Digital storytelling: A tool for social connectedness.
This participatory-action research recruited college students from various academic disciplines to design and implement an intergenerational storytelling project. This research used digital storytelling (DS) as a mechanism for social connectedness with older adults. After training students in the DS...
| Publicado en: | Gerontechnology Vol. 16; no. 1; pp. 56 - 62 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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International Society for Gerontechnology
2017
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