Using Mobile Devices by Media Students as a Tool for Digital Storytelling

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Author(s): Mohammad Ayish (American University of Sharjah, UAE)and Sohail Dahdal (American University of Sharjah, UAE)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 11
Source title: Cases on Smart Learning Environments
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Abtar Darshan Singh (Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University, UAE), Shriram Raghunathan (VIT Bhopal University, India), Edward Robeck (American Geosciences Institute, USA)and Bibhya Sharma (University of the South Pacific, Fiji)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6136-1.ch003

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Virtual Learning Environments

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The introduction of mobile devices has brought about dramatic transitions not only in how ordinary individuals communicate with one another, but also in how media students learn to tell highly compelling digital stories. In higher education, mobile devices are increasingly proving to be quite powerful tools aiding media students in learning storytelling techniques across media platforms. This chapter draws on a pilot project involving a survey of mass communication students at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, in which iPads and smart phones were used to generate video stories as course assignments. A survey of students involved in the project reveals they were highly passionate about doing their video storytelling assignment on iPads and smart phones as compared with traditional audio-visual capturing tools. The authors see a huge potential for mobile devices as credible media gathering tools in the emerging real-world journalistic practices.

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