Multimedia narrative intro sketch
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The document discusses the emergence of short digital videos as a narrative form and their growing use in education. It notes that while digital storytelling has traditionally focused on personal, autobiographical stories, there is interest in expanding the form to include non-personal narratives as well. The document outlines some popular digital storytelling projects and examines the pedagogical uses and limitations of incorporating short digital videos into teaching, including how they can be integrated into presentations, content management systems, and combined with other media.
Multimedia narrative intro sketch
- 1. Multimedia narrative: an introductory sketch A NITLE workshop Hosted by Skidmore College December, 2006
- 2. Short digital video is a leading medium in 2006 Older forms: trailers, commercials Newer instances: Web films, mobile device shorts
- 3. Yet the short digital video as narrative form is relatively recent Guerilla video Underground film Video art (Nam June Paik) Public access tv
- 4. Short digital video in education Dates back to educational tv Learning objects Film/media studies (two levels) Perhaps slower in liberal arts world
- 5. Digital storytelling movement Intersection of theater and technology Berkeley project Autobiographical/personal key
- 6. Digital storytelling movement purposes: Healing Identity exploration Political activism Community development Therapy
- 7. Digital storytelling: popular successes BBC Capture Wales, Telling Lives StoryCorps (audio, New York City) Contando Nuestras Historias (Telling Our Stories, California) Australian Center for the Moving Image
- 8. Digital storytelling: popular successes Stories of Service (US) Storie de la Guerra (Italy) Academic programs Pedagogy
- 9. NITLE and multimedia narrative Impressed by pedagogy Expand to include non-personal stories
- 10. Pedagogical aspects Pedagogical uses: broadly Learning object Student composition
- 11. Pedagogical aspects Pedagogical uses: limitations Other venues more appropriate for given situations Nontrivial work required
- 12. Pedagogical aspects Integration aspects Video contained in presentations Stored in CMS, e-reserves, offline Combine with other media projects Mashups
- 13. More information? NITLE Laboratory http://nitle.org/index.php/nitle/laboratory Liberal Education Today blog http://b2e.nitle.org/