June 23-24, 2005

Opening Remarks

Lunch-DOWNS HALL

*Digital Stroytelling in e-Portfolios for Reflection and Deep Learning - CAS-ROOM 250
   Helen Barrett
The ancient art of storytelling can be a powerful tool for deep learning and reflection;
add today's multimedia technology and you have a highly motivating project-based
learning activity as well as a powerful artifact in an electronic portfolio. This presentation
will focus on the role of reflection in electronic portfolios and tools for scaffolding
reflection:blogging and digital storytelling. After a brief overview of the literature on
reflection and learning (Schon, Dewey, Moon), some new perspectives will be shared
on storytelling as reflection on experience to improve learning (McDrury & Alterio),
and on the role of reflection in brain-based learning (Zull). This presentation will
provide some of the pedagogical and theoretical justification for integrating digital
storytelling into the curriculum.

*Personal and Creative Digital Storytelling-CAS-ROOM 452
  Joe Lambert
Considered by many the true Center for Digital Storytelling, CDS has set the agenda
as a model for training and advocacy in the field of digital storytelling. The Center
professes that all people have stories about the events, individuals and places in their
lives. And CDS is renown for its “Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling,” which
serve as a template for many other digital storytelling models. This presentation will
offer an overview on the CDS perspective, including the central role of the script in
digital storytelling.

*Tell it Your Way- CAS-ROOM 251
  Peggy Benton
Digital storytellers bring rich sources of digital media together to tell a story in a way
that has much more impact and meaning than any one modality alone. The typical
method is to combine digital stills from scans or digital cameras with music and narrative
in a video editing program and the resulting “story” output is a short movie with a personal
focus. The digital story can told on virtually any topic and may be a personal story, a
documentary, a digital history, digital poetry a digital album or even digital plays. Still,
there are many other ways to tell a story that suit your skill level and story metaphor.
Participants in this workshop will learn:
1. Easy ways of planning and developing the story. This includes designing, assembling,
sequencing,and formatting their resulting project to suit their unique needs and abilities.
2. In addition to Movies, stories can be told as animations, books, graphical novels and
slideshows. These will be demonstrated along with several simple and effective graphic
special effects.

*Using Digital Story Techniques to Teach the Woburn Case Study- CAS-ROOM 453
  Rob Schadt
In this presentation we will demonstrate an instructional CD-ROM, Investigating Community
Environmental Health Problems, and describe how it is used to teach public health students in
a Masters level course in Environmental Health. The program is designed as a resource for
both students and members of community groups interested in the various lessons that were
learned in a well-known case. The CD-ROM was produced to help users determine the
environmental health of a community, particularly as it relates to the presence of hazardous
chemicals. The CD-ROM relies heavily on the experiences of citizens and public health
professionals working in the community of Woburn, Massachusetts around the contamination
episode publicized in the book and movie "A Civil Action." The session will also discuss the
use of the traditional case method and a classroom strategy called “structured controversy”
which is enhanced through the use of multimedia CD-ROM technology.Through the disc we
tell the Woburn story through audio and video segments taken from local cable documentaries
and expert panels, as well as documents, photographs and other media used in or produced
in connection with the trial. When combined with the structured controversy class activity,
students experience the Woburn story directly by "walking a mile in another person's
moccasins," understanding another point of view about the meaning of a toxic contamination
problem for a community.

*"Youth-full Stories": Representations in the New Digital Landscape- CAS-ROOM 455
  Lalitha Vasudevan
In our evolving digital culture we are experiencing a visual turn where the image is no longer
subordinate to the word; images are everywhere and speak volumes. What are the images, then,
that make claims about urban youth? Whose images, stories, and claims count? And where are
the youth? This presentation explores what happened when a group of boys were involved in
a multimedia storytelling project outside the walls of school. Through their intentional engagement
with various technologies and discursive practices, the boys produced texts and performed literate
identities that challenged dominant scripts that circulate about their lives. The possibilities for new
representational spaces that technologies present will also be discussed.

*Digital Storytelling 101- CAS-ROOM 247
Kean University PT3 Team
Although not designed to be a complete “how-to” on the creation of digital stories, this presentation
will offer a general overview on the tools and techniques needed to create digital stories. Necessary
hardware and software (with examples from both Mac and PC platforms) will be presented. The
importance of planning and integration of the major elements,e.g., images, audio, and scripts, will
be discussed. Examples of digital story techniques will be displayed.

Conference Reception DOWNS HALL