Digital Storytelling Course Overview
This course looks at the development, production, and use of digital stories. Digital storytelling has become an avenue of expression leading to new forms of social networking and a means through which storytelling is re-made for different media.
The purpose is to examine techniques for digital storytellers. It includes everything digital nomads need to know about conceptualizing, editing and producing stories for online platforms and audiences.
The capacity for digital storytelling has developed through the availability of convergent communication technologies, particularly consumer grade technologies such as those in smartphones and tablets. The availability of these technologies has meant that new skills and techniques of writing and producing are necessary which fit with computer screen technologies and other parameters of these new media forms.
Theories of narrative form, visuals, sound, music, subjectivity and identity will form part of the course with an examination of forms of collective and political engagement that develop out of the digital story.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, successful students will be able to:
- Demonstrate developed knowledge of the principles and concepts of framing, sound, composition, visual storytelling, digital storytelling, and culture
- Demonstrate a sense of aesthetics and skills in communicating through both static and moving images
- Display creativity and originality in effectively developing and managing a visual story production
- Demonstrate critical thinking around interactive digital storytelling, online media production, and the social and cultural media environment
- Learn how to develop linear and nonlinear digital stories
Admission Requirements
None
Live Online Students
Ashton College uses web conferencing tools for conducting online classes and online learning management systems for managing resources, assignments, and grades. These tools help instructors and students connect live online as well as asynchronously. The basic requirements for online learning include a computer, webcam, speakers, and a microphone or a headset and headphones, along with a reliable internet connection. Though online learning can be pursued using smartphones and tablets, the use of laptops or desktop computers is encouraged for an enhanced learning experience.
This program was reviewed and approved by the Registrar of the Private Training Institutions Branch of the Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training.
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