Digital Storytelling & 21st Century Skills: A Summit & Gathering

Artist/Organization Name: 
KQED, Digital Story Telling Festival
Date: 
08/23/2008 - 10:00am - 08/23/2008 - 2:00pm
We invite you to explore the intersection of Digital Storytelling and 21st Century Skills and Literacies. Here you can engage in conversations with other digital storytellers: educators and community activists, practitioners and deep enthusiasts. The focus is on education and community outreach, and our panel of experts will share best practices and facilitate roundtables on using Digital Storytelling to support and nurture these 21st century skills: Critical and Analytic Thinking, Cultural Competence, Creativity and Innovation, Effective Communication and Interpersonal Skills, and Problem Solving.

Panelists On Education:
Moderator: Leslie Rule, KQED Digital Media Center
Kim Hyun-Deok Forman, Professor, San Francisco State University
Howard Levin, Technology Director, Urban School and ISTE Board Member
Erika Padilla-Morales, Digital Teachers Coach, Streetside Stories
Jovel Queirolo, Student Digital Storyteller, Convent of the Sacred Heart

Panelists On Community:
Moderator: Denise Atchley, Director, Digital Storytelling Festival
Edgardo Cervano-Soto, Student Digital Storyteller, Stanford University
Lana Husser, Multimedia Director, EarthTeam and Green Screen
Jen Nowicki, Co-director, Creative Narrations
Michella Rivera-Gravage, Director of Digital Media, Center For Asian American Media

As always, we are grateful to our generous sponsor.

This event is free and all are welcome, Please RSVP.
Coffee/Pastries and Lunch provided if you RSVP

Leslie Rule
E-mail: 
lrule [at] kqed [dot] org
Website URL: 
www.dsi.kqed.org