Zwei Seelen wohnen ach in meiner Brust (Goethe) Alas two souls live within my chest, the one trained to shackle words, to make them march in predefined order, command approved phrases to rearrange meaning according to expectations, and one roaming in the wild, finding meaning as stories develop, taking a big stick and poking at […]
Tag: Storytelling
A Story about Becoming a University Teacher
Living by the Proverb ABSTRACT There seems to be a strong link between developing our identities and storytelling. As humans, we strive for coherence, and this coherence is found in stories (Hermans, 2001). This is an experimental paper telling a story about developing a brave, and authentic self as an educator (teacher) in Higher Education […]
Digital Storytelling, GDPR, and MS PowerPoint
authors: Dr N Tasler & Dr VHM Dale As part of our Creative Pedagogies for Active Learning course, we are running a digital storytelling session led by my partner in crime Dr Vicki Dale. Now last year Vicki offered Sway or–if people wanted to try–Adobe Spark (inspired by a session Dr Monica Chavez ran) as […]
Curriculum Development and Storytelling
Dr N Tasler & Dr VHM Dale Story-Telling How to tell a story? So one of the things I want to achieve, but not entirely sure yet how to, is to make sure the new course my fabulous colleague Dr Vicki Dale and I develop has a story. It is coherent. I know we are […]
Of story telling, coaching, and teaching in HE
I had a storyteller as coach Remember a while back my peer reviewer said that PowerPoint doesn’t work well for me because I am a storyteller? The problem with being a storyteller who has to rely on a linearly structured aid is that sometimes it works very well and sometimes not at all. So I […]
Adventures in Academic Development 