Digital Storytelling Learning Communities

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Digital Storytelling is about community.  We tell stories to transfer knowledge, to make sense of experience and to teach values. Stories address the listener as a human being, not as a member of a class or society.  Stories are told with the anticipation to connect to others. Digital Storytelling is simply, a way to tell …

Greenleaf Slam 2017

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Schedule for the Greenleaf Slam 12:00 PM – 12:15 PM Welcoming, Introduction to Judges 12:15 PM – 12:40 PM Kourtney Brodnax, “Just Doing It: Digitally Diversifying the Swoosh Brand.” 12:40 PM – 1:05 PM Alyse James, “Theater as a Catalyst for Social Change” 1:05 PM – 1:30 PM Christina Ibarra, “Digital Pedagogy in Social Work” 1:30 PM – …

DigLibArts 2020: “Only Connect”

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Ubiquitous technology challenges us to ponder and practice the values that motivate us as individuals and unite us as a community. Digital technology can isolate us. With headphones in place, screens held up to our eyes, and thoughts far away from the present moment, we can ignore the person sitting next to us. Focused on recording a …

DigLibArts 2020: Digital well-being for the liberal arts

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What is digital well-being, and how does it relate to the liberal arts? Digital well-being can be defined as the ability to define and develop a nurturing personal and/or community cyberinfrastructure.  This goal articulates one facet of Whittier’s mission to “prepare students from diverse backgrounds to excel in a complex global society” by empowering individuals …

DigLibArts 2020: “Only Connect”

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Ubiquitous technology challenges us to ponder and practice the values that motivate us as individuals and unite us as a community. Digital technology can isolate us. With headphones in place, screens held up to our eyes, and thoughts far away from the present moment, we can ignore the person sitting next to us. Focused on recording a … Continue reading DigLibArts 2020: “Only Connect”

Here’s Why You Should be at the Greenleaf Slam…

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The DigLibArts Student Tech Liaisons are now soliciting multimedia projects, digital stories, research posters, infographics, and other creative or scholarly works taking advantage of the intersections between culture, information and technology to showcase at our second Research Slam. For more info, click here. Below are ten reasons why you should present or attend this year’s Slam! 1. …

Video Tools

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Check out these blog posts about various video tools! Tutorial: Paper to Video Tutorial: Using iMovie Digital Storytelling

Call for Participation

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  When & Where Friday, March 24, 2017 12 pm – 5:00 pm Villalobos Hall About the Research Slam One of the goals of the Whittier DigLibArts team is to investigate and highlight innovative ways of combining traditional liberal arts research with information media and technology. In this tradition, the DigLibArts, the Tech Liaisons, and …

Bullet Journaling

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A New Year and new semester brings a lot of self-promises, especially around lifestyle. In 2016, the second most popular New Year’s resolution in Britain was to get organized (The Sun). Increasingly, however, there has been an interesting revival of a back-to-basics mode of organization: good old paper planners. Whether taking form as bullet journals …

Tutorial: Using iMovie version 10.0.6

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What is it? iMovie is a Free Video Editing Software Application which is only available on Apple Products such as Mac and iOS (Macbook Pro, Air, iPhone, iPad).  If are more comfortable creating your movie on a PC, refer to our WeVideo tutorials.  For this tutorial I used the 10.0.6 version but all versions are …