Jak Radice School of Health Studies / CED Maureen Readle Centre for Educational Development (CED)

1. Tales from the digital classroom: engaging staff with digital stories to enhance learning and teaching Jak RadiceSchool of Health Studies / CED Maureen ReadleCentre for Educational Development (CED) Dr Caroline PlewsSchool of Health Studies

2. Overview • Why use digital stories? • Creating the digital stories • Digital storytelling examples • Discussion • Activity • Plenary

3. Caroline Plews – the Lecturer’s viewpoint Caroline Plews – the Lecturer’s viewpoint

4. Summary Our search for a cost effective methodology has resulted in strengthening the collaboration between patients, teachers and learning technologists.

5. Maureen Readle – the Learning Technologist viewpoint Maureen Readle – the Learning Technologist’s viewpoint

6. Creating the digital story v1 Training staff • Aim: • Train academic staff to create movies • Strengths: • Relationship between academic and service user • Issues: • IT skills • Time • Software used: • PhotoStory 3 • Audacity

7. Creating the digital story v2a Recording video • Aim: • To video service users • Strengths: • Quicker to produce content • Issues: • Learning to use camera and editing software • Time • Software used: • iMovie • Pinnacle VideoSpin

8. Creating the digital story v2b Record Academic & Patient Review Academic & Learning Technologist Transcribe Administrator Partnership • Aim: • To work with academic staff to create movies • Strengths: • Academic released from production • Academic drives content • Learning technologist provide production / creativity skills • Issues: • IT skills • Time • Software used: • PhotoStory 3 • Audacity • iMovie • Pinnacle VideoSpin Create Learning Technologist Select Academic

9. Example 1 – audio only Linda’s story: the effect of bipolar disorder on her family (audio clip)

10. Example 1 – audio + images

11. Example 2 – video

12. The student experience The great majority of students regarded listening to a service user as providing knowledge additional to that which they might gain from text books. Evaluation summary “You can only guess what is feels like from a book but when someone can tell you because they experience it, it then sinks in better to understand and appreciate.” “More understanding and a lot of knowledge was gained through Susan’s personal experience.” “Had time to understand experience from patients’ perspective because we are ‘outside’ of clinical setting so can reflect on what we have learned.” “The personal stories are very interesting.” “Very much more interesting and thought provoking than reading in a text book”. “Hearing it from a service user makes all the theory we learn make sense.”

13. Discussion: • Discussion: • Value of digital stories for staff and students • Audio file vs Movie • Value of digital storytelling to the learner • Digital storytelling in other subjects • Client voice in the classroom 10 mins

14. Activity: Activity: Creating a storyboard • Create a storyboard from a short transcript (work in pairs) • How would you illustrate your story? 10 mins

15. Plenary: Plenary: How might you use digital storytelling in your subject? Put your ideas onto a post-it and add it to the post-it wall