Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Welcome to our blog! (This course has ended)

Welcome to the course blog for the Interim 2011 Digital Storytelling course. This course was offered as an undergraduate and graduate combined opportunity, through the Department of Telecommunication and Film and the Gender and Race Studies Department, taught by filmmaker Rachel Raimist.

From the course syllabus:

Course Description:  Storytelling is a tool for preserving memory, writing history, learning, entertaining, organizing, and often healing in communities of color.  It is in the telling of stories that people build identities, construct meaning, and make connections with others and the world.  In this course, we will investigate modes and power dimensions of digital storytelling, analyze the role of digitized media as a method of individual healing, and examine media as tools for community organizing and development.  We will explore media making, creative writing, and memoir in both literary and digital writing, and examine the gendered, racialized, and classed dimensions of digital media narratives. Students will learn to produce creative work (writing, video, photography, sound and web-based media) and gain technical proficiency in Final Cut Pro (Mac-based video editing).  Students will produce photographic and video work that will be shared on the course blog and the TCF Vimeo site.  No technical expertise is necessary! No pre-requisites required.
Course Goals and Student Learning Outcomes:
  • Gain a deeper understanding of the theoretical and practical issues of digital media-based storytelling
  • Consider the impact of digital tools, methodology, and content of digital stories on individuals, community, and U.S. social justice movements such as the feminism
  • Analyze the ethical and moral dimensions inherent in representing the lives of others; discuss gendered, colonial, and ethnographic gazes
  • Demonstrate creativity, analytical thinking, and technical skill in digital media making
  • Gain a firm grounding in basic digital media production tools; develop skills with tools of technology (Mac-based hardware and media making software)
  • Understand the concepts and methodologies of media making, visual literacy, photographic composition, and principles of video editing


You will find the posts in reverse chronology, meaning the most recent post will appear at the top of the page. The final assignment was a reflective blog post at the conclusion of class, and the post before that is the student's digital stories.

Hope you enjoy!

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