The digital stories and posts below have been created by students and staff on the Digital Storytelling Workshops held in the Department of English Studies during 2019, 2020 and 2021. These are both pandemic stories and stories of students’ feelings about the study of English and, unsurprisingly about books! Literature is a subject that encompasses all other subjects in many ways. A subject where storytellers are common and where their influence is evident in the life-worlds of the real and imaginary, and somewhere in between.
Students in English reflect on disciplinary identity, their trajectory into the subject, critical theory, social media, identity politics and more. Delve into their life-worlds below and leave us your comments about what these stories meant to you. Enjoy!
Not gonna lie, I didn’t expect to get much out of DS. I was already pretty digitally-literate, no stranger to storytelling, and often reflected on transformative moments in my life, so I didn’t think it would teach me anything new. Turns out, there’s more than meets the eye here. Starting with the obvious: finding out […]
My Two Cents on My First Video I made this video with the ideas of ‘self-creation’, ‘identity’ and ‘the writing of one own’s narrative’ in mind. It is certainly a personal topic, and it was a very enjoyable process of self-discovery that has since spearheaded my creative ventures into video-editing and blog posting. I loved […]
When we were e-mailed about these workshops, the word ‘storytelling’ caught my eye. But something I wasn’t too familiar with was the ‘digital’ aspect of it. Digital Storytelling filled me with curiosity, but also hints of doubt in my digital abilities. Knowing this was therefore something perhaps out of my depth, I decided to give […]
I was already quite familiar with video editing before coming to this class, but I had never heard of digital storytelling. The class introduced me to a new form of creative expression and pushed me to take the time to create work in different formats; it helped me discover new tools and skills in storytelling, […]
It’s strange writing a blog post about the story of how I made a story in the digital storytelling workshop. In fact, producing this post I am thrown back to something like the uncertainty I felt when I walked into the first Digital Storytelling session. With a name as broad and open as ‘Digital Storytelling’, […]
I had only briefly heard of Digital Storytelling through a friend before I signed up to this course. It was a fairly last-minute, on a whim decision, but I do not regret it at all. Taking part in this course has been a wonderful way to end, and reflect on, my time as a literature […]
Returning to my digital story a year after making it, my first thought was ‘oh my goodness, does my voice really sound that weird!?’ but then it took me back to post-exams this time last year, when I first came across Digital Storytelling. Before I signed up for this course, I had never heard of […]
In the 2019 pilot of Digital Storytelling workshops in English Studies, I was privileged to sit on both sides of the fence as both instructor and participant. In working with Dr Teti Dragas, I helped design the sessions, and delivered elements linked to my own research in the creative industries, copyright, and digital skills. But in the process […]
