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| Title | Free Online Curriculum Helps Teachers Take Storytelling Into The Digital Age |
| Body | From http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/11/prweb1586144.htm Target Stores, Scholastic, and the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, have partnered with Sube Learning language thru Art, Music and Games (www.sube.com), a New Mexico-based innovator in language education, to offer a free online curriculum designed to bring Digital Storytelling training to the widest possible population. This powerful new medium allows ordinary people, with little computer experience and with readily available electronic tools, to create three- to four-minute video clips that can be played on a computer, shared as an email or played on a television. The complete curriculum is available for free downloading on www.scholastic.com/dreamincolor/digitalstorytelling and on https://www.sube.com/home/sube-community/digital-storytelling . Comprising eight easy-to-use lesson plans and a wealth of teacher resources, the curriculum breaks down the process of combining scraps of multimedia materials (such as photographs, drawings, music clips and other memorabilia) with the storyteller's own words to create a unique story. Target originally intended to offer the lessons online until late 2008, as part of its Dream in Color cultural-heritage initiative. But the Digital Storytelling curriculum has proved so popular that Target recently extended its availability until December 2009. Another national cultural organization, the Indigenous Language Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico, also hired Chavez to teach Digital Storytelling workshops to Native American language teachers, who then went back to their communities to pass on the skills. Read the entire press release at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/11/prweb1586144.htm . |
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