Virtual Storytelling for the Classroom: Using Digital and Media Tools to Create Beautiful Web Stories, Hair, Summer 2019

Note: Course payment or purchase order of $975, payable to Castleton University, is due at the time of registration. A purchase order number can be entered into the online registration form. If paying by check, please mail the check to: Financial & Registration Services, Castleton University, 62 Alumni Drive, Castleton, VT 05735. To help us ensure that your payment is applied to the correct course, PLEASE WRITE “CFS” IN THE CHECK MEMO LINE. Thank you.

Course Description

Stories engage learners online.  Digital storytelling is one way for students and teachers to share their knowledge.  Learn how to model being a creative communicator through the use of various free web tools that combine, publish content, and share projects.  Students will engage in the writing process through simple, yet highly engaging web content.  Examples of web tools such as Adobe Spark, Voicethread, Storybird, Canva, Fotor and more!  This is an AWESOME way for speech and language play, sight words proficiency, practicing with narrative prompts, story starters, creative storytelling and even 2nd language acquisition techniques.  This course is SIMPLE but will WOW your students!

 Course Objectives/Goals 

• Create activities that incorporate highly dynamic presentations into the classroom
• Create lessons and activities that will promote interactive learning
• Use collaborative tools for creative communication techniques in the classroom as well as with other teachers
• Construct a comfort level with emerging technologies and create a toolbox for their own classroom.
• Prepare students on how to incorporate technology-enabled narrative (digital storytelling) as an effective pedagogical tool to support teaching and to effectively stimulate learning.
• Demonstrate a working knowledge of capturing and manipulating digital text, image, sound, and video;
• Integrate different media (text, images, sound, video) into a seamless online environment. This includes gathering, selecting, organizing and evaluating information and present in digital formats
• Create narrative projects with digital media that reflect teaching practices

Required Texts

Instructor will provide via LMS, no purchases required.

Course Expectations

Contact the instructor for a full course syllabus, including the weekly schedule.

For Additional Course Information

Jennifer Hair
(816) 225-9338

For Additional Registration Information:

Bethany Sprague

(802) 468-1325

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