Let's Get Retro: Storytelling in the Digital Age

1- Short Session Description: Much of academia, especially in libraries, has either fully embraced or is turning toward digital means for most areas of communication and teaching. This session will submit that, although technology has huge benefits, something is being lost in translation. How can libraries help foster real dialogue and interaction between students/patrons and faculty/librarians? Can a communal hivemind still be created through bringing people together and what would that look like? Perhaps the best means of evolving our digital selves is to look back and draw from the analog world.

2- Session Style/Format: Interactive. Some introductory talking to present the issues, then mini breakout groups to create some potential solutions or pathways to solutions. Format is open to modification. Perhaps on site creation of pictorial storyboards?

3- Takeaways: New connections/ideas. Initiative to adopt and expand on non-digital methods of pedagogy.

4- Organization. I would like to initiate a CFP.

5- Contact Information - Robert Spinelli rspinelli@abcnash.edu