Digital Storytelling Durham: showcases digital stories, DS workshops and projects at Durham and other HE contexts as well as educational posts about the value, purpose and affordances of DS for educational and research purposes. Stories and posts are created by students and staff at Durham University and at other institutions nationally and internationally and from the Digital Storytelling Community.
What are digital stories? Digital stories are 2-4 minute videos created by a storyteller using voiceover, images and sometimes accompanying music, to tell a story about a transformational personal experience (Lambert, 2002). Storytellers create digital stories in the context of a group and a series of workshops led by a facilitator(s) who guides them through the process focusing on content development in terms of story as well as and digital and technological skills.
What’s there to explore on this site? The site has three key sections which you can navigate to from the main menu:
This powerful story and highly personal narrative told by Scarlett, a first year BA Education student as part of her summative assessment, tells of a number of key journeys in education: from her school years and her struggles here, her diagnosis of ADHD, her escape to another country and her discovery of herself, and to […]
Lindsey’s digital story explore our relationship with objects, a reflection from a museum conservator.
Sophie Little’s digital story In Between explores her journey to conservation through a reflection drawing on her love of photography.
Laura reflects eloquently and poetically on how objects contain memories that bring us back to our pasts. Her well-crafted story leads us to discover and reflect on our own objects and on the nature of objects as containers of memories and stories: as objects hold our individual histories, museums are holders of our shared histories. […]
In this project, we are required to produce a digital story about an object which is related to my journey to conservation. In my video, I shared about the story of my personal attachment to Tin Hau Temple. The reflection of digital storytelling workshop can be divided into 2 parts, creating a story and visualising […]
Sofia uncovers her experience as an international student, after being diagnosed with C-PTSD (Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder) and without access to mental health treatment.
Interested in digital storytelling for educational purposes? Why don’t you join our Digital Storytelling Community of Practice? Founded by Teti Dragas (creator of DS Durham), Richard Beggs (Ulster University) and Chris Thompson and Zac Gribble (JISC). You can start singing up to our mailing list or reading more about what we are doing on our DS blog.
This work into exploring DS in HE was instigated and led by Dr Teti Dragas (Durham Centre for Academic Development) who is passionate about storytelling and its potential for personal and collective transformation. In 2018, creatively bringing her interdisciplinary background in storytelling (English Studies), pedagogic and reflective practice (Higher Education Teaching and Learning), she was compelled to explore the potential of stories in a deeper way, to see what they could add to current ways of learning in the academy.
