Sharing Experiences: Developing Students' Skills Through Storytelling
Abstract: Storytelling in instructional materials, by instructors, and by students provides an effective platform for achieving and documenting student learning. This session demonstrates how the use of narrative based instructional materials that take students through the beginning, middle, and end of an assignment – much like a story – improves instruction. In addition, the session shows how sharing faculty stories and crafting assignments that allow students to tell aspects of their own stories empowers students and teachers.. As technology advances, students and teachers have or will have a variety of tools for expressing their rhetorical voice, including but not limited to blogging, personal websites, and use of story boarding technology. This session examines where one department has been, where it is now, and where it is going in terms of employing story telling in all aspects of instruction. The session will involve presenting a series of traditional assignments then converting them.