Showing posts with label digital storytelling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital storytelling. Show all posts
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
Track A: Digital Storytelling
TRACK A – Using Digital Storytelling to Enhance Student Skills in Thinking About Quality Improvement in Public and Community Services
Trish Hafford-Letchfield and Asanka Dayananda’s well-attended workshop on digital storytelling proved stimulating, enjoyable and a really hands-on experience. Trish and Asanka have developed digital storytelling as an assessment tool on the Service Development and Quality Improvement module – attended by a range of professionals in public and community services as part of their CPD. The brief includes ‘creativity’ as well as ‘enhancing skills in communication technology’ so Trish ditched the conventional essay format for the more exciting and innovative ‘digital story’.
Students are encouraged to take one aspect of an issue to do with improving public services and, using images, music and voiceover, to create a resource for others to access. Unsurprisingly, the students actually look forward to carrying out their assessment, just as we enjoyed the practical workshop.
The course is delivered and structured through OASISplus, using weekly online activities and discussion boards. Students download the free ‘Photo Story 3’ software and, with supported sessions in the lab, create their own digital stories.
After looking at some impressive examples, we split into groups and tried to storyboard a short video. Unfortunately time ran out but it was abundantly clear what a creative, motivational and useful tool this was – albeit with some ethical and copyright issues to iron out with respect to photos and video clips.
Celia Cozens
Centre for Learning and Teaching Enhancement
Monday, 27 June 2011
Presenter profile - Track A: Trish Hafford-Letchfield, Asanka Dayananda
Asanka Dayananda: Using Digital Storytelling to Enhance Student Skills in Thinking about Quality Improvement in Public and Community Services
Digital Storytelling
As part of the summative assessment of the Service Development and Quality Improvement module, students were asked submit a digital story. Find out how students were guided through online activities and lab sessions to create their digital story. We will share our experience of using this method of e-assessment, and will feedback on student impressions and the hurdles we had to overcome.
In this hands on workshop you have an opportunity to plan and create your own digital story.
Profile
Asanka Dayananda, Educational Developer, Centre for Learning and Teaching Enhancement, Middlesex University
As part of her role, Asanka is involved in looking at ways of encouraging Educators to consider the benefits offered by e-learning practices. This usually involves examining teaching, learning and assessment strategies employed for appropriateness of alternative online practices that could enhance and improve the student learning experience. Involvement in recommendations often requires supporting staff through five stages; staff training, planning implementation in teaching, delivery to students, dealing with any issues that arise and finally evaluating practice, process and student experience.
Delivering experiential knowledge and skills online is one of Asanka’s current interests. This has given rise to an online staff development course that gives lecturers an opportunity to experience a number of alternative online teaching practices. The online course runs over three weeks and takes around 5 hours to complete. Through hands on experience of both teaching and learning perspectives, it gives educators a taste of reusable learning objects, e-assessment and feedback, online discussions, e-workbooks, e-reflections and audio feedback. Each alternative approach is compared to traditional practice, and learning is encouraged through hands on experience. The course is embedded with walk through video demonstrations, research findings, discussions, reflections, planning exercises and guided activities. The course targets programme teams in collaborative online learning. It is hoped that this method will encourage non-enthusiasts to engage in staff development and also seeks to increase participation by utilising the flexibility afforded by anytime, anywhere online learning.
Asanka's co-presenter: Trish Hafford-Letchfield
Digital Storytelling
As part of the summative assessment of the Service Development and Quality Improvement module, students were asked submit a digital story. Find out how students were guided through online activities and lab sessions to create their digital story. We will share our experience of using this method of e-assessment, and will feedback on student impressions and the hurdles we had to overcome.
In this hands on workshop you have an opportunity to plan and create your own digital story.
Profile
Asanka Dayananda, Educational Developer, Centre for Learning and Teaching Enhancement, Middlesex University
As part of her role, Asanka is involved in looking at ways of encouraging Educators to consider the benefits offered by e-learning practices. This usually involves examining teaching, learning and assessment strategies employed for appropriateness of alternative online practices that could enhance and improve the student learning experience. Involvement in recommendations often requires supporting staff through five stages; staff training, planning implementation in teaching, delivery to students, dealing with any issues that arise and finally evaluating practice, process and student experience.
Delivering experiential knowledge and skills online is one of Asanka’s current interests. This has given rise to an online staff development course that gives lecturers an opportunity to experience a number of alternative online teaching practices. The online course runs over three weeks and takes around 5 hours to complete. Through hands on experience of both teaching and learning perspectives, it gives educators a taste of reusable learning objects, e-assessment and feedback, online discussions, e-workbooks, e-reflections and audio feedback. Each alternative approach is compared to traditional practice, and learning is encouraged through hands on experience. The course is embedded with walk through video demonstrations, research findings, discussions, reflections, planning exercises and guided activities. The course targets programme teams in collaborative online learning. It is hoped that this method will encourage non-enthusiasts to engage in staff development and also seeks to increase participation by utilising the flexibility afforded by anytime, anywhere online learning.
