figure in the digital storytelling movement. He was joined by Daniel Weinshenker of CDS's Denver office in guiding the participants in the creation of their own individual digital story.
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.
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.
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."
Joe Lambert's full presentation can be viewed in New Media's TLT brownbag archive.
The Stories
| East Marries West | Edward Larkey |
| Our Trip to Peru | Anna Rubin |
| My Mother's 90th Year | Judith Schneider |
| ID and Me | Greg Williams |
| Through My Grandfather's Eyes | Bill Shewbridge |
| untitled | Amy Peterson |
| Inconsequential Monuments | Laura Burns |
| A Mother's Love | Carol O'Neil |
UMBC Magazine: International Edition
The latest episodes of UMBC TV Magazine are now available for viewing online. This spring students from MLL 495/695 Intercultural Video Production produced four programs focusing on the international student experience at UMBC. You'll find stories on special events, resources for getting involved and digital stories. You will also find links to past episodes of UMBC TV Magazine. Enjoy!
Digital Stories from Charlestown
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.
The project was organized by the New Media Studio with funding from Retirement Living TV. You may view the videos below (requires Quicktime 7).
| A Traveler at Heart | Barbara Walker and An Nguyen-Gia |
| Mary's Waltz | Jean Singleton and Jorge Rios |
| My Two Grandsons | Mary Hein and Paul Iwancio |
| Barn Story | Joan McMann and Cathryna Brown |
| The Music Box | Marie Brinsfield and Samantha Duvall |
| Call Me Patsy | Tommy Koch and Andrea Olivier |
More Digital Stories from Charlestown
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 last summer's project, Retirement Living TV agreed to extend the workshop which they hope will form the basis of an ongoing program of viewer-submitted content for the network. This time cameras from RL-TV and the New Media Studio followed the students and residents as they collaborated in the creation of eleven new stories. The documentary footage and stories will be a part of an upcoming series on the project to be aired on RL-TV. You can view a short feature about the project here.
| Candles for the Wake | Jesse Poole and Joanna Lit |
| Christmas in England | Mary Hein and Andrew Chang |
| Crystal 3 | Jim Poole and Bill Shewbridge |
| Families are Forever | Barbara Walker and Jorge Rios |
| Ivan and Goo Goo | Barbara Kurz, Andrea Olivier and Cathryna Brown |
| Little Dog Miles | Jerri Mullinex, Andrea Olivier and Cathryna Brown |
| Magic Dust | Charlotte Valentine and Andrew Chang |
| My Father's Letter | Barbara Walker and Samantha Duvall |
| Nun for a Day | Marie Brinsfield and An Nguyen-Gia |
| Rude Polite | Barbara Kurz and Cathryna Brown |
| You're Never Too Old | Mary Zotain and Paul Iwancio |
Charlestown Digital Stories at the Maryland Film Festival
Participants 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."
Summer Seminar in New Media and Culture 2007
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.
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.
| My Family | SUN HEE (SUNNY) CHOI |
| My Friends | JONG YOON (KEVIN) HAN |
| Travel is my Breath | BO HYUNG KOH |
| Vietnam: My Country, My Family | THAO NGUYEN PHAM |
| Sweet Homesick | OUMOU HELENE SAADE |
| JISUG (MELISA) SHIN | |
| The Market in Vietnam | LUAN MINH TRUONG |
| Changing Me: My Life in the US | HYUN JU (JAMIE) KANG |
UMBC Faculty Explore Digital Storytelling in Summer Workshop 2007
This summer, nine UMBC faculty members participated in a three-day digital storytelling workshop at UMBC. For the second time in two years, OIT and the New Media Studio brought experts from the Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkely to campus, giving faculty members an opportunity to learn the basics of creating digital stories while exploring possibilities for integrating new media into their teaching.
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 International Media Center with assistance from New Media's Bill Shewbridge. Several of the stories produced in the workshop can be viewed here:
| Steve Bradley | Rubbernecking |
| Jason Loviglio | The Fire |
| Joby Taylor | This I Believe: Mystery with a Capital "M" |
| Jody Shipka | Gonna Make You Sweat: Composing a History of 'this' Space (Windows Media) |
| Nicole King | Going Down South |
| Pat Scully | Our Family is Born! |
| Doug Hamby | My Big Sister Dianne |
For more information visit Digital Storytelling @ UMBC.
Charlestown Digital Stories Wins Telly Award
A pioneering and unique Digital Storytelling Project organized by UMBC's New Media Studio and funded by Retirement Living TV (RLTV) has won a Bronze Telly Award. The prestigious Telly Award cites the Digital Storytelling Project as being among the world's best in local, regional, and cable television commercials and programs, as well as among the finest in video and film production. This year's Telly Awards received over 13,000 entries from all 50 states and 5 continents.
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:
www.umbc.edu/oit/newmedia/studio/digitalstories/ctds.php
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 received their statues at a ceremony held on September 12 at Charlestown. Andrea Olivier, 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."
Andrea Olivier with RL-TV president Brad Knight
Somali Bantu Refugees Speak Through Digital Stories
In October 2008, the New Media Studio worked with members of the Somali Bantu community to create digital stories as part of the American Friends Service Commitee's Project Voice. The production workshop was facilitated by the Center for Digital Storytelling with a final production session at UMBC's International Media Center.
Baltimore's Somali Bantu's tell their stories of war, forced migration and resettlement to our city. In short digital videos, using original art, narration, and music, five young Somalis share powerful testimonies in English and their native Maay Maay, which they wrote and produced with the AFSC. Hand-drawn pictures of soldiers wielding automatic weapons and bulldozers decimating the countryside combine with moving narration, such as Mohamed Iftin whose farm was confiscated by the Somali Government.
