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 the method built at the Center for Digital Storytelling since 1994 starts by teaching people how to find one.
Session dates5–9 Apr 2027
LocationEma Bremen
Duration5 days
FundingErasmus+ eligible
About this course
Joe Lambert’s 2010 seven-step process turns one memory into a short film, in the order a teacher standing in front of thirty pupils and a deadline actually needs. This week runs the whole sequence on your own story, then turns it into a classroom unit. Monday — you find your own insight and the emotion…
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 Lambert's seven steps (2010) 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 Lambert's seven-step process (2010).
Source images and music under licences that permit classroom and public use, and obtain the permissions a pupil's personal story requires.
Label generated voices, images or soundtracks that could pass for a real person or event, as the EU AI Act requires of those who use such content, before anything is shown outside the classroom (good practice for other generated material too).
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.
Other dates for this course
- 4–8 Jan 2027 Bremen Planned
- 8–12 Feb 2027 Antalya Planned
- 12–16 Apr 2027 Antalya Planned
- 10–14 May 2027 Bremen Planned
- 26–30 Jul 2027 İstanbul Planned
- 18–22 Oct 2027 Antalya Planned
- 6–10 Dec 2027 Budapest Planned
€80/day€400 total · 5 days
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What's included
25 hours of training & materials
Certificate of attendance
Europass Mobility document
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Where our participants come from
Aggregated across all EMA courses, not specific to this session.
Romanian
22%
Polish
15%
Lithuanian
9%
Portuguese
8%
Bulgarian
7%
+ educators from 20 more countries across Europe and beyond
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