Melissa Rock (State University of New York at New Paltz) Over the past few years I have worked closely with instructional technology staff at various institutions to create progressive multi-media final projects that challenge students to think creatively about how and for what purposes they labor to frame, package and share their scholarly research. The […]
Community Video: The Shamokin Fire History Museum Experience
Carl Milofsky and Brianna Derr (Bucknell University) In community video academics engage members of a community using ethnographic research methods and then develop projects jointly that address a community need and also express meaningful aspects of the local community’s culture using the medium of video. A partnership has been developed between Bucknell University and the […]
Using Digital Storytelling To Bridge the Town-Gown Divide: Creating Narratives with and for Community Members of Bethlehem’s South Side
Mary Foltz, David Fine, Sarah Stanlick, Juan Palacio Moreno, Elijah Ohrt, and Meg Kelly (Lehigh University) During the summer of 2015, a group of Lehigh University undergraduate students designed a digital story-telling project that invited community members to narrate stories about the city in which the University is situated. With a specific focus upon countering […]