Digital Storytelling for all
Gordon Duffy-McGhie
Director - Teaching, learning and
student development

Plato’s Cave

• Outline my reasons for using digital stories
• Describe the creative process with reference to ‘The Seven
Elements of Digital Storytelling’[1]
• Discuss the opportunities afforded to both students and staff
through the development of digital storytelling skills
[1] ‘The Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling’., Theory Into Practice, 47:220–228, 2008 Copyright © The College of
Education and Human Ecology, The Ohio State University ISSN: 0040-5841 print/1543-0421 online
During this session I will...

Why?
Attendance Engagement
Removing
the ‘spoon’

Why?
To change the
communications
architecture.
Regurgitated
discourse
Collaborative
connectivity

Phase 1 - Previewing
To move from this…

To this…

To finally this…

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Post-Session
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Post-session views:

Impact?
More visual! - looks like fun!
We can see what we’ll be doing?
This is what I came here to study.
Works well on my MOBILE!

Phase 2: integration
Flipped
content
Peer
review
Formative
tasks

The Seven
Affordances
of Digital
Storytelling
Point
of
View
Dramatic
Question
Emotional
Content
The Gift
of the
voice
Power of
the
Soundtrack
Economy
Pacing

Phase 3: new role – new challenges

Staff CPD
Developing skills – training the educators!
• Writing
• Organisation
• Technology
• Presentation
• Interview
• Interpersonal
• Problem-solving
• Assessment
• Peer Review
Emotional Intelligence

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Thank you
Gordon Duffy-McGhie
Director: Teaching, learning and student development
g.duffy-mcghie@mbro.ac.uk