Stay Fluid

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute at Lane Community College

Digital Humanities at the Community College 

If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children’s mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives: I know! Let’s start with the teachers…

 July 13-17, 2015

I was privileged this summer to be on the faculty of a summer institute funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, written by my colleague Anne McGrail.  It was my job to introduce digital storytelling to the fellows (as they are called), who came from all over the United States.

There were two projects. The first we accomplished as a group in twenty-four hours. Borrowing an idea I learned from my mentor Alan Levine, I had everyone point their cell phones at an object in the world and spontaneously record how that was a metaphor for what is important to remember about teaching digital humanities.

They e-mailed me their 15 second clips, and I cobbled them together quickly into this video, which was shown on the second day of the institute:

And then I threw the Really Big Challenge at them:

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It doesn’t always have to be high tech to get the point across! Here is my digital storytelling challenge for the week on the white board, initiating an explosive week of creativity, despair, and joy.

The rest of the week went by quickly as my project was supposed to be a small part of the overall experience. I’m not sure it turned out that way because the last day was our Film Festival, which I thought was a Very Big Deal, indeed! Just about everyone had done some version of the project, to my pride and joy.

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Thursday was Crunch Day when all heads disappeared into computers to edit digital stories. There was LOTS of peer-to-peer mentoring going on as digital humanities teachers took on the challenge of learning new programs such as iMovie and weVideo in literally hours. Photo Courtesy of Russell Shitabata
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That’s me listening to one of the “fellows” explain her idea for her digital story while others work on the various projects going on during this busy week. Photo Courtesy of Russell Shitabata
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That’s the great Anne McGrail in the middle in blue getting photobombed by the gathered forces of “fellows.” Photo Courtesy of Russell Shitabata

Of course, in the midst of this flurry of intense activity, I had to demo the digital storytelling making process from start to finish. I was asking them to do really rough and ready work–no time for perfectionism or refinements–and I felt I had to (actually was forced to) abide by that maxim. So this is the digital story I made alongside my students and showed to kick off the Film Fest on Friday at the end of the Institute. It’s hard for me to post something with such a rough sound track: I was out in the atrium, holding my cell phone up to my mouth, and what can I say? Those are field conditions!

A final word of thanks to Anne McGrail for including me on the faculty of this wonderful Institute, and a special thanks to the National Endowment for the Humanities for their generous funding of this project.

23 thoughts on “Stay Fluid

  1. Stan Grindstaff says:

    Superb Sandy! Loved the new ways to look at things (at least for me)—bicycle needs a person to make meaningful, break the rules & content is reshaped but still present (cookie broken in two), useful things don’t have to be fully understood (electricity), stacking rocks—no right answer just part of the process… Good on ya!

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  2. Kathy Onarheim says:

    Looks like it was a great experience for all learners.
    I would not have noticed the rough sound if you hadn’t mentioned it because the story and content kept me engaged and focused on it.

    These learning situations often make me wonder why they are not the norm instead of the special session or exception, and how they can be available and successful for all learners.

    Great choice of projects. I got a lot out of viewing both video summaries.

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  3. Gloria says:

    We have come a long way from our basic ABC’s
    The gathered group, reflects the quality of a new order …willingness to let go of their confines and structures and to open the door to the creative process life has to offer. …and then to share this with others on this new world stage is
    Awesome
    Beauty
    Capture
    Wonderful week wish I could have attended!

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  4. Susan says:

    NICE, Sandy! It gave me a little flavor of the institute. Did you post the fellows’ final projects?

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  5. Janet Barocco says:

    I saw your final project “Staying Fluid”. So inspiring to see the creative process in action through the mosaic of different approaches each participant took. This video of yours about your journey with digital tech gives me hope. Seeing that others have the same frustrations and fears I do about the new technologies, I don’t feel so alone and stupid! Being the lover of simpler times that I am, I DID really enjoy the ending scenes of the person sewing with handcrafted twine and the duck mamma and brood’s fearless journey across the road.
    Brava! You’ve done it again, Sandy.

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