To achieve its broad goals, the ELD project focuses on three specific areas which include:
- Detroit’s ethnic histories
- Undergraduate (and graduate) education at WSU
- Partnerships with Detroit organizations and local community
As a pedagogical tool, ELD’s digital storytelling platform and its developmental process is being integrated into the coursework of several existing WSU courses taught by the project’s co-directors. In addition to using the portal in existing courses, we also plan to create an upper-level undergraduate/graduate interdisciplinary humanities course at WSU on storytelling through digital media. Ultimately, we will create an online course on storytelling, possibly a MOOC, open to the general public beyond WSU.
Classroom integration
There are two major aspects to ELD integration in the classroom:
- Viewing of ELD stories
- Creating of ELD stories
As one aspect of integrating ELD in the classroom, students are asked to view ELD digital stories. The other aspect involves WSU students creating such stories.
ELD conducts workshops for both faculty and students on digital storytelling. Through these workshops, ELD facilitates faculty integration of digital storytelling in their classroom and equips students with the skills to create their own digital stories. ELD has held multiple digital storytelling workshops for students and faculty so far.
Learn more about ELD in the classroom
Resources
Here are some resources from our workshops and in-class activities on digital storytelling.
Are you interested in creating a digital story for ELD? Learn more about volunteering for ELD!