Abstract:
Digital Storytelling has come to represent a method, a style and a value system that has informed the practice of thousands of educators. Allowing students to explore their lives in short films, created with the minimum elements of photography, the voice, soundtrack and a few effects, has helped to lift creative writing from the page to the screen. The methods of the Center for Digital Storytelling include a commitment to reflective listening and engagement with students lives. They seek to use personal story sharing as a transformative process in constructing identity and re-framing the experience of loss and trauma. CDS Founder Joe Lambert will discuss the necessity for a revolution in our thinking about emotional courage and the learning process. He will also address how Digital Storytelling is a catalyst for personal and professional change.
Biographical Information:
Joe Lambert is the founder and director of the Center for Digital Storytelling, an international training organization in Berkeley, California. In the early nineties, he developed the Digital Storytelling Workshop with Dana Atchley and Nina Mullen. As a writer, director, educator, media technologist, and producer, his work spans 25 years, and has taken him across the United States and to 22 countries. Author of Digital Storytelling, Capturing Lives and Creating Community, and the Digital Storytelling Cookbook, Lambert has helped to evangelize the ideas of first person media storytelling for the generation of educators working in new media.
