Teaching Digital Storytelling

Inspiring Voices through Online Narratives

Sheila Marie Aird, Thomas P. Mackey

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781538172933
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Library & Information Science
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Everyone has a story to tell, and this book will inspire and guide readers to teach and learn through the production of digital narratives. This book presents the stories of educators who through digital storytelling inspire students from diverse communities to construct their empowering digital narratives. Educators from a wide range of disciplines present innovative case studies of teaching digital storytelling through the lens of personal narratives, metaliteracy, and information literacy. They describe how teaching students to tell their personal digital stories prepares them as learners who are reflective while playing active learner roles such as producer, publisher, and collaborator. As an innovative resource for teaching and learning with digital media, this book:
Combines the theory and practice of digital storytelling with metaliteracy and the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher EducationExplores how to inspire learners to share their original digital narrativesOffers the opportunity to explore and address issues of race, class, and gender to give voice to these issues as part of the storytelling processInvestigates the role of diversity, equity, and inclusion in writing and producing original digital narrativesExamines novel approaches to collaborative digital storytelling and peer reviewPresents pioneering models for global digital storytelling among international learners onlineDescribes empowering digital narratives constructed by students who found and shared their voices through this creative processProvides inventive models for teaching effective planning through well-written scripts and visual storyboardsOffers openly-available resources such as rubrics, assignment descriptions, and digital technologiesShowcases the application of metaliteracy OER in digital storytelling learning activities and coursesThrough this book, faculty, librarians, school library media specialists, and instructional designers will learn how to teach the theory and practice of digital storytelling. This innovative resource will also empower students to reflect on their roles as digital storytellers and metaliterate learners in today's dynamic and evolving information environment.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
• Preface
• List of Figures, Tables, and Textboxes
• Chapter 1: Metaliteracy and Global Digital Storytelling: Building Shared Learning Communities
• Chapter 2: Digital Storytelling and Cognitive Justice in Academic Information Services in Southern Africa—A Story Waiting to Be Discovered
• Chapter 3: Poetic Ethnography as Digital Storytelling: Encouraging Metaliteracy and Creating Meta-Theater
• Chapter 4: Voicing and Agency through Autoethnography
• Chapter 5: “It Was Awesome. No One was Telling Us What We Had to Write!”: Empowering Young Writers through Digital Bookmaking
• Chapter 6: The Metaliteracy of Memes: Having Students Track the Flow of Information
• Chapter 7: Who Takes Care of the Carer? Turning the Lens on the Facilitator
• Chapter 8: Typhoid of 1843 on StoryMaps: Collaborating to Tell Local History
• Chapter 9: Reflections on Digital Storytelling as a Learner-Centered Approach to Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Classrooms
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors