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Digital Stories Competition Guidelines |
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Purpose
Digital stories will serve to document students’ study abroad
experiences and provide an avenue to them to reflect on their study
abroad experience, make meaning of it, and present it to fellow
study abroad students and prospective students. It may also serve
course requirements such as a final report, a journal, or a paper;
students should check with their individual instructors about this.
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Eligibility
Students enrolled in Study Abroad programs at WSU for the Spring/Summer
2009 may participate in this competition by submitting digital stories
of their stay overseas. |
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Requirements
Students must register for participation in the FLTC Digital
Stories competition prior to departure, work on their stories during
their stay overseas in the Summer and submit their digital stories
after they return. |
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Students
are encouraged to work in groups to create the stories; groups can
have 2 – 4 members. Students could select group members themselves;
alternately, the FLTC could also facilitate in matching group members.
Student groups must complete a registration form for participation
in the Digital Stories competition. To download the registration
form click here
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Groups
must turn in a 1-page "Treatment"’(An Outline) before
departure. |
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Each
group participating in the competition would have the option of
checking out a digital camera from the FLTC for their stay overseas.
However, groups must return the camera equipment to the FLTC on
their return from abroad. |
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FLTC will provide an orientation about fulfilling academic expectations,
making digital stories, and using camera equipment and film editing
software prior to departure. The FLTC will also offer the use of
its Editing Suite for students’ use after their return from
their stay overseas. |
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Students
must participate in this orientation. |
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Criteria
for judging digital stories
Digital stories created should reflect the attainment of one or
more of the following goals for foreign culture: |
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Understand and appreciate cultural differences in human behavior,
thought and values
Develop an in-depth
knowledge of one or more cultures through a study of its humanities,
history, or socio-cultural institutions
Compare the
ways in which other cultures are similar or different from your
own
Examine theory
and methods used in analyzing the features of another culture
Learn about
concepts not previously encountered
Develop skills
of analysis, reasoning and/or evaluation
Enlarge understanding
of societal and other issues |
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Awards |
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Digital
Stories submitted will be judged for their Creativity, Storyline/Editing,
Visuals and Capturing the essence of the country and its culture
as described above. Submissions will be selected for Best Screenplay,
Best Cinematography, Best Direction and Audience awards. Examples
of categories for Digital Stories include Representation of Life,
Fictional Representation, Documentary, Advertisements and Travelogues.
Digital Stories can have a maximum length of 15 minutes only. Awards
will be co-sponsored by the Study Abroad & Global Programs office.
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Equipment
Check-Out
Student groups checking out a camera from the FLTC would be responsible
for the camera, and its safe return to the FLTC. Failure to do so
could result in academic hold on the grade for all students in the
group. |
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Timeline
and Important Deadlines |
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Pre
Departure for Trip |
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Before
departure – Student groups interested in participating in
the digital story competition should complete Registration Form
and submit to FLTC |
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Pre-Departure
Orientation – FLTC will conduct an orientation for students
participating in the Digital Stories Competition before departure
date. |
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Students
submit a one-page Treatment of their Digital Story prior to departure. |
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Post
Return from Trip |
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Middle of October – Students finish working on films |
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October,
16, 2009 (Friday) – Students submit Digital Stories for the
competition to the FLTC |
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Nov.
16-20, 2009 (exact date to be announced) – Awards will be
announced by the FLTC at the Digital Stories Film Festival during
international week. |
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Questions
about the FLTC’s Digital Story Competition should be addressed
to:
Sangeetha Gopalakrishnan
Director
Foreign Language Technology Center
Phone: 313 577 3022
Email: sangeetha@wayne.edu |
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