Webinar: Digital Storytelling – The Human Connection in Online Learning

Tuesday, February 21,2012 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM CST

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Speaker Dr. Bernard Robin and Dr. Sara McNeil

Position: Associate Professor of Instructional Technology
Company: University of Houston - Department of Curriculum & Instruction

Event Description

Once upon a time people told stories to share experiences and to teach. Digital storytelling is the art of telling stories with digital multimedia to share a reflective narrative.As with traditional storytelling, most digital stories focus on a specific topic and contain a particular point of view. However, as the name implies, digital stories usually contain some mixture of computer-based images, text, recorded audio narration, video clips and/or music. Digital stories can vary in length, but most of the stories used in education typically last between two and ten minutes.

Digital storytelling can provide a creative ingredient to make the online learning process engaging and can lead to deeper learning. More and more organizations are harnessing the power of Digital Storytelling to enhance their online learning programs. And with that, many learning professionals are encountering the same challenges, such as: How can I use Digital Storytelling in online learning programs if I don't even know how to create a Digital Story myself? How difficult is it to create a Digital Story? What’s the cost?

In this webinar, we will:

· Define Digital Storytelling

· Talk about how Digital Storytelling enhances learning, motivation and engagement

· Walk through the steps to (properly) design and create a digital story

· Share some examples

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Webinar: Digital Storytelling – The Human Connection in Online Learning

Tuesday, February 21,2012 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM CST

Speaker Dr. Bernard Robin and Dr. Sara McNeil

Position: Associate Professor of Instructional Technology
Company: University of Houston - Department of Curriculum & Instruction

Biography

Dr. Bernard Robin, Associate Professor of Instructional Technology at the University of Houston, teaches courses on the integration of technology into the curriculum, educational uses of multimedia and the design and development of community-based web sites. He is the designer and administrator of the Educational Uses of Digital Storytelling website (http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/) and serves as the co-chair of the Society for Technology and Teacher Education’s Special Interest Group on Digital Video and Digital Storytelling. Dr. Robin won the University of Houston Teaching Excellence Award for Innovation in Technology in 2010 and the 2009 Merlot Award for Exemplary Online Learning Resources for his Digital Storytelling website. He has published articles and book chapters on the educational uses of emerging technologies and the professional development of teachers. Throughout his academic career, Dr. Robin has made presentations at local, regional, national and international conferences and has conducted educational technology workshops in the US, Canada, Europe and Asia.

Dr. Sara McNeil, Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of Instructional Technology at the University of Houston, teaches courses in instructional design, the collaborative design and development of multimedia and the visual representation of information. She has won numerous teaching awards and is currently the chair of Technology, Instruction, Cognition & Learning SIG of AERA. Her multimedia projects include the design and development of Digital History (http://www.digitalhistory2.uh.edu/), a free, comprehensive resource for American history teachers. Digital History has been named one of the Top 5 resources in U.S. history and has been selected for the National Endowment for the Humanities EdSITEment list of exemplary online resources. Dr. McNeil has presented nationally on educational uses of web 2.0 tools and teaches graduate courses about using and evaluating these tools in educational environments.

Webinar: Digital Storytelling – The Human Connection in Online Learning

Tuesday, February 21,2012 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM CST

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Webinar: Digital Storytelling – The Human Connection in Online Learning

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