Texas Tech Storytelling
posted in digitalstorytelling |Texas Tech University is hosting a digital storytelling contest that is pretty ingenious, I think. To help “tell the stories” of how people have been positively impacted by their university experiences, they are inviting anyone to submit their own digital stories about their experiences at TTU. This is the introductory text for the contest website:
Story-telling is as old as the Texas hills. Think of Native Americans carving pictographs into the mountains, cowboys sitting around a campfire listening to a good yarn, or modern-day families watching a favorite drama on television. The narrative power of stories binds us together as a community and culture.
We want your story for a new campaign to tell the Texas Tech story across the nation. We thought a contest would be an engaging way to gather stories from throughout the Texas Tech family. Any well-told story about Texas Tech consistent with the theme of From here, it’s possible is eligible for this contest. Entries must be created by a student, alumnus/a, or former or current faculty or staff from Texas Tech University, the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center or former or current staff of the Texas Tech University System.
From PR as well as accreditation standpoints I think this is visionary and forward-looking. All educational institutions should be seeking to better “tell their story” to a variety of constituents. Having a contest like this is a great idea and mechanism for obtaining more digital stories to share.
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