Certificate Program in Digital Storytelling

The University of Colorado at Denver (UCD), in conjunction with the Center, offers a series of four CU-transcripted, graduate-level courses in which participants develop the skills necessary to produce digital stories as well as to facilitate their use across a wide range of educational and work settings.

The Certificate Program consists of our three-day Standard or Educator Workshop, a ten-week online course, a five-day Facilitator in Training workshop, and a one-credit, self-paced implementation course.

IT 5330 Digital Storytelling Workshop: (Three-day intensive—offered approximately twenty-five times/year; this is fulfilled by taking the Center's Standard Workshop or Educator workshop in any available location) This course offers an introduction to methods and strategies for the design and production of digital stories. Participants get hands-on experience with multimedia tools and produce a three to five minute digital story. Lecture topics include principles of design and narrative structure, the story development process, uses of stories for education and personal development, and introduction to multimedia tools for storytelling. The historical and future significance of digital storytelling are reviewed. (Two graduate credits)

IT 5340 Digital Storytelling in the Curriculum: (Online course—offered twice a year through the University of Colorado at Denver during the Spring and Summer terms) Participants learn when and where to use digital stories in a school or training curriculum; review and explore various authoring tools and types of storytelling activities; and develop and implement a learning unit involving participants/employees in creating and sharing digital stories. (Three graduate credits)

IT 5350 Leadership for Digital Storytelling: (Five-day intensive—offered approximately two times/year; this is fulfilled by taking the Center’s Facilitator in Training) This week-long iworkshop focuses on the review and definition of facilitation techniques for digital storytelling in a variety of contexts, a presentation of the implementation practicum completed during the online course of the program, and teaching practice sessions combined with extensive feedback on performance. The workshop allows participants to self-assess and self-select specific skills that they’d like to practice, present, and receive feedback on. (Three graduate credits)

IT 5830 ST: Implementing and Evaluating Digital Stories (Self-paced, open scheduling, subject to instructor availability): This course is designed for teachers and instructors who have previously developed an instructional unit in digital storytelling or a closely related subject. Participants implement the unit with a group of learners, and evaluate its effectiveness and impact on learning. (One graduate credit)

IT 5330 Digital Storytelling Workshop (2 credits):
Standard Workshop or Educators Workshop $625 ($495 + ($65 x [2 credit hours]))

IT 5340 Digital Storytelling in the Curriculum—Online Course (3 credits):
$1,171 ($1071 + $100 online course fee)
(Subject to annual increase. Offered only through the University of Colorado at Denver.)

IT 5350 Leadership for Digital Storytelling (3 credits):
$1,095 ($900 + ($65 x [3 credit hours]))

IT 5830 ST: Implementing and Evaluating Digital Stories (one credit hour): $357 (subject to annual increase). Offered only through the University of Colorado at Denver.

Total program cost: $3,248
(Does not include any travel/lodging for attending workshops)

Details and Downloads:

You can take any three-day Standard or Educator Workshop, at any location, to fulfill IT 5330.

You can take any five-day Facilitator in Training, in any location, to fulfill the IT 5350.

Please visit our Master Schedule for dates and locations of these workshops.

If you’ve already taken Standard, Educator, and/or Facilitator in Training workshops in the past two years, you may use them towards your certificate, but you still need to pay and register for university credit for these courses.

2010:

Summer:
Download credit application for three-day workshops in Summer 2010.
Download credit application for five-day workshops in Summer 2010.

Spring:
Download credit application for three-day workshops in Spring 2010.
Download credit application for five-day workshops in Spring 2010.

(For any other semesters, please contact Daniel Weinshenker.)

To enroll in IT 5830 ST: Implementing and Evaluating Digital Stories, please contact Professor Brent Wilson at UCD.

IT 5340 Digital Storytelling in the Curriculum, the online course, is offered through the University of Colorado at Denver two times per year. Download registration instructions for this course. The next session is:
(6/7/2010 - 7/31/2010)

When you are ready to begin the Certificate Program, please complete a Certificate Program Statement of Intent and fax it to the University of Colorado, Denver Student Services Center. The semester you plan to complete the Certificate Program, you will need to complete and submit a Certificate Completion Notification form in order to have the certificate noted on your permanent record.

Download Certificate Program Statement of Intent
Download Certificate Completion Notification

Contacts:
If you have additional questions about the Center’s three-day or five-day workshops, please email workshop@storycenter.org.

If you have additional questions about the certificate program, transfer of credits, registering for the online course, or paying for credits for either the online course, the independent study or the three-day or five-day workshops, please contact Hilary Bruce, University of Colorado at Denver School of Continuing Education, 303-315-4986.