Title: Tell Me Your Story: Digital Storytelling as a Teaching and Communication Tool
Stream: Learning Practices in Art & Design Education
Presentation Type: Live-Stream Presentation
Authors:
Silvina Felix, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Violeta Clemente, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Abstract:
The paper describes an exploratory study focused on the use of Digital Storytelling (DS) as a tool for design students to communicate their self-reflection process and reveal their soft skills to potential employers. Product design students worked on their narrative for four weeks in practical classes during a course concerned with visual communication techniques under the supervision of a communication design professor and a researcher from the Education field. Digital Storytelling is widely recognise in the literature, as an innovative learning strategy supported by practical cases with implementation in classrooms. Based on the premise that DS can be used as a vehicle to help students to “think about your own identity”, the creative process of finding students’ own personal narrative led them to reflect about themselves and about their life experiences. Students used digital technologies and computer software as Movie Maker or Adobe Photoshop to create individual short films and communicate autobiographical narratives with original images and audio where the narrator is the story’s protagonist. As an outcome, students narratives focused on remarkable personal life experiences or academic involvements, some of them showing a significant emotional charge, others trying to highlight singular characteristics which may be appreciated and valued by a future employer.
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