Concluding thoughts and summary of the textbook "Digital Storytelling: Capturing Lives, Creating Community" 5th edition by Joe Lambert with Brooke Hessler.
Chapter 13:
Forms of storytelling can be found anywhere and everywhere. This is something this chapter emphasizes as it explores the various ways stories can be told regardless of industry, demographics, class, etc. What I found more interesting was the section on journalism, which is a field I have the most experience with. How one approaches a story and goes about telling it is compelling.
Chapter 14:
In this interview with Amy Hill, director of Silence Speaks, she discusses how the initiative uses digital storytelling to encourage and help survivors of trauma heal. By placing participants in a safe space, it allows them to fully express themselves without fear of being judged. The stories produced are powerful and realistic.
Chapter 15:
Community outreach health worker Laura Revels opens up in the interview about how storytelling helps oneself. Additionally, she talks about the importance of health education for Alaska’s Native American population. She talks of how storytelling helps one to find the strengths in their struggle rather than focus on a single defeat.
Chapter 16:
When one tells their story, it has the ability to spark healing. In this interview with Dr. Pip Hardy and Tony Sumner of the Patient Voices program within Pilgrim Projects discuss this further. While the start of the program was based on other goals, it turned into something that allows for participants to better understand the experiences they have gone through.
Chapter 17:
The last chapter features an interview with Dr. Brooke Hessler. Within the interview, Dr. Hessler talks of how digital storytelling has evolved within the classroom. Additionally, Dr. Hessler expresses how students are able to not just learn more about who they are as individuals, but also how storytelling can open their eyes to the greater world around them.
No comments:
Post a Comment