The Digital Storytelling project Intercultural Tales began in 2015 with a desire for connection. UMBC professors Dr. Tania Lizarazo and Dr. Thania Muñoz D. wanted to use storytelling in their community-engaged scholarship, but also sought to build personal relationships in their newfound city of Baltimore. Their collaborative project, funded by a Hrabowski Innovation Fund Grant, teaches UMBC students how to craft digital stories about their communities--stories of immigration, identity, and belonging.

In this virtual HT Lab, Drs. Lizarazo and Muñoz D. will teach participants how to use digital stories as part of a community-building exercise in the context of online learning.

Participants will explore three fundamental stages of digital storytelling: 

• The story circle--brainstorming story ideas

• The storyboard--reflecting on the use of images to illustrate a story

• The production--using Adobe Spark Video to create previews of a final story

Please register for this HT Lab by Monday, September 21. You will be sent a link to the Google Meet session prior to the lab. Questions? Contact Ally Kocerhan at alko1@umbc.edu.