“This course is designed to explore the calls for “diversity”within this complicated environment. Central to this exploration is deep knowledge of who we are, as individuals and as a class. My goal is for us to practice being a multicultural community while heightening our understanding and construction of what this phrase means personally and communally.”
-Professor Sue Ellen Henry
Project Description: Students were asked to create a 3 – 4 minute long digital story that focuses on themes of identity such as race, social class or some other identity marker.
Course: EDUC 318/618: Multiculturalism and Education
Instructor: Professor of Education/Director of Teaching & Learning Center
Project: 3-4 minute digital story
Students: 11
Semester: Fall 2014
Duration of Assignment: Entire Semester, 15 weeks
Technology: iShowU, FCPX
Class Blog: http://digitalstories.blogs.bucknell.edu/
StoryCenter: http://storycenter.org/stories/
Syllabus: EDUC318:618 Syllabus
Digital Storytelling Assignment Packet
Digital Storytelling Assignment Rubric
Learning Goals:
- Learning to listen deeply to our own and others’ experiences;
- Learning new tools to tell our own story;
- Sharing stories of identity that may be outside the cultural mainstream;
- In the words of master digital storyteller Joe Lambert, “[to change] from an ‘I’ point of view to a ‘we’, [and] become…more sensitive to dialogues…that address racial and social justice” (Lambert, Digital Storytelling: Capturing Live, Creating Community, 131).
Skills Learned:
- critical thinking
- reflection on one’s own identity and the identity of others
- digital literacy
- editing
- multimodal storytelling
EDUC 318/618: Multiculturalism and Education Scaffolded Semester Calendar
Thurs, Sept 14th-Digital Story Introduction
Thurs, Sept 18th-Research Session
Tues, Sept 23rd-Less formal Story Circle, discuss emotion in storytelling
Thurs, Oct 2nd-Story Circle
Tues, Oct 7th-Image Exercise
Thurs, Oct 16th-2nd draft of script, story circle #2
Thurs, Oct 30th-Storyboarding, Audio Booth, Audacity training
Thurs, Nov 6th-Storyboard draft due
Tues, Nov 11th-Final script due
Thurs, Nov 13th-Editing session with FCPX
Thurs, Nov 18th-Recorded narrations due/peer review
Thurs, Nov 20th-Storyboard Peer Reveiw
Tues, Dec 2nd-Video Draft due
Thurs, Dec 4th-Video Draft #2 due
Fri, Dec 12th-Final Video Due/Presentations