Asanka's co-presenter: Trish Hafford-Letchfield
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Presenter profile - Track A: Trish Hafford-Letchfield, Asanka Dayananda
Trish Hafford-Letchfield: Using Digital Storytelling to Enhance Student Skills in Thinking about Quality Improvement in Public and Community Services
Trish is a senior lecturer for inter-professional learning within the Department of Mental Health and Social Work in the School of Health and Social Sciences. Trish initially qualified as a nurse then social worker and following a long career in social work, spent her last ten years managing services for older people within a local authority. Her last post before academia was as an organisational learning and development manager where she was responsible for workforce development and developing learning partnerships in South London. Trish joined Middlesex University in September 2008 having been at London South Bank for a number of years. Trish became a Teaching Fellow in 2010. She has been active in Age Concern Greenwich since 2003 as a Trustee, and in the Association for Education and Ageing. Trish also plays the violin in an amateur orchestra and this is her absolute favourite pastime!
Trish has a variety of interests connected to learning and teaching. Her main subject area is leadership, management and organisational development and she is an active management mentor in the voluntary sector. She has written a number of key textbooks in this area. Her most recent was 'Social Care Management: Strategy and Business Planning' with Jessica Kingsley in 2010. Trish also has expertise in adult social care, particularly in the area of safeguarding and has a special interest in helping students to work more holistically with older people. She is also very active in promoting issues of sexuality and sexual identity in learning and teaching and has again published quite widely on these topics in relation to widening participation. In 2011, she co-edited a book with Priscilla Dunk-West 'Sexual Identities and Sexuality in Social Work: Research and Reflections from Women in the Field' published by Ashgate Press.
Within public and community services, the need to find ways of engaging the community and providing quality information is an essential skill. It seemed appropriate to assess students capacity for designing and using technology to improve the ways they might develop aspects of information about their services. These are also linked to the concept of quality and service improvement within the module, by adding another dimension of how these issues are perceived and received. Teaching students to use just one small aspect of technology such as digital storytelling was however challenging as well as enabling such skills to be assessed alongside more traditional methods of assessment. Our workshop aims to share some of our early experiences with you so far in our teaching and assessing of students skills in using the technologies associated with digital storytelling. We have designed a series of online teaching activities to encourage an incremental approach to students learning towards assessment. You will be given the opportunity to try out digital story telling including creating a storyboard and using the software. Hopefully this may stimulate your own interest in how digital story telling could fit with your own assessment methods.
Trish is particularly interested in using the arts and technologies to improve learning and teaching. She has experimented with music making, comedy, drama and literature which she believes can promote deeper learning, particularly with managers in health and social care where the contexts may be very challenging and demanding. She has published some of the outcomes of these methods using small scale evaluation and impact studies. Trish recently completed a Doctorate exploring the lifelong learning of older people using social care services focussing on the knowledge and skills that older people need to direct their own care.
A recommended resource related to the session is RUDE Old People: A digital resource exploring sexuality in older people. This was made through a series of two one day workshops with social work students which were filmed and edited using digital story software. These are reusable learning objects that can be used in learning and teaching: http://www.1stframework.org/rude.asp
With regards to e-Assessment, Trish recommends that students be given an opportunity to practice uploading their work before the real thing. Don't be too prescriptive and allow students to be creative. Take some risks and refine as you go along. Provide opportunities to develop the skills needed in an incremental way throughout your module.
Trish is a senior lecturer for inter-professional learning within the Department of Mental Health and Social Work in the School of Health and Social Sciences. Trish initially qualified as a nurse then social worker and following a long career in social work, spent her last ten years managing services for older people within a local authority. Her last post before academia was as an organisational learning and development manager where she was responsible for workforce development and developing learning partnerships in South London. Trish joined Middlesex University in September 2008 having been at London South Bank for a number of years. Trish became a Teaching Fellow in 2010. She has been active in Age Concern Greenwich since 2003 as a Trustee, and in the Association for Education and Ageing. Trish also plays the violin in an amateur orchestra and this is her absolute favourite pastime!
 |
| Trish Hafford-Letchfield |
Within public and community services, the need to find ways of engaging the community and providing quality information is an essential skill. It seemed appropriate to assess students capacity for designing and using technology to improve the ways they might develop aspects of information about their services. These are also linked to the concept of quality and service improvement within the module, by adding another dimension of how these issues are perceived and received. Teaching students to use just one small aspect of technology such as digital storytelling was however challenging as well as enabling such skills to be assessed alongside more traditional methods of assessment. Our workshop aims to share some of our early experiences with you so far in our teaching and assessing of students skills in using the technologies associated with digital storytelling. We have designed a series of online teaching activities to encourage an incremental approach to students learning towards assessment. You will be given the opportunity to try out digital story telling including creating a storyboard and using the software. Hopefully this may stimulate your own interest in how digital story telling could fit with your own assessment methods.
Trish is particularly interested in using the arts and technologies to improve learning and teaching. She has experimented with music making, comedy, drama and literature which she believes can promote deeper learning, particularly with managers in health and social care where the contexts may be very challenging and demanding. She has published some of the outcomes of these methods using small scale evaluation and impact studies. Trish recently completed a Doctorate exploring the lifelong learning of older people using social care services focussing on the knowledge and skills that older people need to direct their own care.
A recommended resource related to the session is RUDE Old People: A digital resource exploring sexuality in older people. This was made through a series of two one day workshops with social work students which were filmed and edited using digital story software. These are reusable learning objects that can be used in learning and teaching: http://www.1stframework.org/rude.asp
With regards to e-Assessment, Trish recommends that students be given an opportunity to practice uploading their work before the real thing. Don't be too prescriptive and allow students to be creative. Take some risks and refine as you go along. Provide opportunities to develop the skills needed in an incremental way throughout your module.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)