Digital storytelling - Richard Beggs

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Digital storytelling »Richard Beggs

› Instructional Design Consultant, Ulster University

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How did it start?»Connect More 2015

› Dragons and butterflies› Chris Thomson session last June

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Train the trainer»Colette Murphy arranged training

› Chris Thomson workshop› 2 day + webinars

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Pilot»Research/Teaching Nexus»Dr Maire Braniff»Created first digital story ‘NI is at peace’»Success

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Rollout - Ulster»First session booked out in 20 minutes»Ran 3 workshops to meet demand»Waiting list»Assisted by Gemma McFaul (placement student)

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Workshop»Across faculties, PhD candidates

› and central departments

»Used for dissemination of research and innovative teaching practice, conference presentations introductions

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Feedback very positive»“Best training I have had at Ulster in 20 years”»“The Digital Storytelling sessions were by far the

most useful I have undertaken during my time at Ulster “

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Inspired others»Maire Braniff showed her story to a research

partner, PSNI»She is now working on a suite of digital stories with them

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Post Grad certificate»Colette Murphy asked me to teach digital

storytellingon an Ulster digital learning module at SRC

»30% of module»FCE – Postgrad certificate in Learning Technology

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Ripple effect»This has inspired Dr Liz Finnigan (SRC) to use it

to recruit students for English and History degrees, and have doubled their applications for this period (June) year on year.

»I have delivered webinars to Ulster and SRC on sourcingopen content - creative commons.

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SRC»The school management have added digital

stories to their HE recruitment toolkit»Liz is also investigating using it for student’s

dissertation proposals

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Writer’s festival SRC»Presented a ‘How to’ to  English undergraduates

at SRC Writers Festival on 17 June

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Student generated content»I am working with social work (Denise

MacDermott) and journalism staff (Ciara Chambers) in Ulster to bring digital storytelling into undergraduate courses as assignments to produce student generated content

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Assessment»Feedback from the sessions indicated

staff wanted to know how to use digital storytelling for assessment

»Sharing my level 7 qualitative rubric

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SFHEA»I recently used a digital story as part

of my successful application for Senior Fellowship of HEA

»My professional journey - Reflection

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Early career researchers»Maire Braniff has asked me to teach digital

storytelling to early career researchers as part of British Academy funding

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British Academy› St Andrews, Canterbury, Wales and Ulster (Belfast)› March 2017 showcase at Institute for government

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Other opportunities»I am running workshops with Research Institutes

in Ulster in preparation for the next Ref 2020

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What’s next?»More workshops in September 2016»Showcase event & website

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Thanks to:»Andy Jaffrey, Chris Thomson (Jisc), Colette Murphy,

Gemma McFaul, Maire Braniff and Liz Finnigan