Dr. Sheila Marie Aird and Dr. Thomas P. Mackey just published a new book Teaching Digital Storytelling: Inspiring Voices Through Online Narratives for Rowman & Littlefield. This book is featured as part of Trudi Jacobson’s Innovations in Information Literacy Series. Drs. Aird and Mackey worked with an outstanding team of authors from other SUNY schools, Temple University, and universities in South Africa. All of the chapters present innovative case studies about teaching with digital storytelling by applying information literacy, metaliteracy, and visual literacy. The new book features a Foreword written by futurist and digital storytelling pioneer Dr. Bryan Alexander.
This book project emerged from the collaboration initiated by Drs. Aird and Mackey to design and teach a fully online course in Digital Storytelling that brings together Empire State University students studying in Prague, Czech Republic and the United States. This course embeds key aspects of the metaliteracy framework and integrates resources and learning objects published at the metaliteracy.org blog. The editors wrote the framing chapter about this case study Metaliteracy and Global Digital Storytelling: Building Shared Learning Communities. This new chapter builds on their previous publication for Open Praxis Integrating Metaliteracy into the Design of a Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) Course in Digital Storytelling.
According to the book description:
This book presents the stories of educators who through digital storytelling inspire students from diverse communities to construct their empowering digital narratives. Educators from a wide range of disciplines present innovative case studies of teaching digital storytelling through the lens of personal narratives, metaliteracy, and information literacy. They describe how teaching students to tell their personal digital stories prepares them as learners who are reflective while playing active learner roles such as producer, publisher, and collaborator.
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538172919/Teaching-Digital-Storytelling-Inspiring-Voices-through-Online-Narratives
We congratulate all of our chapter authors and welcome you to read the book and let us know about your own digital storytelling journey!
Sheila and Tom
Global Digital Stories 
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