Digital Storytelling Services
The Creative Industries & Design Faculty offers a range of education, engagement and research services in Digital Storytelling. These include short courses, intensive workshops and research, development and facilitation services.
2012 Continuing Professional Education: short courses and intensive workshops in Digital Storytelling
Digital storytelling is used in teaching and research at QUT as a platform for exploring the benefits and possibilities of social participation in our mediatised world. These include improved digital literacy and communication skills, healthier and more resilient communities, and a public culture enriched by perspectives and experiences that might otherwise be missed.
As part of QUT’s Continuing Professional Education program the Creative Industries & Design Faculty runs a program of short courses in Digital Storytelling and a program of five-day intensive workshops.
Short courses are for anyone who wants to learn how to create their own Digital Stories. Details, including information about dates and costs will be published here shortly.
The five-day intensive workshops are designed to help individuals and organisations to build their own capacities to facilitate social participation through co-creative media production techniques such as digital storytelling. Five-day intensive workshops can also be taken for academic credit by members of the public, in addition to enrolled QUT postgraduate students, or postgraduates visiting from other institutions. The 2012 program is outlined in the table below.
| Intensive number | Dates | Activities |
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| Intensive 1 | 10-14 April 2012 (Introduction 26 March 2012, 5-6.30pm) |
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| Intensive 2 | 5-11 July 2012 (Introduction 2 July 2012, 5-6.30pm) |
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| Intensive 3 | 29 November-5 December (Introduction 19 Nov 2011, 5-6.30pm) |
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Study Level Options & Certification
All participants who complete a Continuing Professional Education short course or five-day intensive workshop will receive a certificate of completion.
It is also possible to do the five-day intensive workshop for 12 credit points of academic credit that may count towards a postgraduate award at QUT or another university. In order to qualify for academic credit you complete two items of assessment in addition to your own digital story. This assessment is supported by the seminar program that is part of the five-day intensive Digital Storytelling workshop. In order to enrol in this option, you need to enrol as a student in a unit of postgraduate study: either KKP405 Co-Creative Media: Digital Storytelling or (from July 1 2012) KCP415 Co-Creative Media: Digital Storytelling. Please contact Dr Christina Spurgeon on (07) 3138 8184 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for further information.
Who should do a Continuing Professional Development Digital Storytelling short course?
If you want to learn how to create digital stories to share with family, friends and larger community and social networks, then the short course is for you. Over two days you will write and record a script and use a movie making application to combine a sound track and 12-20 images to create a compelling personal story. You will work with widely available software, and have the opportunity to finish your story in formats that will allow you to share your digital story by email, to upload it to social media such as Facebook and video aggregators such as YouTube, to lodge it with media and public cultural institutions such as ABC Open and the State Library of Queensland, and to have it broadcast on community television. Expert tutors will individualise learning and make the workshop experience fun. Prior knowledge of digital media applications is not necessary. At the conclusion of the workshop you will understand how to create and communicate many more of your own digital stories. In summary, you will learn how to:
- Write a script for a digital story
- Record and edit a voice over, and create a sound track
- Manipulate images
- Make your own digital story with cost-effective computer applications
- Manage copyright issues using Creative Commons licensing
Who should do a Continuing Professional Development five-day intensive Digital Storytelling Workshop?
The five day intensive workshop is aimed at arts managers, media and communication professionals and professionals in other service industries (for example, health and education) who wish to develop and update skills for the creative workforce. Prior knowledge of digital media applications is not necessary. The program is suited to people who would like to:
- develop their skills in creating short, story-based, digital multimedia presentations
- use co-creative media techniques to facilitate the creative participation of ordinary people in digital media projects
- apply digital storytelling techniques in community development and engagement activities, in government, non-government, community and commercial contexts
- become a digital storytelling workshop facilitator
- learn more about digital storytelling and co-creative media practices.
You will learn how to create your own digital story (as with the short course). You will also learn about:
- How to adapt co-creative media production methods such as digital storytelling to suit different contexts and problems
- Methods for evaluating co-creative media products, processes and outcomes
- Why participatory culture and co-creative media are so important to our contemporary mediascape
- Debates about the benefits of participatory culture and co-creative media methods
- Strategies for managing the logistics of community engagement through the use of co-creative media production methods.
Costs
Details for the CPE short courses, including costs, will be posted here shortly.
The CPE five-day intensive workshop costs $AUD1310. A different fee applies for the academic credit option of this program. Please contact Dr Christina Spurgeon on (07) 3138 8184 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for details.
How do I register for a short course or five-day intensive workshop in Digital Storytelling?
Registration the Digital Storytelling intensives is now open. Look for the 'registration' tab here or follow the link to 'Digital Storytelling Intensives' from the QUT Continuing Professional Education Courses page.
Customized Workshops
In addition to the short courses described above, additional workshops can be delivered off-campus and customized to address specific professional, community, cultural or commercial objectives of host organizations. Please contact Dr Christina Spurgeon on (07) 3138 8184 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for further information.
External Consultancies Services
The Creative Industries and Deisgn Faculty has a pool of professional research and media production specialists who can join or undertake your special projects. Please contact Dr Christina Spurgeon on (07) 3138 8184 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) for further information.
