| The Foreign Language Technology
Center (FLTC) will be holding a competition of student digital stories
for students enrolled in study abroad programs at WSU. The winning
entries will receive an award. Furthermore, winning entries (and
possibly others) will be screened at a Student Film Festival.
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.
Eligibility
Students enrolled in Study Abroad programs at WSU for the Spring/Summer
2008 may participate in this competition by submitting digital stories
of their stay overseas.
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.
Students will 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. Registration
forms are available online at: www.langlab.wayne.edu/
Groups must turn in a 1-page ‘Treatment’(An
Outline) before departure.
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.
The 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.
Students must participate in this orientation.
Criteria for judging
digital stories
Digital stories created should reflect the attainment of one or
more of the following goals for foreign culture:
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
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. 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.
Timeline and Important Deadlines
Pre Departure for Trip |
