PhotoVoiceThreadGiving Students Voice Through Digital Storytelling

Butte College Blackboard Community Exchange

withRyan Guy

Overview

• What is PhotoVoice?• What is VoiceThread?• What is PhotoVoiceThread?• Assignment

What is PhotoVoice?The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around

me. -Andre Kersetz

• Qualitative Research Method• Community Based Participatory Research• Created by Wang & Burris (1994)• Used in many disciplines – Communication, – Public health, – Community Organization,– …

How PhotoVoice Works• Community participants take photos– Goal is to represent community or POV via photo

• Photos collaboratively discussed• Narratives developed to accompany photos• Data is collapsed into thematic categories

What is VoiceThread?

• Online Collaboration Platform.

• Users Upload Content and discuss via comments– Text,– Audio, or– Video

• http://voicethread.com/share/409/

How Voice Thread Works

• Users create accounts• Upload content– Images– Videos– PowerPoint Presentations

• Comment on content

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHERPhotoVoiceThread

What is PhotoVoiceThread

• Assignment Prototype for using Photovoice in Digital Space

• Can be online, face-to-face, or mixed

The Basic Assignment

• Students form groups of 4-6.• Students are tasked to go on a Mini-Adventure– Examples include• Bidwell Park• Butte College Wildlife Refuge• Local Disc Golf Courses • Chico Community Observatory• Bidwell Mansion • Honey Run Covered Bridge

The Basic Assignment Continued…

• Using camera phones, digital cameras, etc… students document their adventure.

• Post mini-adventure students meet to discuss photos captured. I like to use some in-class time.

• Collaboratively they create narratives surrounding their images.

• The following prompts can be helpful:– What story does this photo tell you?– What is going on outside this photo?– What theme does this photo fall into? Why?

Creating a PhotoVoiceThread

• Students sign up for free VoiceThread Accounts.• Photos from the mini-adventure are uploaded

to VoiceThread.• Students tell the stories they created for their

photos. – 10 narrated photos for a group of 5– 4-5 minutes of storytelling per student

Submission

• Options:– Assignment (viewed by instructor)– Discussion Board or Blog (viewed by class)

• Choice leads to different presentations– Assignments tend to be more personal– Open content = more selective self-presentation

Submission Continued…

• Regardless of choice I recommend embeds:– 20-25% of students will make links private?– I provide a YouTube video showing the process.• Feel free to use

TOUR OF ASSIGNMENT LMTo Blackboard!

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