Certificate Program in Digital Storytelling

The University of Colorado at Denver in conjunction with The Center for Digital Storytelling is offering a series of three CU-transcripted, graduate-level courses to develop the skills necessary to produce digital stories as well as facilitate their use across a wide range of educational and work settings.

The Certificate Program consists of our basic 3-day workshop, an online, 10-week-long course, and our Train the Trainers 5-day workshop.

1. IT 5330 Digital Storytelling Workshop (3 day intensive – offered 12x/year - this is the same course as either the Basic or Educators 3-day workshop at CDS)
Introduction to methods and strategies for design and production of digital stories. Students will actually get hands-on with the tools and produce a ~3 minute digital story. Lecture topics include principles of design, narrative structure, procedures of the development process, use of stories for education and personal development, and introduction to multimedia tools for storytelling. Review of historical significance and future significance of digital storytelling. Two graduate credits.

2. IT 5340 Digital Storytelling in the Curriculum (online course – offered twice a year Winter and Summer through the University of Colorado-Denver). Learn when and where to use digital stories in a school or training curriculum. Review and explore various authoring tools and types of storytelling activities. Develop and implement a learning unit involving students/employees in creating and sharing of digital stories. Three graduate credits, with a fourth credit available for implemented units.

3. IT 5350 Leadership for Digital Storytelling (5 day intensive – offered 4x/year - this is the same course as either the Train the Trainers TTT or Educators TTT 5-day workshop at CDS)
This week-long intensive will focus on a review of and definition of facilitation techniques of digital storytelling in a variety of contexts, a presentation and reflection on the implementation practicum completed during the online course of the program, and teaching practice sessions combined with extensive feedback in performance. The weeklong workshop will allow participants to self-assess, and self-select specific skills that they’d like to practice, present, and receive feedback on. Three graduate credits.

Costs (not including any travel to the workshops):

1. IT 5330 Digital Storytelling Workshop (2 sem. hrs.) is $495 + $65 x 2 for credit, so = $625
Again, this is the same course as either the Basic or Educators 3-day workshop at CDS.

2. IT 5340 Digital Storytelling in the Curriculum -- Online Course (3 +1 sem. hrs.) is $1428 plus $125 online course fees x 2 courses = $1678
This course is only offered through the University of Colorado at Denver

3. IT 5350 Leadership for Digital Storytelling (3 sem. hrs.) is $900 + $65 x 3 for credit, so $1095
Again, this is the same course as either the Train the Trainers TTT or Educators TTT 5-day workshop at CDS.

Total: $3398

Details:

You can take any of our 3-day workshops in any location for the first course.
You can take any of our 5-day Train the Trainer workshops in any location for the third course.
You can find out the dates/locations of our 3-day and 5-day workshops by checking out our schedule.

If you’ve already taken our 3 or 5 day workshops in the past two years, you may use those towards your certificate, but you still need to pay and register for university credit for those courses.
Download credit application for 3-day workshop.
Download credit application for 5-day workshop.

The middle course, which is online, is offered via University of Colorado - Denver 2x/year.
It will next be offered May 27 -- Aug 2nd.
Download registration instructions for that course.

If you have more questions regarding the 3 or 5 day workshops, please email Daniel Weinshenker in our Denver office.

If you have more questions regarding the online course, registering for the online course,
paying for credits for either the online course or the 3/5 day workshops, please contact
Brian McEntee at 303 556 6030 at the School of Continuing Education at UCD.