A Picture is Worth 1000 words: Integrating Photo Narration into your SoTL Practice
Abstract
Photo narration (and closely related practices such as photo story, photo voice, and photo elicitation) is a practice in which you have a student (or group of students) take photos of a given subject and provide narrated commentary on those photos. Instructors have used photo narration as a tool for fostering outcomes such as intercultural communication, inclusion and belonging, conceptual understanding, and more. Qualitative researchers have used the same artifacts to gain insights into the learning and meaning-making that is reflected in them. Across the workshop, participants will engage in a collaborative photo narration miniproject that will serve as the basis for designing a photo narration assignment and/or research study of their own. Please note that this approach works across all disciplines---you do not need to have a background in the arts or visual analysis to integrate photo narration into your teaching and research practice.
Location
Scarbrough Three
Publication Type and Release Option
Image (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Grodziak, Eileen and Cruz, Laura, "A Picture is Worth 1000 words: Integrating Photo Narration into your SoTL Practice" (2024). SoTL Commons Conference. 77.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sotlcommons/SoTL/2026/77
A Picture is Worth 1000 words: Integrating Photo Narration into your SoTL Practice
Scarbrough Three
Photo narration (and closely related practices such as photo story, photo voice, and photo elicitation) is a practice in which you have a student (or group of students) take photos of a given subject and provide narrated commentary on those photos. Instructors have used photo narration as a tool for fostering outcomes such as intercultural communication, inclusion and belonging, conceptual understanding, and more. Qualitative researchers have used the same artifacts to gain insights into the learning and meaning-making that is reflected in them. Across the workshop, participants will engage in a collaborative photo narration miniproject that will serve as the basis for designing a photo narration assignment and/or research study of their own. Please note that this approach works across all disciplines---you do not need to have a background in the arts or visual analysis to integrate photo narration into your teaching and research practice.
