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Currently, I am a doctoral student in the Educational Leadership and Policy Studies program at the University of Vermont. Digital storytelling has become a primary interest of mine in recent years, and currently it is one of my possible dissertation topics. Previous to this year, I have been a faculty member in the Department of Education and part of our university's PT3 grant researching the impact of electronic portfolios in pre-service teacher preparation. In this capacity, I worked with Dr. Cynthia Reyes to introduce digital storytelling to pre-service teachers in the middle level program. Students in this class created literacy autobiographies in a digital story format. We have been amazed by the stories our pre-service teachers are telling about their personal journeys in literacy. This summer Dr. Ellen Thompson and I are teaching a digital storytelling course to in-service teachers. The focus of this course is -- "Developing Literacy Through Digital Storytelling." We will use this site and many others to inform our work.

Cheryl Colan teaches Digital Multimedia and Computer Graphics courses at Scottsdale Community College and at Phoenix College. She began her career in multimedia working at the Arizona Historical Society Museum at Papago Park, where she produced video and audio components for permanent exhibitions. Cheryl teaches Digital Storytelling as a semester-long class for students, and as a week-long workshop for faculty. She founded Node101 Phoenix in 2006 to bring on-demand videoblogging workshops to her local community.

Sites/Projects:

• hummingcrow: one squall voice - personal videoblog
• Bringing Digital Storytelling to the Classroom - LearnShop for Faculty
• Celebrating Cultural Identity through Digital Storytelling - ESL Learning Cooperative Project
• Digital Storytelling at Phoenix College - student work
• Node101 Phoenix - Free videoblogging classes in Phoenix
• Phoenix Media Makers - Monthly gathering of media enthusiasts in Phoenix
• PodCampAZ - New Media Unconference