Digital Storytelling Project
BUSPH - Codman Square Tech Center
SB733  Mass Communications in Public Health
Fall 2005
  
   
 
  Codman Square Tech Center
Boston University School of Public Health
Digital Storytelling Project

In the last decade, a new form of digital media, digital storytelling, has become an increasingly affordable and accessible means for organizations and agencies to carry their message to a larger audience. Locally for example, Creative Narrations has provided training for community participants and leaders to blend together their own voice, still photography, home video, and other artifacts to produce brief digital videos that can be viewed on VHS, CD-ROM, DVD, or the Internet. For community based organizations and educational institutions, these short hybrid videos can serve as a powerful tool internally for reflection, documentation, and evaluation, and externally, for outreach, education, and fundraising.

We adopted this model for our project in which Mass Communication and Public Health students developed skills in digital storytelling by producing their own stories. Then they worked with teens at the Codman Square Tech Center in Dorchester, MA, teaching them to write and produce their own digital stories. You can check out the teen's stories below.
        Teen Stories
        Jhosey talks about her struggle to pass the state MCAS tests and how important the love and
        support of her  mother were to her in this struggle.
        Jenny talks about caring for her nephew, Goldo, and how important he is to her life.
 

        Check out the MPH Student Digital Stories here
        You will need Real Player to see these movies. Get it here

        For examples of other digital stories in a Public Health context go to:
        http://www.rightquestion.org/betterdecisions/digital_stories.html

        For more information contact Rob Schadt, Office of Teaching, Learning and Technology