Multimedia narrative intro sketch

Slide 1: Multimedia narrative: an introductory sketch A NITLE workshop Hosted by Skidmore College December, 2006

Slide 2: Short digital video is a leading medium in 2006 • Older forms: trailers, commercials • Newer instances: Web films, mobile device shorts

Slide 3: Yet the short digital video as narrative form is relatively recent • Guerilla video • Underground film • Video art (Nam June Paik) • Public access tv

Slide 4: Short digital video in education • Dates back to educational tv • Learning objects • Film/media studies (two levels) • Perhaps slower in liberal arts world

Slide 5: Digital storytelling movement • Intersection of theater and technology • Berkeley project • Autobiographical/personal key

Slide 6: Digital storytelling movement • Political activism purposes: • Community • Healing development • Identity • Therapy exploration

Slide 7: Digital storytelling: popular successes • BBC Capture Wales, Telling Lives • StoryCorps (audio, New York City) • Contando Nuestras Historias (Telling Our Stories, California) • Australian Center for the Moving Image

Slide 8: Digital storytelling: popular successes • Stories of Service (US) • Storie de la Guerra (Italy) • Academic programs • Pedagogy

Slide 9: NITLE and multimedia narrative • Impressed by pedagogy • Expand to include non-personal stories

Slide 10: Pedagogical aspects Pedagogical uses: broadly • Learning object • Student composition

Slide 11: Pedagogical aspects Pedagogical uses: limitations • Other venues more appropriate for given situations • Nontrivial work required

Slide 12: Pedagogical aspects Integration aspects • Video contained in presentations • Stored in CMS, e-reserves, offline • Combine with other media projects • Mashups

Slide 13: More information? NITLE Laboratory http://nitle.org/index.php/nitle/laboratory Liberal Education Today blog http://b2e.nitle.org/