E-tutor Advisor; Information Literacy Librarian

The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand; Wintec (Waikato Institute of Technology)

Presentation

Stories permeate our lives and more importantly the communities in which we are involved. This presentation session will briefly explore the role of story in learning and in its modern expression of digital storytelling.

Following the presentation of some digital story exemplars, a conversation will be facilitated to discuss some of the issues surrounding the use of digital storytelling in learning. Participants will also be given access to a digital storytelling resource website developed by the facilitators of this conversation. They hope that this site will contribute to the development of a NZ digital storytelling community.

http://ako.net.nz/ lms/

Marica Ševelj is an E-Tutor Advisor in the E-Learning Office at The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand. Her role involves working with staff as they come to terms with the challenges of incorporating e-learning into their practice as distance educators. She is passionate about blogging, digital storytelling and other forms of online communication which connect people. You can find out more about her here http://marica.wikispaces.com/.

Stephen Harlow is currently Information Literacy Librarian at the Waikato Institute of Technology, having previously worked as an instructional designer and a secondary school teacher. He trained as a facilitator of the digital storytelling process with digital storytelling co-creator Joe Lambert in San Francisco. Stephen is a partner in Storyboards http://www.storyboards.org.nz.
Marica and Stephen met in 2004 when they were both selected as Flexible Learning Leaders in New Zealand. They sat next to each another at the Induction Workshop and very quickly found themselves engaged in sharing stories. For starters they discovered that they were both ex-chemistry teachers! Their joint love of stories and blogging has kept them connected as colleagues and friends ever since.

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