Hearing the student voice

2. Digital storytelling: Hearing the student voice

3. Richard Beggs
Caitlin O’Dowd
Tony McGovern
Christopher Mitchell

4. Richard Beggs
Lecture in HE Practice
Centre for HE Research and Practice
SFHEA | CMALT | FCHERP | Distinguished Learning and
Teaching Support Fellow | @RBeggsDL | #UUCHERP

5. Session Outline
• Welcome activity (Story time)
• Introduction
• Digital storytelling workshop overview Digital story showcase
oCaitlin’s Story
oTony’s story
oChristopher’s story
• Questions on student stories
• Discussion and reflection in groups and using Mentimeter.com

6. Story time (2 mins each)
1. Find an item you have with you
2. Share with the person beside you
3. A story that this item triggers in your memory
4. Then swap and let them tell their story

7. Analogue/digital watch

8. Overview

9. Digital storytelling – Why?
• Doing with Ulster staff for last 4 years
• Share research or teaching practice
• Started teaching as an assessment tool in
• HTM undergrad final year group module – Showcasing a tourist event
• COM Postgrad module – partnership with community groups
• MEd HE Practice – assessment (Sept 2019)
• Missing student voice and experiences of higher education

10. Digital storytelling – Why (continued)?
• CHERP and ADDL had 4 placements starting September 2018
• Use as an induction tool in their 1st week to encourage belonging
• Capture their transition to HE story and share on our site
• Had promised an academic to work with his students on
mindfulness stories
• Also promised storytelling to colleagues in QuB and NI Assembly RaISe

11. The workshops

12. Workshop 1

13. Workshop 2

14. The skills that are enhanced

15. Skills
• Planning and storyboarding
• Reflection
• Scriptwriting and concise editing
• Creativity
• Sourcing Images CC
• Presentation Skills
• Digital Capabilities – Audio recording and editing, video editing
and production

16. Student voices

17. Caitlin O’Dowd
Interactive Design Assistant
Centre for HE Research and Practice

18. Tony McGovern
Interactive Design Assistant
Centre for HE Research and Practice

19. Christopher Mitchell
PASS Co-Ordinator
Access Digital and Distributed Learning

20. Any questions for the students?

21. Discussion

22. Discussion (5 mins)
In pairs discuss:
• What stories could you tell?

23. Menti digital feedback
Go to www.menti.com
Code 46975

24. Big thanks to:
Chris Thomson Jisc

25. Questions/comments?
Images:
• “Questions” by Derek Bridges, CCBY, https://flic.kr/p/5DeuzB
• All other images © Ulster University
• Image Source Mobvoi
• "DSCN5900" by Cyberslayer is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0