Are you interested in presenting aspects of your scholarly or creative work using your South Asian language? In this workshop we will learn about making creative video resources for teaching across the humanities and social sciences, toward promoting collaborative,
creative pedagogies and intercultural understanding, linking languages with lived experiences.
Friday, April 12
1:30 pm
Kuykendall 106
Facilitators: Sai Bhatewadekar, Anna Stirr
Registration through the Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE) – Coming Soon!
Are you interested in presenting aspects of your scholarly or creative work using your South Asian language? In this workshop we will learn about making creative video resources for teaching across the humanities and social sciences, toward promoting collaborative,
creative pedagogies and intercultural understanding, linking languages with lived experiences.
We teach South Asian languages, interdisciplinary South Asian studies, and utilize examples from South Asia in topical courses beyond language and area studies. Integrating digital storytelling methods into our teaching and highlighting South Asian languages through our digital stories can add an exciting new dimension to our classrooms. While addressing the issues we study in our research and approach through our creative work, it can also highlight the languages in which we live much of our lives, giving students the chance to experience their sounds and cultural associations.
In this workshop we will explore ways to create videos highlighting aspects of our own research, or topics of importance to us, in the South Asian languages that we speak. Videos may include short films, video interviews, narratives, conversations, short conference-style presentations, and more. We will gain the skills to create these videos, and associated materials from subtitles and transcripts to lesson plans, as open access resources to be used in advanced language classes and across the social sciences and humanities.
Those who teach languages or areas other than South Asia are welcome; the techniques and models addressed in this workshop will be applicable to your classes as well.
The workshop will be held directly following the CSAS Spring Symposium on South Asian Futures. Symposium participants are all invited to participate. Again, registration information is coming soon.
This workshop is part of the UISFL-supported project, “Hindi, Urdu Language Learning and South Asian Studies: Innovating an Interdisciplinary Curriculum with Digital Storytelling” (Sai Bhatawadekar, Project Director, with Anna Stirr and Azeema Faizunissa)