Kathie Jackson
Career Advisor, College of Business, URI
Per Course Instructor, URI, RWU
kajackson@uri.edu or kathleen.jackson.2000@gmail.com
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Building professional relationships and creating collaborative courses;
Creating narrative through story
Career advising
Creating "any time" course curriculum for team. The pro's and con's of a common syllabus
We All Have a Story to Tell...
The challenges:
Everyone loves to listen to stories. And, I am a firm believer that everyone has a story to tell.
I am especially interested in capturing the stories of the elders in our society. So often individuals lose their "place in society" once they stop working. They simply become that sweet lady or nice man. Too often I have read an obituary of someone I knew as that sweet or nice person only to find out they had amazing lives that should have been shared. Each person's life has some special element and story to tell if only someone will listen.
Families want the stories captured. So the challenges? How to reach the families and organizations, and help our elders understand that we want to hear their stories.
Essential questions:
How do I move from a concept to a product?
How will I make contact with potential story tellers/sharers?
How will the process evolve? Introductory meeting?
How will I determine which questions to ask?
How will I conduct the interviews? Will I provide them with questions in advance?
How long will the interviews/stories be?
How will I curate the story? What is the deliverable?
Where will the original live?
What will the compensation structure be?
Growth Opportunities
Connect elders to different school/youth groups to share stories
Partner with schools to have students capture the stories and do the digital work (Recommendation from Mari and also reflected with work done by URI's Harrington School, capturing the stories of WWII Veterans).
Action Plan:
Action step 1 Select 5 individuals and capture their stories before the end of 2021.
Action step 2 Have story tellers and their families reflect on "what worked" and "what could be improved.
Action step 3 Tweak Legacies and the capture process before further implementation.
Project development
Legacies II: I Would Love to Hear Your Story!
Tier 2 Project: Legacies.
Legacies was my Tier 2 project, an outline for how and why I wanted to capture the stories of the elders in our communities. My Tier 3 work expands on this project - an inquiry on how to engage and encourage the elders' to share their stories.
Tier 3 Project: Legacies - Soft Start
Five Why's
Why would someone agree to share his/her life story with me?
Why would someone be unhesitant to share one's story?
How Might I ...
How might I move from concept to product?
How might I elicit trust?
How might I share the creation and capture process?
How might this program enhance my community?
How might I move this project from "me" to "we."
Acknowledgements:
To Renee, Julie and Charlie who have provided me with the space to learn, to grow, to share.
To Yonty who has shared his expertise in higher ed and his course content with me.
To Frank for being my dyad partner during Tier I when I couldn't find one, and for being a partner in collaboration moving forward.
Finally to all those who have trusted me with their stories and to those who will share their stories with me in the future. We all have a story - many stories - to tell.