What Digital Storytelling Can Teach Us About “Author’s Chair” in Diverse Classroom Communities

• In Event: Roundtable Session 66
  In Roundtable Session: Using Literacies: Multiple Literacies to Explore Students’ Identities and Experiences

Abstract

In the case of the digital storytelling research project presented in this proposal, the special dynamics of the African American oral tradition, and the multimedia aspects of their creations, may have worked together to heighten the effects of the different sociocultural expectations that are always at play in diverse school settings. Data collected and analyzed during this study revealed a transactional role for the audience based upon surprising interactions between first grade digital story authors and their peer/family audiences.

Author

• Marva Jeanine Solomon, Angelo State University