Course Description: The practices of digital storytelling bring the digital creation tools of the current age together with the varied traditions of storytelling. Digital storytelling connects the creative energies of the author-artist to the digital media techniques through which the artist expresses their creativity. Students in the course will exercise their creative energy in telling stories digitally as they develop their ability to use relevant digital (hardware and software) tools. Digital storytelling encompasses storytelling through sound, video, image, the intersection of word and image, and more. Accordingly, it lends itself well to the topics-based approach. Spring 2023: “Topics in Digital Storytelling: Podcasts” focuses on the techniques involved in telling engaging audio stories: Story structure, interviewing, sound capture, mixing, and editing. Students will work individually and collaboratively to pitch and produce a variety of shorter- and longer-form audio stories.
Student Description: This class gave me a better understanding of how to edit audio together as well as give me access to another form of media to be able to tell stories in. I became much more literate in garageband and how to use this software to edit audio. It also helped open my eyes to just how accessible this form of media.
