One of several workshops in the "Digital Humanist's Help Desk" series.

How can researchers make their scholarship engaging and accessible for non-specialist audiences? Digital storytelling combines narrative techniques with digital tools and multimedia elements to enrich communication about research and ideas and can be implemented widely across disciplines. This session will introduce several digital storytelling outcomes - including multimodal publications, digital archives and exhibits, interactive maps, and podcasts - and some tools and approaches for creating them for your research. This workshop will be offered in a hybrid modality.

Having attended this workshop, participants can expect to be able to:

• Define digital storytelling
• Understand best practices and approaches for getting started with digital storytelling
• Identify tools and platforms that can result in key digital storytelling outcomes

Intended audience:

Anyone is welcome, including attendees not affiliated with Penn, although emphasis will be placed on resources and tools that are available to Penn affiliates. Although the workshop material is discipline-agnostic, it may be most beneficial for those working in arts, humanities, or social science contexts.

About the instructor:

Cynthia Heider is the Public Digital Scholarship Librarian at Penn Libraries, where she works to initiate and support digital projects, scholarship, and programming that center community partnerships and public engagement. Cynthia holds a Master's degree in history from Temple University’s Center for Public History as well as a BA in history from Goucher College.