Discussion: --CANCELLED-- | Fusing Fieldwork and Digital Storytelling in a UW Summer Course

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2014-09-05T15:03:29-06:00

Abstract:
We teach a ten day field course on landscape in Wyoming, balancing the rigors of daily fieldwork with the production of a final product that challenges students to engage effectively with digital technologies. We had three 1/2 day digital story telling workshops (beginning, late middle, and conclusion), encouraging students to marry their personal experiences with the academic content of the course. We will show two examples of our final three-minute projects and discuss our design meant to promote critical thinking, creativity, and developing 21st century digital skills while keeping their feet on the ground.

Description:
This presentation will cover the overall course design (pre-assigned readings and online assessments prior to the fieldwork), and the ten day schedule of activities, including the three half-day digital story telling workshops. We will have examples of the handouts provided by our digital storytelling facilitator, Brian Liesinger, Director of the Heart Mountain Foundation. We developed a rubric for the digital project, and will provide two sample stories. Their concluding work was good, and we both see the potential of the digital story-telling project as an assessment. We are interested in the feedback of others in considering how to improve the design and what it means to fuse field work with digital technologies.

Presented by:

Mary Keller, University of Wyoming, mkeller@uwyo.edu

Mary Humstone, American Studies, University of Wyoming humstone@uwyo.edu