Digital Storytelling

“Digital storytelling allows for creative expressions of Indigenous storied traditions through audio, video, and multimodal narrations, which can help foster pride and understanding among Indigenous educators and learners. Digital storytelling has thus become an important educational tool that gives space, voice, and agency to Indigenous people, especially as this mode of expression can support and uphold oral traditions” 

                                                                                                           (Sam et al., 2021)


 Connecting with the Five Rs

  • Relevance: Are the digital stories that I am using relevant to Indigenous peoples, the context of the students and/or the land I am situated in?

  • Respect: Am I following protocols and practices that make me ready to share this story?

  • Reciprocity: How will sharing this story give back to the peoples/communities I am speaking of/for?

  • Responsibility: How is sharing this story committed to reconciliation, decolonization or/and Indigenous sovereignty?

  • Relationships: How will sharing this story connect the listeners to the experiences of Indigenous peoples in order to hold themselves accountable to their complicity in the continuous violence Indigenous peoples encounter?

 

 

Reading: 

Sam, J., Schmeisser, C., & Hare, J. (2021, 06/23). Grease Trail Storytelling Project: Creating Indigenous Digital Pathways. KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies, 5(1). https://doi.org/10.18357/kula.149