NEWS
NEWS
DIGICOM LEARNING GOES ON HIATUS
To our school administrators, donors, and digital storytelling teachers:
Today, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, our nation’s school districts are experiencing the economic reality of serious cuts, coupled with the financial challenges of safely reopening to deliver the most basic educational services.
Under these circumstances, we want you to know that DIGICOM Learning will not be able to deliver our program and services to teachers and students during the 2020-2021 school year.
As a 12-year partner of the Coachella Valley school systems, this is a deeply sad and disappointing announcement to make.
However, we’re proud the DIGICOM program has been in place for more than a decade, and that we’ve trained hundreds of teachers and thousands of students in digital storytelling. We believe that, together, we’ve all achieved the goal of integrating this contemporary learning tool into classrooms and curriculums, providing more effective education in the 21st century.
Moving forward, DIGICOM Learning will focus on new opportunities and methods for training educators in digital storytelling. The current crisis underscores the need for all of us to find engaging and meaningful ways to communicate through the use of technology.
Sharing our ideas, stories and lives through video is now more important than ever. We’ve always believed – and proven through research – that digital storytelling enables students to be more engaged in the classroom and to better understand and remember their lessons, all while participating in a process that encourages collaboration and fuels social-emotional growth.
This is what making short videos is all about.
Digital storytelling is still in its early stages, and as the next phase of educational strategies unfold, we’re confident that learning will be continually enhanced by making and sharing digital stories. This has always been the mission of DIGICOM Learning.
We’d like to thank all of you for your past and present support, and we look forward to keeping you informed of our future plans.
All the best,
David Vogel
Founder and CEO
DIGICOM Learning
To our school administrators, donors, and digital storytelling teachers:
Today, in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, our nation’s school districts are experiencing the economic reality of serious cuts, coupled with the financial challenges of safely reopening to deliver the most basic educational services.
Under these circumstances, we want you to know that DIGICOM Learning will not be able to deliver our program and services to teachers and students during the 2020-2021 school year.
As a 12-year partner of the Coachella Valley school systems, this is a deeply sad and disappointing announcement to make.
However, we’re proud the DIGICOM program has been in place for more than a decade, and that we’ve trained hundreds of teachers and thousands of students in digital storytelling. We believe that, together, we’ve all achieved the goal of integrating this contemporary learning tool into classrooms and curriculums, providing more effective education in the 21st century.
Moving forward, DIGICOM Learning will focus on new opportunities and methods for training educators in digital storytelling. The current crisis underscores the need for all of us to find engaging and meaningful ways to communicate through the use of technology.
Sharing our ideas, stories and lives through video is now more important than ever. We’ve always believed – and proven through research – that digital storytelling enables students to be more engaged in the classroom and to better understand and remember their lessons, all while participating in a process that encourages collaboration and fuels social-emotional growth.
This is what making short videos is all about.
Digital storytelling is still in its early stages, and as the next phase of educational strategies unfold, we’re confident that learning will be continually enhanced by making and sharing digital stories. This has always been the mission of DIGICOM Learning.
We’d like to thank all of you for your past and present support, and we look forward to keeping you informed of our future plans.
All the best,
David Vogel
Founder and CEO
DIGICOM Learning
SHARING STORIES AND
CHANGING LIVES
Attendees celebrate 12 years of
DIGICOM Learning
On November 14, 2019, DIGICOM Learning hosted a special VIP gathering at the Palm Springs Cultural Center in Palm Springs, California. The theme of the evening was Sharing Stories and Changing Lives, featuring a collection of short student videos that represent the DIGICOM digital storytelling program, founded nearly 12 years ago.
Community leaders, philanthropists and educators from the Coachella Valley attended the screening, which focused on the three pillars of the DIGICOM program: students’ schoolwork, lives, and the world around them.
If you missed the event, you can still watch the show! Just sit back, click and enjoy.
SHARING STORIES AND CHANGING LIVES
Attendees celebrate 12 years of
DIGICOM Learning
On November 14, 2019, DIGICOM Learning hosted a special VIP gathering at the Palm Springs Cultural Center in Palm Springs, California. The theme of the evening was Sharing Stories and Changing Lives, featuring a collection of short student videos that represent the DIGICOM digital storytelling program, founded nearly 12 years ago.
Community leaders, philanthropists and educators from the Coachella Valley attended the screening, which focused on the three pillars of the DIGICOM program: students’ schoolwork, lives, and the world around them.
If you missed the event, you can still watch the show! Just sit back, click and enjoy.
SHARING STORIES AND CHANGING LIVES
Attendees celebrate
12 years of
DIGICOM Learning
On November 14, 2019, DIGICOM Learning hosted a special VIP gathering at the Palm Springs Cultural Center in Palm Springs, California. The theme of the evening was Sharing Stories and Changing Lives, featuring a collection of short student videos that represent the DIGICOM digital storytelling program, founded nearly 12 years ago.
Community leaders, philanthropists and educators from the Coachella Valley attended the screening, which focused on the three pillars of the DIGICOM program: students’ schoolwork, lives, and the world around them.
If you missed the event, you can still watch the show! Just sit back, click and enjoy.
Event Slide Show
DIGICOM CEO/FOUNDER IS HONORED FOR HIS WORK IN EDUCATION
Palm Springs Life has selected David Vogel, CEO and founder of DIGICOM Learning, as one of 50 people on The Big List. Comprised of Coachella Valley influencers, The Big List highlights people “whose everyday work and decision-making impact the quality of life in Palm Springs and surrounding desert cities.”
Vogel was listed in the area of Education, along with Joel Kinnamon, superintendent and president of College of the Desert, and Jake Zhu, dean of California State University San Bernardino.
Formerly president of Walt Disney Motion Pictures, Vogel founded DIGICOM in 2008 as a way to improve K-12 learning through the art of digital storytelling. Today, instructors at DIGICOM Learning train teachers in digital storytelling and work with them side-by-side in classrooms throughout the Palm Springs, Desert Sands, and Coachella Valley school districts. DIGICOM also funds digital media after-school clubs and hosts two annual film festivals for students and teachers.
DIGICOM CEO/FOUNDER IS HONORED FOR HIS WORK IN EDUCATION
Palm Springs Life has selected David Vogel, CEO and founder of DIGICOM Learning, as one of 50 people on The Big List. Comprised of Coachella Valley influencers, The Big List highlights people “whose everyday work and decision-making impact the quality of life in Palm Springs and surrounding desert cities.”
Vogel was listed in the area of Education, along with Joel Kinnamon, superintendent and president of College of the Desert, and Jake Zhu, dean of California State University San Bernardino.
Formerly president of Walt Disney Motion Pictures, Vogel founded DIGICOM in 2008 as a way to improve K-12 learning through the art of digital storytelling. Today, instructors at DIGICOM Learning train teachers in digital storytelling and work with them side-by-side in classrooms throughout the Palm Springs, Desert Sands, and Coachella Valley school districts. DIGICOM also funds digital media after-school clubs and hosts two annual film festivals for students and teachers.