Dr. Sheila Marie Aird and Dr. Tom Mackey will present on their international collaboration to teach Digital Storytelling at SUNY’s 29th Annual Conference on Instruction & Technology (CIT 2021). The presentation entitled “Collaborating to Teach Global Digital Storytelling Online” will explore their revision of the fully online Digital Storytelling course to unite SUNY Empire State College students from around the world. The theme of this year’s virtual conference is Working Together to Prepare all Students for a Lifetime of Learning and will take place May 24-28, 2021. According to the proposal that was accepted by SUNY Faculty Advisory Council on Teaching & Technology (FACT2) and the CIT Planning Committee, this presentation will address the following:
During a global pandemic Drs. Mackey and Aird worked together as a teaching team to combine our fully online sections of Digital Storytelling to create an inspiring international learning experience. As part of this collaboration, we expanded our course at SUNY Empire State College to connect learners from the United States and Canada with students in our international partnership programs in the Czech Republic (Prague), and Albania (Tirana). This fully online course prepares students to create their own empowering digital narratives and to collaborate on a final digital story about a cause they identify and examine in a collaborative digital project. Many of the teams selected the COVID-19 pandemic as their final topic while others explored issues related to racial justice and gender equity.
CIT 2021 presentation proposal (Aird and Mackey)
Drs. Aird and Mackey are scheduled to present at the CIT 2021 virtual conference on May 26th between 2:45 PM – 3:15 PM. We hope to see you there!
Global Digital Stories 