Synopsis:

Digital Storytelling is a powerful means for enabling communication and social participation. Ordinary people work with expert creative practitioners to create first person narratives for a wide and growing range of purposes, including community building, cultural engagement, brand identification, education, and public communication. This form of co-creative media takes advantage of newly accessible technologies but is based in the ancient and universal tradition of storytelling.

A digital story usually combines 15-30 still images and a recorded script of 100-250 words to create an original personal digital story in the form of a 2-3 minute digital video. Creative Industries Faculty researchers at QUT have an internationally recognized track record in adapting Digital Storytelling to a variety of contexts and purposes including poverty reduction, public history, and youth engagement. From 2009 this expertise is made available to the wider community through Continuing Professional Education courses.

2009 Schedule:

In addition to the scheduled workshops, it is possible for additional workshops to be delivered off-campus and customized to address specific professional, community, cultural or commercial objectives of host organizations.

Study Level Options & Certification:

All completing participants receive a certificate of completion. It is also possible for participants to qualify for 12 credit points of advanced standing in a Creative Industries coursework postgraduate award (subject to Course Coordinator approval of a credit application). This option involves completing two items of assessment in addition to your own Digital Story. This assessment is supported by the seminar program.  

Who should do this Continuing Professional Development program?

The 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 their applied knowledge of how digital media can be used to engage clients and end-users. 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

What will I learn in the Digital Storytelling Workshop?

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

If you are undertaking the Academic Credit Option you will also learn about:

• Adapting Digital Storytelling methods to new contexts and problems
• Evaluating Digital Storytelling and co-creative media

What will I learn in the Digital Storytelling Seminar Program?

You will learn about:

• Participatory culture and co-creative media
• The history of digital storytelling and how it can be used to research and develop participatory culture in a variety of contexts
• Digital storytelling aesthetics
• Strategies for facilitating co-creative media.

Workshop Facilitators:

Experienced workshop facilitators Christina Spurgeon and Mimi Tsai draw on research expertise from the Creative Industries Faculty to offer participants an exciting Continuing Professional Education opportunity in this co-creative media method.

Christina Spurgeon
Dr Christina Spurgeon lectures in Media and Communication in the Creative Industries Faculty. Her research interests converge on how media and communications can be used to develop participatory culture in a variety of government, non-government, community and market contexts. She has run Digital Storytelling workshops at QUT for over three years and is author of Advertising and New Media (Routledge 2008).

Mimi Tsai
Mimi Tsai is the Digital Storytelling Project Officer at Creative Industries Faculty of the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.  Currently, she is working collaboratively on Digital Storytelling Projects within the faculty. Mimi has completed a MA degree in Creative Industries in 2005. Her specialties include co-created media. Her current research interests are within the arena of digital media.

Creative Industries Faculty, internationally recognized for their Digital Storytelling research, will also contribute to workshops and seminars as availability permits. This includes Distinguished Professor John Hartley (co-author of Story Circle. Digital Storytelling around the World, Wiley-Blackwell 2009); Professor Jo Ann Tacchi (author of Ethnographic Action Research: A Users Handbook, UNESCO 2003); Dr Jean Burgess (co-author of YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture, Polity 2009) and Dr Helen Klaebe (author of Sharing Stories: A Social History of the Kelvin Grove Urban Village, Focus Publishing 2006).

Cost:

The schedule of fees below shows costs for the two certification options. Assuming you pass all assessment, the first option would see you qualify for 12 credit points of Academic Credit and advanced standing in a Creative Industries postgraduate coursework award (including a Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma or Masters). In the second option you would not be required to complete assessment and would be awarded a certificate of completion for attending the workshop and producing your own Digital Story. The schedule also shows costs for both options for domestic and international participants.

Venue:

QUT, Kelvin Grove Campus
Victoria Park Road, Kelvin Grove
Room details to be advised closer to Course commencement date.

Registration:

To register for the Course, please click on the "Register Here " link, below:

Upon registration, an invoice will automatically be sent to your email address.

Registration can be paid for by credit card at the time of registration or by cheque, EFT/Direct Debit.

Fee-Help and HECS are not available for Continuing Professional Education Courses.

Register Here

1. Register via the online registration link above (have your credit card ready if you are paying online).

2. A registration email will automatically be sent back (to the email address nominated on the online registration form).

Cancellation:

Registration cancellations will not be accepted unless made in writing to the Course Manager, either by mail, facsimile or email (cpe@qut.edu.au).

Cancellations received prior to two weeks before the start of a course (ie 10 business days) will be refunded less $100 (please note if you have not paid you will still be invoiced for this amount). No registration refunds will be made after that date (ie inside two weeks prior to a course start date). Cancellations received within two weeks prior to a start date will be charged the full fee (even if payment has not already been received). 

Contact Information:

For further information regarding course content or assessment, please contact Course Coordinator:
Dr Christina Spurgeon
Phone: +61 7 3138 8184
Email: c.spurgeon@qut.edu.au

For Registration or Payments queries, please contact Course Manager:
Office of Continuing Professional Education
Phone: +61 7 3138 9350
Email: cpe@qut.edu.au

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