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Telling Stories from the Teaching Trenches with Amie Charney
September 14 @ 9:00 am - 3:30 pm CDT
$140Dates: Saturday, September 14, 2024, 9am-3:30pm CST (with a 30 minute boxed lunch), in-person at Gemini Ink
Instructor: Amie Charney
Nonmember: $140; Member: $120; Student/Educator/Mil $75
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Hilarious, cringe, nightmarish, heartwarming, inspiring–these are just some words teachers might use to describe their experiences in the classroom. Every educator has an interesting story to tell about teaching, and we want to help you tell it!
In this one-day storytelling workshop for educators of all backgrounds and experience, we will follow The Moth model of storytelling to script and tell our own creative nonfiction stories. We will then use podcasting technology to record our tales from the teaching trenches.
We will share practical ways to pair storytelling and podcasting as a fun and effective learning tool in the classroom and across the curriculum. This course is open to educators of all kinds and skill levels, 18+.
Students will leave this workshop with:
- A draft of creative nonfiction work
- Hands on experience using podcasting equipment
- Ideas for how to incorporate storytelling and podcasting into the classroom environment
Amie Charney is a screenwriter who lives in San Antonio, Texas. She has a BA in Literature from California State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California Riverside Palm Desert. She is the current Director of Creative Writing for the Northeast School of the Arts. Her work can be found in literary journals such as Southern Missouri Press Journal Proud to Be, As You Were, Oh! Cat!, High Country Magazine, and others. Amie is the inaugural recipient of the Harlequin Creator Fund for Television Writing and is currently developing a new television show with eOne and Harlequin. She’s the wife of a pilot, mother of two fantastic young adults (both Aggies), and a proud Marine Corps wife! She was recently featured in Script Magazine and the Harlequin Creator Space, as well as San Antonio Magazine.
