The commons has been an important ideal for libraries and colleges for a long time: a collaborative, multi-department resource that is open to all members of a community. In academic libraries that ideal generally takes physical shape as a learning commons, which brings together information, resources, and professionals to facilitate scholarship and learning. What does …
The commons has been an important ideal for libraries and colleges for a long time: a collaborative, multi-department resource that is open to all members of a community. In academic libraries that ideal generally takes physical shape as a learning commons, which brings together information, resources, and professionals to facilitate scholarship and learning. What does …
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 …
“Que viva la mujer! Que viva Whittier!” exclaims Maria de la Luz while speaking about her photo picturing a group of women who have bonded over hikes in Turnbull Canyon. “We leave our troubles on the trail and we like to laugh, sometimes we cry” says Maria de la Luz. Her name means Maria of …
This semester students from the paired course “Medical Sociology and the Science Behind Obesity” are engaging in a new way to do digital storytelling. The method known as PhotoVoice is borrowed from a movement that aims to use participatory photography as a self-advocacy tool. This assignment asks students to use photography and video as a way to tell …
This past spring, Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies Rosemary Carbine taught her course Green Religion at Whittier College but this time she introduced some new digital elements. DigLibArts asked her to share her digital pedagogy experience: Tell us about the class that you taught and how you worked with DigLibArts. How do you normally …
This May we took our ‘show on the road!’ Instructional Technologist, Kathy Filatreau and I traveled to Denmark with professors of social work, Paula Sheridan and Lisa Ibanez and 19 Whittier College students. This study abroad course is designed to bring students to Denmark to research and understand how this country runs its welfare and...
This May we took our ‘show on the road!’ Instructional Technologist, Kathy Filatreau and I traveled to Denmark with professors of social work, Paula Sheridan and Lisa Ibanez and 19 Whittier College students. This study abroad course is designed to bring students to Denmark to research and understand how this country runs its welfare and …
I love my job. I really do! There are times however, that I struggle to remain motivated and my creativity is clouded by the many to do lists in my life—from work to home. Last week I took a day off work. I didn’t alert my family. I told my boss I just needed a...
I recently found a picture taken of me on a hill overlooking the Krak des Chevaliers in western Syria during a 2003 trip. I am pictured with my video camera, tripod and a bag strapped to my waist that holds brick-like backup battery packs and as many mini DV recording cassettes as I could carry. I...
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