Storytelling in the Digital Age
The Office of Information Technologies and the Rose O'Neill Literary House are proud to present Storytelling in the Digital Age. Each semester, the Literary House takes on a new theme as it examines topics in modern literature. For this fall, the exploration focuses on the impact that digital tools have on storytelling. As a partner, OIT will leverage its expertise in current and emerging technologies to offer training workshops and to support the innovative performances and speakers scheduled this semester.
Digital Workshops
Digital Storytelling 101
Digital Storytelling 101 aims to introduce students, faculty and staff to the storytelling tools of modern times. Joshua Wolf Shenk, Director of the Rose O’Neill Literary House, will open the class with a brief introduction to storytelling and remind the audience of literary concepts. The instructor will then lead the class through examples of digital stories. The goal of the course is to show the connection between traditional storytelling and digital tools, all while inspiring creativity in the participants.
- Prerequisite: none
- Objectives:
- learn how storytelling is changing in the digital age
- become familiar with new storytelling tools
- Availability:
- September 17 (M) from 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
- September 19 (W) from 9:00 am - 10:30 am
- October 8 (M) from 9:30 am - 11:00 am
- October 10 (W) from 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
- Instructor: Nick Smerker
- Outline: Download PDF
- Register Now: Workshop Registration
Introduction to InDesign
The Introduction to InDesign workshop is designed to give the user a practical knowledge of the software, as well as an introduction to the rules of publication (print or virtual) design. Users will learn how to create a book, journal, or magazine as they choose. This is a two part class.
- Prerequisite: basic computer skills
- Objectives:
- learn the uses of InDesign
- become familiar with the interface
- create a many-page publication using many basic and some more advanced tools
- Availability:
- Session 1: October 24 (W) from 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- Session 2: October 25 (R) from 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
- Instructor: Diane Landskroener
- Outline: available soon
- Register Now: Workshop Registration
OIT Training & Tutorials
Performances & Speakers
The End of the World As We Know It by Noah Robischon
"The End of the World as We Know It: How Blogs, Social Networking, and Digital Media Are Changing Everything About How You Communicate, What You Create, and Who You Are"
Noah Robischon of Gawker Media is here to help us navigate the new digital party scene. Gawker Media is considered one of the most visible and successful blog-oriented media companies today. Don’t be a digital wallflower - bring all your Facebook friends.
- Date: September 6 (R)
- Time: 7:30 pm
- Location: Litrenta
- More Info: Gawker Media
SimpleTEXT: A Cell Phone Enabled Interactive Performance by Family Filter
Is it art? Music? Or literature? SimpleTEXT is a collaborative audio/visual public performance that relies on audience participation through input from mobile devices such as phones, PDAs or Laptops. SimpleTEXT encourages the audience to build upon one another’s ideas to create a moving picture collage set to music. Bring your cell phone or wireless laptop and anonymously collaborate with Jonah Brucker-Cohen and Tim Redfern as they give you text that is anything but simple. Co-sponsored by the Office of Student Activities.
Poetry in the Electronic Age: Oni Buchanan's Mandrake Poems and the Future of Verse
Join poet Oni Buchanan as she presents The Mandrake Vehicles, her disappearing/reappearing poetic work that uses flash animation to explore the mandrake plant and its manifold associations. She’ll share her thoughts on what new technology means for the written word.
Breaking the Silence: Literature Before the Book by Corey Olsen
Many of us can hardly remember a time before computers; what was the world like before the printed book? Our own Professor Corey Olsen leads a discussion on life in an oral and manuscript culture, when literature was a communal experience. Prepare to be illuminated.
Campus Events
Instructional Technology Open House (The 2007 Learning Festival)
Come see what Instructional Technology has to offer as the Beck Instructional Lab and the Mulitmedia Production Center open their doors to the Washington College community. The event will be held during the 2007 Learning Festival at the Clifton M. Millery Library. Instructional Technology staff will be on hand to answer your questions and share with you exciting new tools for education.
- Date: September 7 (F)
- Time: 11: 00 am - 2:00 pm
- Location: Beck & MPC
Rose O'Neill Literary House Open House & Print Shop Demonstration
The Rose O'Neill Literary House was renovated this summer and we'd like to show you our new look! There’s more than just a fresh coat of paint inside. Meet the Lit House staff, visit our new publishing lab, and join us for refreshments. Our Master Printer will be on hand to give demonstrations of our century-old letterpress.
- Date: September 4 (T)
- Time: 4:30 pm
- Location: Rose O'Neill Literary House
