Teaching with mobile devices and digital storytelling: one political scientist’s projects

How are faculty teaching with mobile devices?  This story describes one such case at Seton Hall University.

Dr. Michael Taylor, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Environmental Studies… has incorporated mobile devices (Nokia N95), digital storytelling, blogging/vlogging (video blogging) and live video streaming in two of his courses: Introduction to Environmental Studies and Introduction to Public Policy.

Seton Hall supported this work through its innovative mobile initiative.

Taylor also used digital storytelling in one class:

The first project, “New Jersey Environmental Narratives,” involved students creating digital stories about a place in New Jersey that has been especially important in terms of shaping their own attitudes toward the natural environment….
The second digital storytelling project for this course was called “Green Consumer Ethnographies.”  Students were required to create short digital ethnographies that detailed their feelings about what it means for a specific product to be “green” and how that impacts their purchasing decisions.

Examples can be found here.

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Posted on August 5, 2009 at 11:27 am by Bryan Alexander · Permalink
In: News: Participating Campuses, Weblogs · Tagged with: , , , ,

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