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Final Course Reflection

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I’d like to take a few minutes to reflect on this last semester in the Digital Storytelling class at CU Denver University.  I had many opportunities to work with my classmates and learn the art of Digital Storytelling through the DS 106 Daily Creates, Digital Story Critiques, a Gallery Walk of my peers writing, and then creating my own Digital Story about the technology company I work for.  This was a great way to make connections between Digital Storytelling and the endless possibilities for storytelling in the workplace environment.  It was easy to imagine the ways I could use this new tool within my community at school and at work.  I felt like storytelling was such a personal way to present information to my peers and audience.  Here are the three main types of digital stories I reviewed and critiqued:

1) Personal Narratives – stories that contain accounts of significant incidents in one’s life

2) Historical Documentaries – stories that examine dramatic events that help us understand the past

3) Informal/Instructional – stories designed to inform or instruct the viewer on a particular concept or practice. (This is the type I chose for my own Digital Story Creation.)

John Dewey- “We do not learn from experience … we learn from reflecting on experience.”

Moving forward, I would like to keep reflecting on my learning in my next classes Spring semester.  Dedicating the time to reflect on my learning in this class further defined my ideas and thoughts about future projects and direction I’d like to go.  This class was  also a great opportunity to tap into new thoughts and ideas in the storytelling community.  Digital storytelling is a proven effective tool for the classroom and the positive effects of implementing it are astounding.  Here are the seven elements I used weekly to critique and create digital stories this semester and I will remember moving forward into my eLearning career in the future:

The Seven Elements of Digital Storytelling

1. Point of View – what is the perspective of the author?
2. A Dramatic Question – a question that will be answered by the end of the story.
3. Emotional Content – serious issues that speak to us in a personal and powerful way.
4. The Gift of your Voice – a way to personalize the story to help the audience
understand the context.
5. The Power of the Soundtrack – music or other sounds that support the storyline.
6. Economy – simply put, using just enough content to tell the story without overloading
the viewer with too much information.
7. Pacing – related to Economy, but specifically deals with how slowly or quickly the
story progresses.

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