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      What is Digital Storytelling?

      Podcasting and Video Stories Virtual Intensive

      October 21 - November 11, 2020

      No matter the trendiest social platform, the ability to craft and communicate a cohesive digital narrative – about yourself, a company, a passion project – is a skill that employers increasingly seek when hiring recent college graduates. Emerging technologies, coupled with digital media creation and management skills, are leading to new professions and driving social justice movements and public awareness. Through video and audio production and dissemination, people are making a living by telling their own story and the stories of others.

      You already may know how to use a digital storytelling tool, but have you learned how to craft your narrative and share it with an audience? This workshop will give you the skills and critical perspectives to create digital narratives, building your Digital Communication competencies. You will also have an opportunity to meet alumnae/i and other professionals and learn how these competencies relate to their work across a range of professional fields.

      The Podcasting and Video Stories Intensive is a four-week workshop. In our first two weeks we will focus on understanding digital narratives and producing a podcast using Audacity, and in weeks 3 and 4 we will continue to hone our storytelling skills and learn videomaking with WeVideo. Our final meeting will include a panel discussion by alumnae/I who work in social and broadcast media, as well as a showcase of digital narratives created by the workshop participants.

    • Announcements Forum
    • How to Access LinkedIn Learning Tutorials URL
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    Pre-Workshop Assignment - Complete BEFORE Wednesday, Oct. 21

    • WATCH: LinkedIn Learning Tutorial--Producing Podcasts (1h42m) URL
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      Learning objectives

      • Identifying your audience
      • Choosing a title, format, and length
      • Buying recording equipment and software
      • Recording and editing your podcast
      • Mastering your podcast episodes for distribution
      • Publishing your podcast
      • Measuring your audience
      • Promoting and marketing your podcast

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    Wednesday, October 21

    • WATCH: Zoom Recording Passcode: ww1^XLG& URL
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      Passcode: ww1^XLG&

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      Homework:

    • REVIEW: Introduction to Narratives and Digital Storytelling powerpoint File PPTX
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      676.1 KB · Uploaded 10/20/20, 09:17
    • Storytelling Canvas: Temporal Approach File DOCX
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      56.8 KB · Uploaded 10/18/20, 15:25
    • Storytelling Canvas: Spatial/Visual Approach File DOCX
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      141.6 KB · Uploaded 10/18/20, 15:28
    • Story Canvas: Journalistic Approach File PDF
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      224.2 KB · Uploaded 10/18/20, 15:41
    • ENGAGE: Thinking Through Digital Narratives by Maria Ocando Finol URL
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    • "Still" by Anisa Ibrahim URL
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    • WRITE: Forum--Story Reflections
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      View the “ENGAGE” slides linked above, watching Anisa Ibrahim’s “Still” when prompted.  Post your reflections on the video's narrative composition in the Moodle forum.  Alternatively, you can attach a story canvas for “Still” to evaluate the design and effect of its story.

    • EXPLORE: Podcasting 101 - Tips and Resources URL
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    • WATCH: Haverford Podcasting Class (43m) File MP4
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      34.2 MB · Uploaded 01/13/21, 16:45
    • WATCH: LinkedIn Learning Tutorial--Learning Audacity (1h42m) URL
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      Learning objectives

      • Downloading and installing Audacity
      • Importing audio
      • Setting up hardware to record
      • Recording two tracks simultaneously
      • Basic editing and common effects
      • Splitting clips
      • Exporting a project
      • Inserting silence
      • Bleeping unwanted words and sounds

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      NOTE: Please have access to Audacity for next Wednesday's session.  Audacity is installed on all Bryn Mawr-owned computers, but if you are using your own laptop, you will need to download Audacity and an MP3 LAME encoder file, if you wish to save files in this format.  To install Audacity, go to http://www.audacityteam.org/ and click the Download button, then launch the installer and follow the prompts.

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      Audacity Project Window

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    Wednesday, October 28

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    Wednesday, November 4

    • MEET: Zoom session at 12:30-1:30 URL
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    • REVIEW: Introduction to WeVideo powerpoint File PPTX
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      3.2 MB · Uploaded 11/4/20, 11:41
    • PRACTICE: Self-Paced WeVideo Tutorial File PDF
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    • READ: Captioning File PDF
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      1.2 MB · Uploaded 10/19/20, 13:51
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      PREPARE: a podcast or video story and share it on the forum.  
    • POST: Your audio or video file here. Forum
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    Wednesday, November 11: Showcase of Works-in-Progress and Alumnae Panel

    • MEET: Zoom session at 12:30-2:00 URL
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      Cancelled due to student strike.

