As a pedagogical and archival practice, I teach about both digital and analog story telling techniques, technology, and platforms to young audiences from 4 years old to 16. The following courses were taught to a variety of youth audiences with distinct skills, abilities, languages, and interests. These courses also tend to focus on using personal or archival records as materialized memories for young students and storytellers to reflect and share their own stories as well as those of their families or communities.
What Makes a Story: Storytelling for Beginners
University of Washington Robinson Center
Fall 2023, Winter 2024, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Winter 2025, Spring 2025
Ages: pre-school to 2nd grade
In this Saturday Enrichment introductory class, students learned to use storytelling tools and techniques to explore, understand and tell personal stories. This class learned about the art of storytelling and the various opportunities traditional non-digital and modern digital technology provides in telling stories today from writing tools to cameras. Throughout each class, students participated in creating materialized memories using the techniques or technologies discussed each week.
Digital Storytelling: My Past, Present, and Future Summer Course
University of Washington Robinson Center | Summer 2023
Ages: Middle Schoolers in grades 5th and 6th
The Summer Challenge program at the University of Washington Robinson Center is an academically advanced summer program for 5th and 6th grade students. Summer Challenge provide intensive, hands-on, fun, and educational teaching in areas outside of the traditional school curriculum. In this class students used digital storytelling tools and techniques to explore, understand, and tell stories of their immediate personal or longterm familial pasts.
Check out their projects HERE
Digital Storytelling
University of Washington Robinson Center | Summer 2022
Ages: Middle Schoolers in grades 5th and 6th
The Summer Challenge program at the University of Washington Robinson Center is an academically advanced summer program for 5th and 6th grade students. Summer Challenge provide intensive, hands-on, fun, and educational teaching in areas outside of the traditional school curriculum. In this class students will learn to use digital storytelling tools and techniques to explore, understand, and tell stories of their local University of Washington environment.
Check out their group project HERE
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