Date: Wednesday, June 3
Time: 9:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Location: Mitchell Auditorium
Digital Storytelling to Scholarly Storytelling from Summer Faculty Institute 2015
Alongside strong writing and speaking skills, crafting media messages represents an essential literacy helping students share their stories with a global audience. As media projects continue to increase in a range of academic areas, digital storytelling provides a common set of strategies and skills on which to build. Dr. Kyle Dickson will describe how faculty at Abilene Christian University paired training in media production with digital storytelling in courses from composition and journalism to psychology and math.
Kyle Dickson, Abilene Christian University
Kyle Dickson directs the AT&T Learning Studio at Abilene Christian University, enabling students and faculty to craft media messages for a global audience. Since 2005, he has worked with the Adams Center for Teaching and Learning to support innovative faculty in podcasting, course blogging, and mobile learning. In 2011, he became director of the Learning Studio, part collaborative learning space, part media production sandbox. Since 1999, Kyle has sought to blur the edges of the classroom in residential, online, and study abroad courses. He developed inter-disciplinary courses for the ACU in Oxford and Summer Online programs as well as the national college curriculum for the This I Believe series on NPR. As associate professor of English, he regularly teaches undergraduate, graduate and honors courses in British literature, drama, satire, film, and media production.