HT Lab: Cultivating Partnerships through Digi Storytelling
Digital Stories Working Group
November 22, 2021 at 10:43 AM
Friday, December 3, 2021 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. On Webex
How can digital storytelling open up collaborative opportunities and create new spaces of belonging and connection? In this HTLab, Jamie Gillan, Sarah Jewett,Charlotte Keniston, and Bill Shewbridge alongside student participants, will explore this question by sharing the beliefs and practices that underscore their digital storytelling collaborations across disciplines and institutions. Drawing on their experiences in the Transfer Equity Initiative, Digital Storytelling Internship, and Peaceworker Program, these facilitators bring expertise in utilizing digital storytelling in the classroom, in partnerships between higher ed institutions, in community engagement, and as a reflective tool for students. In this workshop, the facilitators will demonstrate how HTLab participants can cultivate their own digital storytelling project ideas for their courses, research, and community work and help them identify potential collaborations beyond their institutions.
In this lab, participants will:
Learn how digital storytelling can enhance academic, social, and civic outcomes/connections within a community
Leverage networks, collaborations, and partnerships to broaden and deepen digital storytelling work
Explore how digital storytelling can be used as a tool for critical reflection, knowledge creation, and sharing research within a course or program
Design a preliminary action plan for integrating digital storytelling into an educational context
Registration is required to attend this HTLab. Please register by Monday, November 29.
Questions? Contact Lloyd Ekpe, Inclusion Imperative Associate: lekpe1@umbc.edu. If you are unable to attend but would like to access a recording of the workshop, please contact Lloyd.
About the Facilitators
Jamie Gillan is an Associate Professor of English at Montgomery College (MC) where she is a recipient of a 2020 Outstanding Faculty Award. In addition to teaching courses in writing, research, and literature, she coordinates Collaborative Interdisciplinary Projects for the Paul Peck Humanities Institute and coordinates the Digital Storytelling Internship. She is a doctoral student in the Language, Literacy, and Culture program at UMBC. She also enjoys being an active part of the international digital storytelling community.
Charlotte Keniston is the Associate Director of the Shriver Peaceworker Fellows Program and a student in the Language, Literacy, and Culture doctoral program at UMBC where she studies community-based visual story work. Charlotte has taught classes at UMBC in Food Systems, Photography, and Public Art in the Visual Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies programs. She helps to organize UMBC’s Digital Storytelling initiatives and is active in the International Digital Storytelling community.
Sarah Jewett, Ph.D., is the Director of Innovation in Transfer Research and Practice at UMBC (Office of the Provost). As part of a broader effort to support transfer success, Sarah collaborates with partner community colleges to connect prospective transfer students with faculty mentors at UMBC through applied learning experiences. Digital storytelling plays an important role in this work. She is also an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Health Policy, and in the Language, Literacy and Culture doctoral program.
Bill Shewbridge is Professor of the Practice in Media and Communication Studies, teaching courses in intercultural media, television production, and digital storytelling. He is Executive Producer and founding Director of the UMBC New Media Studio where he focuses on advancing media literacy and exploring new technologies for learning.
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