Digital & Innovative Education
Planned session
Digital Storytelling for Enhanced Learning
A class video with music, captions and a title card can look finished and still not be a story. What separates the two is a dramatic question — and StoryCenter has spent three decades teaching people how to find one.
Session dates8–12 Feb 2027
LocationEma Antalya
Duration5 days
FundingErasmus+ eligible
About this course
Joe Lambert did not set out to build a framework for teachers. From 1994 onwards, at the Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkeley, he and his colleagues were sitting ordinary people down and helping them turn one memory into a short film with their own voice on the soundtrack. In 2003 that workshop practice was…
Methodology
One Finished Story, Made in Sequence
Each participant produces a complete digital story of their own — insight, script, storyboard, recorded narration, sourced visuals and sound, final cut — following StoryCenter's seven steps in the order a story actually gets made, rather than studying the parts of one.
Rights and Consent Treated as Craft
Licensing images and music, getting permission for a pupil's voice, face and personal material, and labelling anything that was generated rather than recorded are taught as part of making the story rather than as small print — because they decide whether the finished work can ever be shown.
Mapped to a Named European Framework
Participants locate the week's work in DigCompEdu, the European Framework for the Digital Competence of Educators (Joint Research Centre, 2017), so the mobility comes home with a named competence gain rather than a general claim about digital skills.
What you'll take home
Produce a complete digital story of your own, about two minutes long — script, storyboard, recorded narration, licensed visuals and sound, final cut — using StoryCenter's seven-step process.
Source images and music under licences that permit classroom and public use, obtain the permissions a pupil's personal story requires, and apply the labelling that generated voices, images or soundtracks now require before anything is shown outside the classroom.
Run the same seven-step process as a classroom unit, with a workable timetable, a defined role for every pupil and a way to assess personal work fairly.
Judge a digital story by its dramatic question rather than its production values, and give a student feedback specific enough to act on.
€80/day€400 total · 5 days
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What's included
25 hours of training & materials
Certificate of attendance
Europass Mobility document
Half-day guided city tour with a local guide
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Where our participants come from
Aggregated across all EMA courses, not specific to this session.
Romanian
23%
Polish
14%
Lithuanian
10%
Spanish
7%
Portuguese
7%
+ educators from 19 more countries across Europe and beyond
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