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51.0 Digital Storytelling with Zeboniso Murodova Sabzalievna **FULL EPISODE**

A Virtual TESOL 2021 Convention presenter, Zeboniso Murodova, shared "Tajik Voices" with digital stories from Tajikistan. In this episode, she shares her personal and professional experiences creating her own digital story and then teaching her students the process of digital storytelling. Both the process and student successes are highlighted in this episode. She explains how she was able to teach her students how to become digital storytellers using Zoom. She led 5 girls on a journey to create and share their personal narratives through English digital stories.

Zeboniso also relates how she was inspired to use traditional folktales and had students translate them from their mother tongue to English. This helped them explore grammar differences. She used students' strengths to help make this storytelling experience an inclusive group project. She and her students then shared these translated folktales with students from other cultures. These students used speaking, writing, and listening skills throughout the project.

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Ms. Murodova has 17 years of teaching experience with 5-11th grade students. She has attended and presented presentations at a number of educational conferences, workshops, and trainings at the local, regional, state, and international levels, including CATEC, TESOL, and IEARN. Ms. Murodova has participated in two U.S. State Department programs, TEA (Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program 2009) and Fulbright FLTA 2011-2012. Since 2010, she is the recipient of four USG alumni small grants to implement social projects on youth empowerment and women's leadership. Her exchange program changed her life. After her exchange experience, she stepped out and believed she could be anyone she wanted. In 2020 she was awarded The Alumni of the Year 2020, by the U.S. Embassy in Dushanbe. From 2016-2020 she was an Access English teacher. One of her best achievements while leading an Access program was when she collaborated with Fulbright Scholar Jode Brexa on a Digital Storytelling project. They taught five Access girls how to make digital stories. The digital storytelling team presented a presentation at the 2021 Virtual TESOL Convention. Their topic was Tajik Voices: Resilience through Digital Storytelling. Currently, she is the coordinator of the Resource Center at Bokhtar State University.