AAVV - Appraising Digital Storytelling across Educational Contexts

Appraising Digital Storytelling across Educational Contexts

Appraising Digital Storytelling across Educational Contexts

CARMEN GREGORI-SIGNES AND ANNA M. BRÍGIDO-CORACHÁN, EDS.

UNIVERSITATDEVALÈNCIA

2014

ENGLISH IN THE WORLD SERIES

GENERAL EDITOR

Antonia Sánchez Macarro

Universitat de València, Spain

ADVISORY EDITORIAL BOARD

Professor Enrique Bernárdez

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Professor Anne Burns

Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Professor Angela Downing

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Dr Martin Hewings

University of Birmingham, Great Britain

Professor Ken Hyland

City University of Hong Kong, China

Professor James Lantolf

Penn State University, Pennsylvania, USA

Professor Michael McCarthy

University of Nottingham, Great Britain

Professor Eija Ventola

University of Helsinki, Findland

© The authors © 2014 by the Universitat de València

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Notes on Contributors

ANNA M. BRÍGIDO-CORACHÁN(PhD New York University – University of Valencia) is a full-time lecturer at the University of Valencia and a member of the cross-disciplinary research group “Culture and Development”. Her academic interests include minority literatures and cultures in the Anglophone world, audiovisual languages and educational ICTs, with a special research focus on contemporary indigenous literature and history of the Americas and on digital storytelling.

MARK DUNFORDis an academic from the Faculty of Arts at the University of Brighton and a Director of Digitales, a research based company specialising in Digital Storytelling hosted at Goldsmiths College University of London. Digitales has overseen the successful delivery of many Digital Storytelling projects since it was first established in 2005. Mark is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts.

CARMEN GREGORI-SIGNESis a full-time lecturer at the University of Valencia and a member of EDiSo (Studies in Discourse and Society). Her research fields include language learning, discourse analysis and corpus linguistics and more specifically the study of language use in fictional and non-fictional television discourse. Her current research focuses on computer assisted multimodal discourse analysis of fictional television series with the intention of delving into the complex relationships between media representations, society and our place in it.

KRISTIN HOLTE HAUGis associate professor at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Education and International Studies. She teaches pedagogy and ICT & learning at the Early Years Teacher Program. Her research topics are Workplace-based studies and ICT & learning, with a special interest in Digital Storytelling as a tool for documentation and reflection in higher education. She has published books and articles on these topics.

GRETE JAMISSENis associate professor at the Multimedia Section of Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences. In 2006 she launched an interfaculty Digital Storytelling (DS) project resulting in a number of study programs implementing digital storytelling for learning and reflection. Other research topics are ICT and learning, experience based learning and action research. She coedited the first Norwegian book on Digital Storytelling and learning (2012).

JOE LAMBERTfounded the Center for Digital Storytelling (formerly the San Francisco Digital Media Center) in 1994, with wife Nina Mullen and colleague Dana Atchley. Together they developed a unique computer training and arts program that today is known as the Standard Digital Storytelling Workshop. Since then, Joe has traveled the world to spread the practice of digital storytelling and has authored and produced curricula in many contexts, including the Digital Storytelling Cookbook , the principle manual for the workshop process, and Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives , Creating Community.

LINA LEE(Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin) is professor of Spanish at the University of New Hampshire where she teaches courses in second language acquisition, foreign language methodology and applied linguistics. She has conducted research and published articles on language pedagogy, computer-mediated communication, online feedback and discourse analysis. She has also designed online activities to accompany Spanish language textbooks.

IRENA MAUREENis a lecturer in the Educational Technology Department at State University of Surabaya, Indonesia. After being introduced to Digital Storytelling in a short course at the University of Sydney Australia in 2009, she started to implement it in her classes for her studies. She also keeps a blog about digital storytelling in Bahasa Indonesia and is in charge of EdCamp-Indonesia, a community discussion on Education. Her current research focuses on the uses of Digital storytelling in Higher Education.

SARA MCNEILis an associate professor and program coordinator of the Learning, Design and Technology graduate program at the University of Houston. She teaches courses in instructional design, the collaborative design and development of multimedia and the visual representation of information. She researches, publishes and presents about emerging technologies in educational environments and is a consultant to schools concerning 21st century technologies.

ANH NGUYENis currently an instructor at Cornerstone College, Vancouver. She is also collaborating with the Faculty of Education of Simon Fraser University, Canada in a four-year research on the effects of digital technology on the socio-emotional life of older adults. Anh Nguyen holds Master’s degrees in Education and Arts from the University of Sydney and Eastern Michigan University, as well as a doctorate in Education with an emphasis on Instructional Technology from the University of Houston. Her research interests include instructional technology, curriculum design, language teaching and digital literacy.

DOLORS PALAU SAMPIOis a full-time lecturer of Journalism in the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication at the University of Valencia. Her teaching and research deal with writing, journalistic styles and digital storytelling. She worked for nine years as a journalist at Levante-EMV , a regional newspaper, and has been a visiting scholar at universities in the UK, France, Germany and Chile.

MARGARITA RAMÍREZ LOYAis a full-time ESL instructor at Cochise College in Douglas, Arizona. Her passion for teaching in non-traditional settings has led her to create learning projects that are focused on community involvement and participation. To date, she has co-authored with her ESL students two books from the We Are Stories series that capture and preserve the stories of the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands community.

BERNARD ROBINis an associate professor of Learning, Design and Technology at the University of Houston. He is an internationally recognized leader in the educational uses of digital storytelling and has been teaching courses, conducting workshops, writing articles, and supervising graduate student research on the educational uses of digital storytelling for over a decade.

JOSÉ LUIS RODRZÍGUEZ ILLERAis a professor in the Faculty of Pedagogy at the University of Barcelona. He has been working on the effects of digital technology in society for the last 30 years with a focus on new forms of digital literacies and narratives. He serves as editor of the journal Digital Education Review and supervises doctoral research.