Video Storytelling

This VE project will be a collaboration between undergraduate students at Universidad del Norte in Barranquilla, Colombia, and Masters students at University of Florida. The course will join over a period of approximately six weeks in which students will build upon their shooting and editing skills and expand their theoretical foundations in the practice of storytelling in both fiction and non-fiction genres. Students will examine video storytelling across multiple media platforms, genres and cultures, as well as produce a short video and provide team-based peer-to-peer feedback. Using a constructivist approach, the collaborative modules are designed to allow students to find and create their own meaning in an asynchronous format requiring communication, analysis, and video production. Assignments will primarily be submitted in a shared Canvas module; however, students will have opportunities within each module to use the technology and platform of their choice to communicate and collaborate. Students will develop stories based on the topics addressed by GEF (Global Environmental Facility). We are seeking three specific objectives proposing this framework: an environmental awareness among students, a self-consciousness about the relevance of telling stories under this perspective and, last but not least, a cultural exchange based on different visions towards environmental challenges.

• Student-to-Student Dialogue
• Student-to-Student Project

• Videoconference (Zoom)
• Messaging Applications (WhatsApp, Email)
• Learning Management Systems (Canvas)
• Messaging Boards/ Video Boards (Flipgrid/ Padlet)

Students need to complete three exchanges with their partner/group.Students will either research or be assigned an environmental video explaining/creating engagement on an issue aliging with their project. Finally, students will peer review the projects.

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