Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology

As our 2008 Keynote Speaker Lawerence Lessig pointed out, students are communicating differently these days. Dr. Kathleen Brown, Justin Miller, and Chris Millet give us some insight on the current generation of "storytellers". Click on through to the session notes and download this Symposium 2008 podcast for more.

I've looked forward to Kathleen Brown's Next Generation Storytellers presentation. With Dr. Brown are Chris Millet and Justin Miller.

Chris offered a general background of digital storytelling. Simply, it's storytelling using a variety of the available multimedia tools. The Stories revolve around a theme- not the technology. It could be a photo montage, a podcast, or a collaborative voice thread. Remixing- using existing media- to tell a new story, is currently a popular method. There are a number of pedagogical benefits: engagement, motivation, dual-coding, authentic learning. And, it can serve as a "hook", as in a great Astro001 video example on the Composition of a Comet. Poor Steven.