Digital Storyteller is being developed as an initiative within the Center for Technology & Teacher Education in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia. Center faculty members and graduate fellows identify and explore innovative digital technologies.

Digital Storyteller is a member of a family of web based tools that also includes PrimaryAccess (designed for history teaching). Both projects are intended to serve as catalysts in use of effective technology-based tools in the K-12 classroom. Our partners in these endeavors include public schools, local public television stations, the Virginia Center for Digital History, StageTools, and other non-profit and commercial organizations.

For More Information, Please Contact

Bill Ferster
Director, Digital Storyteller Initiative
Curry School of Education
University of Virginia
bferster- @ - virginia.edu

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Who We Are

• Glen Bull is a professor of instructional technology in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia and co-director of the Center for Technology & Teacher Education. He is a founding member and past president of the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education (SITE), and recipient of the Willis Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement in Technology and Teacher Education. He currently serves as editor of Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education (CITE Journal) and provides leadership for the National Technology Leadership Coalition (NTLC), a consortium of national teacher educator associations and national educational technology associations.
• Bill Ferster has had a 25 year history of developing innovative tools for the film and video industry. He is currently a senior scientist at the University of Virginia with a joint appointment with the Center for Technology and Teacher Education at the Curry School and the Virginia Center for Digital History at the College of Arts and Sciences. He has founded numerous companies including West End Film, developer of the first PC-based 3D animation system, EMC, developer of the first digital nonlinear editing system which received an EMMY Award in 1993, and StageTools, the leading developer of image animation tools.
• Patrice Grimes is an assistant professor in the elementary education program. She has a background in the broadcast industry, and also served as a social students and language arts teacher for ten years. She has a particular interest in oral histories in teaching, collected through both digital and non-technological means, and in use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in social studies.
• Thomas Hammond is a fellow at the University of Virginia's Center for Technology & Teacher Education. He has taught history and computer science in the United States, Saudi Arabia and Haiti. He is an instructor for "Teaching With Technology" for pre-service teachers in the Curry School of Education.
• Sara Kajder is an assistant professor of literacy education at the University of Louisville. A former middle and high school English teacher, she received the first National Technology Leadership Fellowship in English/Language Arts. She is the author of The Tech Savvy English Classroom and Bringing the Outside In: Visual Ways to Engage the Reluctant Reader.
• Michael McKenna is the Jewell Professor of Education in the Curry School Reading Education program. His research interests include comprehension in content settings, reading attitudes, technology applications, and beginning reading. He serves on the editorial board of Reading Research Quarterly and other journals and conducts federally-sponsored research. His books for teachers include The Literacy Coach's Handbook, Assessment for Reading Instruction, Help for Struggling Readers, Teaching through Text, Issues and Trends in Literacy Education, among others.

Advisory Board

• Ed Ayers is the Dean of the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia and developed the highly acclaimed Valley of the Shadow Civil War project.
• Ken Burns is is one of the leading historical documentary filmmakers, including the landmark television series' The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, and Lewis & Clark.
• Jim Cooper is the Commonwealth Professor of Education Emeritus and was Dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia from 1984 to 1994.
• Joe Lambert is the Executive director of the Center for Digital Storytelling in Berekely CA.
• Bruce VanSledright is a professor at the University of Maryland's College of Education and a leading researcher on the teaching and learning of history in public schools.

Our Partners

• The Virginia Center for Digital History promotes the teaching and learning of history using digital technologies.
• StageTools LLC is the manufacturer of MovingPicture image animation software used by all the major broadcast and cable networks.
• Smithsonian American Art Museum is America's first federal art collection, dedicated to the enjoyment and understanding of American art.
• WHRO-TV is a PBS affiliated television and radio broadcaster meeting the educational, informational and cultural needs of the people of Southeastern Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina.