PHOTO BY HIPS/WILL KIRK

Armed with digital cameras, scanners, music CDs, audio recording hardware, editing software and more, students in the Homewood schools learned to put a technological spin on the age-old art of storytelling. Their one-credit class was offered during intersession through the Digital Media Center, whose director, Joan Freedman, came up with the idea as a way to introduce undergrads to the technology available to them in her Mattin Center facility. Above, Jack Funk uses digital recording devices to create an oral history of his great uncle; assisting him is Amanuel Alemu.

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