The stories were released online on Dec. 10 to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
You can view the stories and learn more about Project Voice here.
Summer Digital Story Workshop for Faculty 2009
On May 25, 26 and 27, UMBC's New Media Studio conducted a three-day introductory level digital story workshop for faculty. In addition to producing a digital story of their own, those attending the workshop gained insight into digital storytelling as a pedagogical and research tool.
The workshop was facilitated by a team of faculty, staff and graduate assistants who have over the last few years have worked extensively with digital stories in a number of ways. These included Bev Bickel, Jason Loviglio, Steve Bradley, Paul Iwancio, Bill Shewbridge, Polina Vinogradova and Satarupa Joardar.
One of the highlights of the workshop was a session on audio conducted by Steve Bradley of Visual Arts. Steve covered recording techniques and sound effects with a hands-on demonstration of creative techniques for building soundtracks.
The Stories |
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| The Last Dog | Bob Sloane |
| My Dearest Alexandra | Taryn Bayles |
| The Best Laid Plans | Susan Mundy |
| Lost and Found | Shuhua Bloom |
| See-It-There | Olga Kritskaya |
| Trashy Art | Sandra Abbott |
| My Movie Theater | Nicoleta Bazgan |
| 13,500 Feet | Bob Reeves |
| Hair Matters | Kimberly Moffitt |
| Everyone Should Be So Lucky | Jim Milani |
| Everything I Need to Know in Life I Learned from the Obama Inauguration | Christine Mallinson |
| Those Shoes | Constantine Vaporis |
| Diss-Eeese | Barry Casey |
BCPS Summer 2009 Workshop in Digital Storytelling and Oral History
During the summer of 2009, UMBC’s New Media Studio teamed with the Center for History Education to offer a two-week workshop for Baltimore County K-12 teachers exploring the intersections of oral history and digital storytelling. The workshop was the culminating activity in CHE’s two-year “Making Master Teachers” program. Year One of the program focused on reading and research, while Year Two focused on incorporating primary sources in the classroom. The program was funded through the U.S. Department of Education's Teaching American History Grant Program.
Teachers had an opportunity to learn classroom skills for creating their own work and developing student projects.
Information for attendees :
This summer workshop provides you with the opportunity to learn skills of digital storytelling that you will be able to use in your classrooms, both in delivering your own content and as a project option for your students' original work. In addition it will allow you to disseminate the work you did on Baltimore '68 and will provide UB with an innovative addition to its Baltimore '68 website.
Since we are working under time constraints, we hope to come to the June sessions with a good idea of the form of the project, although the content can evolve over the course of the workshop. I propose that the Baltimore County high school group break into two teams and produce two digital stories about the uprising of April 1968 in Baltimore. I would suggest that each team takes a section of the UB Baltimore '68 driving tour (voted "Best Driving Tour for Visiting In-Laws" by City Paper and available at http://archives.ubalt.edu/bsr/timeline/index.html) and flesh it out with primary documents, excerpts from oral histories, music, images and anything else that would be illuminating. Before and after shots would be particularly effective in telling the story of the events. The finished products could find a home on the UB and CHE websites.
This project would build on research you have already begun, could draw on the resources we have collected on the website, and would contribute greatly to UB's effort to make this time period understandable to the public. I hope you will consider it
Recommended readings
We recommend reviewing these first articles during the initial week and
guide the discussion around the question: What makes an effective digital
story? Other questions could be: What is a digital story? and How might
I use digital storytelling in the classroom?
The Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling
The Art of Digital Storytelling
These next two articles will be discussed in the second week. The discussion
could may on: What are the barriers to implementing digital storytelling
in the classroom? As an advocate, how could I overcome these hurdles?
Implementation of Digital Storytelling in the Classroom
Digital Storytelling: Moving from Promise to Practice
ALSO, here is a link to the introductory chapters of the Digital
Storytelling Cookbook:
http://www.storycenter.org/cookbook.pdf
Digital Stories from SPAN 305 Fall 08: Spanish for Heritage Spanish Speakers II
The MLL Department worked for the first time using Digital Stories with Spanish 305 for Heritage Spanish Speakers during fall 2008. This course is an advanced Spanish course for Latino students at UMBC (3-credit course) taught by Dr. Ana María Schwartz and Adriana Val as Tech Assistant.
The goal of this class is to connect the students with their Spanish heritage language and culture, as well as to prepare them to be competent bilinguals who can use Spanish for academic and professional purposes. Students participated in face-to-face as well as online projects to improve their oral, writing as well as technical uses of the Spanish language.
One of the projects designed by Dr. Schwartz was the use of Digital Stories. Students worked during the semester choosing their own topics, writing narratives, collecting photographs, and finding appropriate music to accompany their verbal narration. All students participated in peer-review in class, reflected with instructors and classmates about their narratives, and worked in the computer lab under the assistance of Ms. Val, personnel from the IMC such as Ms. Joan Costello, and video experts from the New Media Studio at UMBC. The product of this powerful work is the collection of the first digital stories from the first Heritage Spanish speakers who work intensively to share their personal stories.
Elver Alarcón: Todo sobre mi familia
Cristina Dalton: ¿Qué soy yo?
Ana Torres: Hacia los Estados Unidos
Claudia Zuniga: Mi mamá, mi héroe
Digital Stories from the Shriver Center's Peaceworker Program
Students in the Shriver Center's Peaceworker Program have created these stories reflecting on their service and experiences abroad.
Finda Hawa |
Let Me Tell You About You |
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 |
Honduras |
Sarah Hill |
Second Chance |
Joby Taylor |
Mystery With a Capital "M" |
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