Gale's RAP Students Shared Visual Literacy Images Via Social Media

June 24, 2015

Kendra Gale, PhD, is an instructor in the Communication and Society Residential Academic Program at CU Boulder. Gale completed the Fall 2014 ASSETT Teaching with Technology Seminar. She introduced a social media page into her class as a mechanism for sharing and discussing interesting images in the media. Teaching and...

Lights, Camera, This is What Beautiful Looks Like!

Sept. 30, 2011

, “If only I were four inches taller…,” “If only I were skinnier….,” “If only I had bigger breasts...,” “If only I had a smaller nose…,” “If only if only…”. For many young women, these thoughts accompany them in their daily lives and can even lead to harmful behaviors. From...

Digital Storytelling: Media In Your Own Voice

July 15, 2009

While searching for teaching ideas in the summer of 2006, Farrand RAP Senior Instructor Kayann Short “serendipitously” stumbled upon something that would change the course of her teaching interests: digital storytelling. Digital Storytelling is about the story first and foremost: a first-person narrative focusing on a meaningful personal experience. Unlike...