Create Native Language Print Materials

Upcoming Workshops*

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Desktop Publishing is a creative and invaluable way of incorporating Native Language into everyday teaching materials. Where there are no materials in the Native Language, create your own.

This four-day training workshop at ILI's Technology Learning Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico provides participants with computer and multimedia technology skills to create materials in print in the Native languages such as: storybooks, flash cards, brochures, calendars, newsletters, business cards, stationary, posters, flyers, visual aids for classrooms, etc.

Instructors provide hands on training on the following technology skills:

1. Languagegeek Native language keyboards and fonts using Unicode universal font encodings
2. Microsoft Publisher features to produce dynamic print materials
3. Scanning technology to add locally created and culturally appropriate images (e.g. artwork, photos, drawings or illustrations) to accompany Native text and stories
4. Audio recording and editing in the Audio Studio to create “audio books” (CDs) to accompany the print materials

Create A Native Language Digital Story

Windows MovieMaker or Mac iMovie

“Digital Storytelling” is an emerging term, one that arises from a grassroots movement that uses new digital tools to help ordinary people tell their own 'true stories' in a compelling and emotionally engaging form. These stories usually take the form of a relatively short story (less than 8 minutes) and can involve interactivity.”

—Wikipedia definition

Upcoming “Digital Stories” Workshops

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Digital Storytelling is a modern way to express the ancient art of storytelling by weaving your Native Language, images, music and voice narration together.

This four-day training workshop at ILI's Technology Learning Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico provides participants with computer and multimedia technology skills to create short (3-5 minute) audiovisual stories in the Native languages using a computer. Workshops are offered in either Windows or Mac platforms. Participants bring a story they want to tell incorporating visual materials (e.g. photos, artwork or small video clips) and audio materials in the Native Language (e.g. songs, music or narration).

Instructors provide hands on training on the following technology skills:

1. Photo/Graphics software – GIMP, Photoshop
2. Movie editing software – MovieMaker or iMovie
3. Audio software – Audacity
4. Media Players – MP3, iPod or iTouch
5. Scanning technology to add images to accompany audio content

Workshop History

These workshops have been conducted in various native communities throughout the United States and have reached out to over 170 Native Language communities and over 2000 individuals to date.

Previous IBM Sponsored Regional Workshops

• Spring 2008: Storytelling with Technology held at Bellevue Community College, Bellevue, Washington.
• Fall 2007: Storytelling with Technology held at Winona State University, Minnesota.
• Spring 2007: Storytelling with Technology hosted by the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Hollywood, Florida
• Fall 2006: Storytelling with Technology hosted by the Cherokee Nation, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
• Spring 2006: Storytelling with Technology hosted by the Oneida Nation, Oneida, Wisconsin
• Fall 2005: Storytelling with Technology hosted by the Pojoaque Pueblo, Pojoaque, New Mexico
• Spring 2005: Storytelling with Technology hosted by the Pojoaque Pueblo, Pojoaque, New Mexico

The ILI Regional Tech-Knowledge Workshops were made possible thanks to our partnership with IBM. IBM has been instrumental in funding the Storytelling with Technology workshops since 2005.