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digital storytelling for immigrants

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Friday, January 6, 2017
10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Location: Andersen Library 120A, West Bank, Twin Cities Campus
Registration is encouraged but not required.

This workshop will prepare instructors to teach with the Immigrant Stories digital storytelling project and to train their students to use the project’s story-making website.

Immigrant Stories is a groundbreaking storytelling and archiving project run by the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC).

Immigrant Stories helps people tell, share, and preserve personal or family stories about immigration by creating digital stories: 3-5 minute videos made from a combination of images, text, and audio. Immigrant Stories uses a free website that guides students through the progress of making an original video from start to finish, from scripting writing through video editing. Participants are invited to share their stories with the project for preservation in the IHRC Archives. Learn more about Immigrant Stories.

About the IHRC:
Founded in 1965, the Immigration History Research Center (IHRC) and its partner, the IHRC Archives, are North America’s oldest and largest interdisciplinary research center and archives devoted to preserving and understanding immigrant and refugee life.

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more on digital storytelling in the IMS blog
http://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=digital+storytelling

Migrant Language Learners and Digital Storytelling

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Transnational Identity and Migrant Language Learners: The Promise of Digital Storytelling

Ron Darvin, Bonny Norton

http://em.journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/em/article/view/56

Abstract

As technology enables migrant learners to maintain multi-stranded connections with their countries of origin and settlement, they engage with the world with transnational identities that negotiate a complex network of values, ideologies, and cultures. How teachers and peers recognize that migrants come with specific histories, knowledges and competencies shapes migrant learners’ investment in learning. By building on their transnational literacies, the language learning classroom can be a Third Space which acknowledges and affirms their fluid, multidimensional identities. Digital storytelling, by allowing them to share their personal histories, their stories of migration and assimilation, and the material conditions of their lived experiences, holds great potential for enabling migrant learners to be fully invested in their transnational identities and to claim their right to speak.