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      Alumnae Panelists:

      Dominique Johnson, Class of 1999

      Dominique Johnson is an organizational and strategic social impact consultant to nonprofits and startups serving the public good. With extensive experience focusing on educational, music/arts, and public media organizations, Dominique works with nonprofits to build greater understanding of the complex issues they face, facilitates improvements to internal operations, and creates new digital solutions so they continue to thrive.

      As a consultant with 1dr labs, Dominique designs and fosters social impact communications for nonprofits that help them tell their story and create long-lasting impacts in the communities they serve. Dominique is an effective communications strategist and a passionate communicator invested in strengthening mission-driven social impact startups, social justice nonprofit organizations, and civic leadership.

      Sara Karpinski, Class of 2009

       As a Park Ranger and Interpreter at National Park Service, each year Sara Karpinski supports more than 4 million visitors from around the world at Independence National Historical Park, home of Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell.  In this position, she facilitates connections between the park's historic resources and diverse visitor groups.  Sara highlights women's struggle for equal rights in our history through women's history month programming, including first person portrayals and formal presentations, and she also presents formal interpretive programs on a variety of other topics, from the election of 1796 to the history of the National Park Service.  In addition, Sara develops distance learning programs to connect schools throughout the country to park stories and resources.

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      Examples of Their Work:
    • LISTEN: The Rose Garden of Light by Cuatro Puntos & Ensemble Zohra (promotional interview) URL
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      Kevin Bishop, Founder and co-Executive Director of Cuatro Puntos, discusses their latest project, The Rosegarden of Light, with GenXClassical's Dominique Johnson. He describes how being inspired by the young musicians of Ensemble Zohra at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music led to an innovative collaboration with them and English composer Sadie Harrison. The result: the voices of these courageous young musicians are now being heard around the world.

    • LISTEN: You Will Hear Me (Audio Story) URL
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      Black opera singers have always contributed to the art form. In this Come As You Are we highlight their performances, featuring famous opera star Leontyne Price and others.

    • LISTEN: The Golden Record (Audio Story) URL
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      Come As You Are asked listeners what classical music they would want to include on a new Golden Record, travelling out to the stars to represent humanity. Mixing Carl Sagan and NASA's original classical music selections - Beethoven, Mozart and a lot of Bach - with this listener playlist, host Dominique Johnson weaves the stories of this epic interstellar journey in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Voyager Missions and the original Golden Record. This program is offered on PRX in an edited format suitable for any geographic location.

    • WATCH: At Home with a National Park Service Ranger: Protesting at Independence Hall, A Time Honored Tradition URL
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      In our latest "At Home" video, National Park Service Rangers Rick Starr, Larry McClenney, Sara Karpinski and Lily Coryell present the history of protests at Independence Hall throughout the centuries. Visit Philly National Constitution Center Museum of the American Revolution Smithsonian City of Philadelphia Government U.S. Department of the Interior Philadelphia Gay News Philadelphia Gay Pride Parade Frederick Douglass National Historic Site Stonewall National Monument

    • WATCH: At Home with a National Park Service Ranger: Raising Money for the Women's Suffrage Movement URL
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      In this week's "At Home" video series, we will be focusing on #WomensHistory and the #19thAmendment! Today's video features National Park Service Ranger Sara Karpinksi talking about the fundraising efforts by the Women's Suffrage Movement. The Women's Suffrage Movement, like other political movements, cost an enormous amount of money. In addition to direct donations, they had to come up with creative ways to get funding, but also get support to spread their message. They had to have something we would call today, "on brand" but also sell items that people wanted to purchase. As part of these fundraising efforts, the suffragists sold cookbooks to counter the anti-suffragists argument that if women would get the right to vote, they would be neglecting their duties at home. 

    • WATCH: Ringing In 100 Years of Votes for Women URL
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      Grab a noisemaker - a bell, pots and spoons, or your favorite audio app - and join us on Facebook Live for the special event, "Ringing In 100 Years of Votes for Women." The event will include an opportunity to see the Women's Liberty Bell, also known as the Justice Bell. Park rangers will share stories of how the Justice Bell traveled with it's clapper chained silent until women got the vote, and its unchaining on Independence Square 100 year ago on this day. Costumed actresses portraying Frances Harper, Alice Paul, and Dora Lewis will speak about their participation in the suffrage movement.