Innovative Course Design Using Digital Stories

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:03:26 -0500

A partnership between the Office of Undergraduate Education, Erickson School of Aging, and DoIT's New Media Studio resulted in a introductory course that connected students with residents of the Charlestown retirement community.

Students in the course, mostly freshmen and first-semester transfer students were paired with Charlestown residents to produce a digital story capturing a life lesson learned. As part of this effort, students were taught the technology skills necessary to produce a digital story.

On December 13th, at the Library Gallery, there was a screening of the stories. For information on that event visit the Baltimore Sunpapers story,

To date there have been almost 50 digital stories produced with Charlestown. Scroll down to the bottom of the link below to view the stories from this fall:
http://www.umbc.edu/oit/newmedia/studio/digitalstories/ctds.php

For information on the Erickson School of Aging, visit the url: http://erickson.umbc.edu/