Locating Digital Storytelling in the Undergraduate Creative Writing Curriculum: Panel Presentation at the Association of Writers and Writing Program’s Annual Conference

Grant:

Lecturers' Professional Development Fund (LPDF)

Academic Year:

2014 - 2015 (June 1, 2014 through May 31, 2015)

Funding Requested:

$1,705.00

Project Dates:

Wed, 04/08/2015 - Sat, 04/11/2015

Applicant(s):

lcthomas

Overview of the Project:

I am requesting conference participation fees, travel and accommodation funding from the CRLT Lecturers' Development Fund to present a paper at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs 2015 Annual Conference and Bookfair in Minneapolis, MN. AWP was founded in 1967 to support the growing presence of literary writers in higher education, and is the professional organization for creative writing teaching professionals and writers. I will be a presenter on the panel Locating Digital Storytelling in the Undergraduate Creative Writing Curriculum based on a proposal I authored. This panel of university faculty will examine how electronic media is impacting the teaching of creative writing.

Final Report Fields

Project Objectives:

This panel presentation on Digital Storytelling in the Undergraduate Creative Writing Curriculum was designed to foster conversation among UM Residential College and LSA faculty panelists on strategies for teaching digital storytelling and designing a curricular structure for this pedagogy in an undergraduate cw program. The panel was also designed to bring visibility to UM's RC creative writing program and to solicit further ideas through the audience of professional writers and instructors who attend the AWP conference.

Project Achievements:

This panel presentation achieved the desired goals of fostering conversation about digital storytelling's impact on and opportunities for creative writing students. Each panelist shared their philosophy and strategies for incorporating digital media into their classroom instruction. We discussed the moral, ethical, and practical implications of this mode of storytelling. The panelists solicited lively conversation from the professional audience and came away with new ideas and resources for teaching digital storytelling.

Continuation:

Yes. I am working on developing an essay on digital storytelling pedagogy and the implications for undergrad creative writing programs based upon the paper I presented at the conference.

Dissemination:

I have added links to resources on our RC creative writing website. I also distributed handouts to colleagues at the conference presentation.

Advice to your Colleagues:

The grant funding was crucial to my ability to present this panel at this major professional conference. Being funded by CRLT made this project possible.

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