Title: Teaching and Learning with Scholarly Digital Storytelling
Presenter: Kelly Schrum, George Mason University
Location: Zoom, Passcode: IWL

Abstract
Digital storytelling can be many things: narrative . . . interactive . . . linear . . . nonlinear . . . immersive . . . ethnographic. . . artistic. It can also be scholarly. Scholarly digital storytelling presents a compelling approach to reimagining academic research, intended audiences, and scholarly communication across disciplines, including world languages. It provides opportunities to promote multimodal learning while teaching practical digital skills. What happens when we use digital storytelling to communicate in multilingual classrooms? When we use it to teach digital skills as well as language comprehension? When we teach our students to present their work to broader audiences? This workshop will explore these questions and more, including practical strategies for integrating scholarly digital storytelling into world language classrooms.

Bio
Kelly Schrum is a professor in the Higher Education Program (College of Humanities and Social Sciences) at George Mason University. Her research and teaching focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning and on teaching and learning in the digital age, including online learning, scholarly digital storytelling(link is external), and digital humanities. She is the co-editor of Teaching and Learning Inquiry(link is external), the journal for the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL). Schrum has published widely, including recent articles on scholarly digital storytelling and teaching historical thinking in hybrid and online settings, and presents her work nationally and internationally. Schrum received her B.A. in history and anthropology from U.C. Berkeley and her M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University.