Symposium for Teaching and Learning with Technology

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.