DIGITAL STORYTELLING

Kirsty Mc Geoch is a Ph.D student who really concerns about digital learning. That is why today she came to our class to teach and share about digital storytelling. In the first lesson, she run her own video story which told about her life. We also saw another video by her students. Digital storytelling can be described as a story about something significant in our life, we had better to use our imaginative. We can narrative it by using our images, music, and voice to draw the expression and character deeply. Some others say that this is an interesting work to do. Besides are the testimonial about the digital storytelling that Kirsty taught.

What rules that we must care are:
- point of the story, tells about the focus of the story what is really about
- dramatic question, is something that people will find out from the story
- emotional content, will deliver the truthful people to be honest, such as to be sad or happy
- the gift of our voice, is the type of tone: whispering or making loud
- the power of soundtrack, to represent of emotional story
- economy, we must make it effective in word (word cutting) and time (time limit)
- pacing, is the plot of story that running fast or slow

In my opinion, digital storytelling is very beneficial activity that can be brought for our department. It is due to the fact that in there, neither do the lecturer or students make digital story telling in their learning way. On the other hand, it is important that will make the learning becomes so active where everybody can share together. We also have to creative and are used to using multimedia system.
Before finishing the lesson, we asked to write hand our experience into stort telling draft, and here my writing result:
“Two days ago, I have gotten a message from my husband, telling me that my grandfather passed away. For a moment, I was very sad, I cried, and my friends came to cheer me. Well, I just felt that it was very short time that I met him in last Ed Mubarak last October and he was looked fine at all. One thing that I was really sorry is that I have not seen him during his sick until the day he passed away.
In the night, there is a seminar about ’Phsycology of Death’ in Konjen Sydney. I have got the message from the seminar, that once somebody passed away is the same as ‘back home’. We always happy if we can back home, and the death as well. We just think that we back for God who create us, back for home.. back for good..
I cannot continue this story since I have had different opinion about the death itself. I just think that when we lost our family who passed away, it is something that must be ignored, a nightmare because we still have so many sin to deal with next in the different nature. Well I do not any idea about that. However, it made me feel better in that day, I pray for my grandfather hope that he can back home in peace.”

(Friday, 12 Dec 2008)

Lecturer by : Kirsty Mc Geogh

Internationalisation of The Professoriate : A World Challenge

Today we described about Internationalization with Prof. Tony (Anthony Welch). Resumed from his lesson, internationalization comprises many facts includings student flows, staff mobility, interntionalization of curriculum, and administration. Internatinalization in here not only talked about curriculum but also academic staff that less well researched but becoming more important. In some countries, like China, programmes are often now developed to capture international student market, for example MBA Program that taught in English. At there, MoE mandated that 10% of courses should be taught in English, while incentives are being offered to staff who can teach in English. That is true, once we ready to be internationalized, staff must be educated internationally. That is why the word peripatteti comes up. Peripatetic is mobile teacher. In the Book 1 of Confucius Analects : To have schoolfellows come from distant states -is it not a pleasure?. Confusius himself moved around different parts of what s now China, with some of his students. It also having been known that several important philosophers and teachers, as well as key parts of mediaeval knowledge, came from the brightest still travel to Al Azhar (as they have for centuries).
However, The International Survey of The Academic Profession showed that more men then women gained the opportunity to work overseas. Men have larger opportunities in travelling and studying overseas. In East Asia, the pattern is much the same.
International research active staff who can teach in English will be in great demand, particularly from giant systems such as China and India. How about Indonesia? In my opinion, Indonesia has the same large opportunities as China and India. There have been so many staff studying abroad both men and women and being good professional staff. However, the system in Indonesia sometimes rather unsatisfying for staff t develop. For example, the salary of one lecturer in public university is just enough to live. No wonder if we see many lectures be peripatetic, taught more in private intitutes rather than in public institute. Yet, we still have broadly opportuunities in making our education internationally and Indonesia must support in this way since interntionalization becomes a profound change and challenge for the academic profession, worldwide in the global era. That is why it becomes our challenge to deal with.

(Tuesday, 2 Dec 2008)

Lecturer by : Prof. Anthony Welch