Unit 1: Be­lief — Story — Oral­ity
Project: Dig­i­tal Sto­ry­telling video

• up­com­ing: Ex­er­cise 1 (due F 29-Jan)

week 3

M 25-Jan  Dis­cuss: dig­i­tal nar­ra­tive se­lec­tions from
This I Be­lieve and Cen­ter for Dig­i­tal Sto­ry­telling (choose one from each, min­i­mum)

• Fo­cus: con­ven­tions of nar­ra­tive, ob­served in ex­am­ples
  —ideas for Ex­er­cise and for com­pos­ing

W 27-Jan Dis­cuss: ex­cerpt from The New Dig­i­tal Sto­ry­telling by Alexan­der (2011) PDF in D2L

• fo­cus: me­dia + genre con­ven­tions, tech­niques, choices

Watch: Shipka, “On the Process of Com­pos­ing Other People’s Lives” En­cul­tur­a­tion 2012 

F 29-Jan  Due: Ex­er­cise 1 (500 words, 10 points) — In­struc­tions Page

• Con­ven­tions of Nar­ra­tive & Be­lief (Dig­i­tal Sto­ry­telling Project warm-up)
• Fo­cus: ideas & lessons iden­ti­fied from ana­lyzed sto­ry se­lected + prospec­tive tech­niques for ap­pli­ca­tion

*Look­ing ahead (over week­end): choose non­fic­tion story for video (out­line for work­shop)
+ reg­is­ter for We­V­ideo

Re­source: Cen­ter for Dig­i­tal Sto­ry­telling (2010) “Script­ing” & “Sto­ry­board­ing” ex­cerpts (PDF in D2L)