This collection was made to help facilitate a hands-on workshop organized by the Paul Peck Humanities Institute at Montgomery College and the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, and co-facilitated by Dr Antonia Liguori (Loughborugh University, UK) and Dr Philippa Rappoport (SCLDA).

The workshop is designed for faculty, staff and librarians from all disciplines.  

Attendees are introduced to the five-step Digital Storytelling process: briefing and story-circle; writing; recording; editing; and sharing.  We will also build in time to discuss digital storytelling pedagogy, as offer insights into integrating technology into learning.  

This workshop is part of the research project "Storying the Cultural Heritage: Digital Storytelling as a tool to enhance the 4Cs in formal and informal learning" led by Dr Antonia Liguori, appointed as a Smithsonian Fellow with the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access (SCLDA) from March 1 to June 30 2018, and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK under the International Placement Scheme. Over the next months, Dr Antonia Liguori, in collaboration with Dr Philippa Rappoport – who has agreed to serve as principal mentor/advisor during Dr Liguori’s appointment – will work to explore the use of Digital Storytelling in combination with the digital resources of the Smithsonian Learning Lab.

About the Digital Storytelling workshop's facilitator 

Dr. Antonia Liguori is Senior Research Associate in Applied Digital Storytelling at the School of the Arts, English and Drama - Loughborough University (UK) and Research Fellow at the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access (US). She has a PhD in History and Computer Science (Bologna, Italy) and a Masters in Contemporary History (Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy). She is also a journalist and a Web content and SEO manager.
Since 2008, she’s been working on a variety of research projects for the development of innovation in education. In particular she hass been using digital storytelling and other participatory approaches to facilitate learning processes (both in formal and non-formal education), dismantle knowledge hierarchies and democratise decision-making. 
Over the past two years she has been coordinating the research agenda of the European project DICHE – Digital Innovation in Cultural and Heritage Education, during which she’s been identifying/developing tools and approaches to support students in fostering 21st Century skills. This has represented the starting point to shape themes and structure of the practice-led research she is currently working on at the Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access, as part of her Fellowship at the Smithsonian Institution funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK from March to June 2018.
Before moving to the UK, from 2006 to 2012, she coordinated the Multimedia Department at BAICR Sistema Cultura (a consortium of 5 prestigious cultural institutions in Italy) with the aim of contributing to the enhancement of the Italian cultural heritage through the use of innovative methodologies and the creation of digital environments. 
Since 2014 she is an individual member of ENCATC, the European Network on Cultural Management and Cultural Policy Education.

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