Class members will create their own digital stories using still images, voice, video, music, sound, text, animation, artifacts and other materials. Harbaugh says that while some may think digital storytelling emphasizes the medium rather than the message, crafting a digital story still requires the basics of good writing. The emphasis is on the process of writing and knowing how to create and manipulate the elements of a good story. But with digital storytelling, you engage the audience differently. You are concerned with what the audience sees, hears and takes in.
Digital stories are incredibly powerful because so much is happening.
Teachers of grades kindergarten through 12th are invited to apply for the institute. Applicants are not required to have any specific computer skills. Curiosity and the spirit of adventure are the most important qualifications. There are ways to use digital storytelling that we have never even thought of and we want the teachers to tell us how they can fit this method into their teaching. Participants can receive two hours of WMU graduate credit for an additional charge.