Lights, Camera, Action: Digital Storytelling in Healthcare

The Goals of this presentation are to: 1. Describe the steps in preparing an assignment of digital storytelling 2. Demonstrate the necessary tools to ensure student success. 3. Review a variety of evaluation methods 4. Illustrate some examples of final student products 5. Discuss the challenges and solutions in working with online graduate students. Many students who have never completed a digital media project may feel overwhelmed with the thoughts of learning new content as well technology. Strategies to help students overcome their fears will be discussed. Designing an assignment that facilitates instructor evaluation of knowledge gained from the content of the course is key. This presentation will give you examples and also provide an opportunity for the audience to share examples of assignments. Tools that can be used for making a digital product will be reviewed along with the website of free products that can be easily downloaded for student use. Then solutions to the storage of the final products will be discussed. A number of evaluation rubric are available for faculty, however, we will discuss the ones we have chosen and provide the rational behind choosing a simple format for grading. The unexpected challenges will be presented along with successful solutions. Lastly, some of the final student products will be shared with the audience. These products are 3-4 minutes long and provide some examples from our classes which exemplify various levels of expertise.