Developing Identities and Amplifying Voice Through the Power of Multimodality in Digital Stories (Poster 42)

• In Event: Saturday Poster Session 3:05 pm
  In Poster Session: Intersections of Technology, Learning, and Digital Media: Diverse Perspectives on Modern Education

Abstract

This study explores the experience of two teachers creating digital stories. We ask how digital story-making fostered their professional identity development as teachers. We use case study methods and visual grammar analysis, drawing on Unsworth’s systematic functional linguistic analysis (2001) and Author et al. (2021)’s sociocultural approach, to analyze the digital stories. The results show that the teachers found digital story-making to be a positive experience, an opportunity to express their voices and facilitate reflection as developing teachers. Both teachers also appreciated digital storytelling as a way to share with others and receive feedback about their work in a way that helped the development of their teacher professional identities.

Authors

• Yoonmi Kang, Harvard University

• Deoksoon Kim, Boston College

• Katrina Borowiec, Boston College