¡Manos a la obra!: Spanish digital storytelling projects

This session addresses the effectiveness of digital storytelling as valuable resource for second/foreign language learning. The project aims to foster students´ creativity, group cohesion and meaningful learning. Likewise, its use at different levels intends to create a learning journal that can be part of the students’ academic and professional portfolio.

Along with this, a completely new niche opens up for academic libraries to develop and upgrade their traditional activities in support of newly created courses and development of interdisciplinary and interdepartmental cooperation.

In this session, we highlight a specific example of a local digital storytelling project of the American University in Bulgaria. The perspectives of the faculty and the librarians during the process of creating the Spanish Digital Storytelling Project collection will be conveyed during the open discussion.

Challenges, results and good practices from the preparation and hands on work on this project will be shared, which would serve the AMICAL academic and library community in building capacity for similar future digital initiatives.

Along with achieving the pedagogical goals, this project embodies an effective collaboration, equal partnership and library advocacy by creating a model for successful interdepartmental collaboration between faculty, library, and students.