Join TLLS for our third virtual coffee hour New Spins on Old Stories (Oral History) & Students as Content Creators on October 19th at 9:00 am. This panel discussion explores how we can work collaboratively to assist and encourage faculty to experiment with scaffolded instruction leading to active learning and authentic projects, whereby students emerge as content creators and a new generation of storytellers. Registration is required. This discussion is open to faculty, staff, and students. Event Registration:https://lib.uncw.edu/tlls_virtual_coffee_hour
Panelists:Nathan Saunders, Associate Director, Center for Southeast North Carolina Archives and History; Allison Kittinger, Scholarly Communications Librarian; John Knox, Digital Scholarship Librarian; and Jennifer Sias, Instructional Designer
Facilitators: Karen Thompson, Instructional Designer and Chris Robinson, Outreach and Engagement Librarian
New Spins on Old Stories (Oral History) & Students as Content Creators
“People are hungry for stories. It’s part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another.” ~ Studs Terkel
Stories and storytelling are as old as humankind. As author, interviewer and storyteller extraordinaire Studs Terkel notes, stories are a precious commodity and serve as oral history. While Terkel did not invent the genre, he did transform it and establish oral history as a highly regarded and engaging medium.
Terkel’s oral history work provides us with an invaluable snapshot of Americana and inspiration for new content creation (new spins on old stories). His numerous interviews, captured in books as well as many in audio, are a treasure-trove, not only for oral historians, but also for instructors who want to engage students in bridging theory with practice.
By sharing Terkel’s and others’ oral history work, faculty can begin scaffolding instruction that is enriched by the soil of carefully curated stories and designed to inspire students to conduct oral histories on their own.