1. 2020 Round One Session Ideas
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Questing for Increased Understanding and Empathy Through Digital Story Creation

J. Turner 5 years ago • 0
  1. Short Session Description. Do you find yourself watching nature documentaries instead of reading scholarly articles about the flora and fauna highlighted in these films? Do you occasionally lack motivation to read or write scholarly articles? If so, this session could be just what you need to start thinking about research through a creative lens. Participants will be introduced to digital storytelling and use this information to reflect upon digital story creation as a form of scholarly and creative work. They will then use group discussion and collaborative brainstorming to propose benefits and challenges of this form of inquiry, identify research questions that might be explored through the process of digital storytelling, and work together to address challenges and outline a digital storytelling process that will help address current research needs within librarianship or elsewhere.
  2. Session Format & Style. Small group breakout
  3. Takeaways. During this session, participants will learn about digital storytelling as an academic endeavor and leave with outlines of how to apply digital storytelling to a research question. Small groups of participants will use a sample research project or real/potential projects of their own to 1) identify how these projects could be adapted to a digital storytelling format, 2) determine possible benefits and challenges of conducting this research through digital storytelling, 3) collaborate to address possible challenges, and 4) begin to outline a digital storytelling process to address research needs. 
  4. Organization. I would love other folks practicing digital storytelling as a form of research to join me!
  5. Contact Information. Jennifer Turner, jennifer.turner@mnsu.edu 

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