Drawing on a decade of extensive digital storytelling at University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), experienced faculty practitioners have expanded story work beyond traditional personal narratives into community engagement and public scholarship projects. While social and civic aspirations have been present in the work of Joe Lambert and…

Librarians are tasked with helping students navigate content and discourse across disciplines as well as within their particular major. At times this requires a non-discipline-based form of teaching information seeking, gathering, and sharing that is often called information literacy. Digital storytelling provides a process for uncovering many of…

Hardy highlights the use of digital storytelling in medical education, describing a pilot project in which third-year medical students reflected on clinical practice placements through the creation of digital stories. The chapter reveals the students' insights into the relationship between who they are, who they will become and the kind of care…