Using Digital Storytelling for Learning Engagement

Workshop Format
NoClip (Danny O’Dwyer) is one of the world’s most prominent non-academic practitioners of Digital Storytelling. Digital Storytelling is a prism through which high quality content is produced to assist in creating learning strategies, build relationships and establish people’s presence online. Digital Storytelling is traditionally used in a public health context and also for archiving of societal, cultural, religious or historical material with museums and galleries. NoClip’s mission is “to preserve the story of video games and video game developers for generations to come.”
Although Danny is a practitioner in telling digital stories about video game development, the methods and knowledge is applicable to all disciplines. The seminar will also include a workshop on creating digital stories, incorporating idea conception, scripting, storyboarding, recording and editing audio/video and sharing of the stories.
You can sample some of NoClip’s output on their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0fDG3byEcMtbOqPMymDNbw
Learning Outcomes:
- Recognise key objectives in creating digital stories
- Reflect on video games as an intersectional form of media
- Understand how digital story techniques can be applied to technical and non-technical disciplines to create innovative learning materials
- Create links between staff of the Department of Computing & Mathematics and other faculties
- Record and publish a podcast as a teaching/learning resource
Refreshments
A light lunch will be provided in advance of the workshop at 1pm in A02. Please come along early to meet Danny and Rob and have the chat over tea, coffee and sandwiches.
Location
Boardroom, A02, WIT Main Campus
Cork Road
Waterford Institute of Technology
Waterford
Danny O’Dwyer is an independent Irish video game journalist and documentary producer with over 13 years’ experience. In 2016, Danny founded a US-based production company NoClip (www.noclip.video) which has created over twenty documentaries on video game development and the societal impact of the medium. NoClip operates on a crowdfunding model and currently has almost 4500 active funders on Patreon. The NoClip channel on YouTube currently has over 400k subscribers with many documentaries receiving over a million views. Prior to NoClip, Danny was a journalist and CBS Interactive Media in the US and Gamespot UK, through which he won numerous professional awards. Danny is an alumnus of WIT, having graduated with a BSc (Hons) Multimedia Application Development.
"Gamers deserve our media that reflects our passions, a press that uses its access to tell stories about how games get made, the people who play them, and the ways in which they reflect our lives—stories that make us proud to be gamers."
Recognise key objectives in creating digital stories
Reflect on video games as an intersectional form of media
Understand how digital story techniques can be applied to technical and non-technical disciplines to create innovative learning materials
Create links between staff of the Department of Computing & Mathematics and other faculties
Record and publish a podcast as a teaching/learning resource