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Thursday, April 14, 2016

Digital Storytelling


Hello everyone!

   Not just kids but also teenagers, adults and even old people love stories. For example, is there anyone who does not know Little Red Riding Hood? Or is there anyone does not want to be a prince or just a character in a story?

   Then, what about using stories in our teaching? Moreover, what about using digital stories?

   Digital story can be described shortly as full-motion video with sound. It is mixture of images, graphics, music and author's own story voice.


   With the help of these stories, we can go beyond traditional storytelling and engage students in our topic.                                          

   As you see, our weekly topic is digital storytelling. In this project my partner was Ebru Hoşgör We were supposed to create our own fictional digital stories. Here is our steps;

1-We developed characters and wrote the script.

2-We recorded our voices.

3-We created our story parallel with our storyboard. Of course our draft was present but we used Autodesk Sketchbook Pro to draw pictures because of our bad drawings. We wanted to make it more qualified. So, after creating our story we drew main scenes of it. Hope you like our storyboard, too :)


4-We used Powtoon to make our story. Powtoon is a combination of presentation and animated cartoon. It is an online business presentation software tool that allows you to create free, cool, and awesome animated cartoons. The only thing you should do is just joining for free. And the rest is your creativity. When you join, you can achieve all tools that premium members have for 2 days.


5-Then finally we added our background music in Moviemaker.
We enjoyed during our project. Sometimes, creating scenes became problem and also arranging voices and musics accordingly, too. However, it was good.

Here is our story :)



And when we come my opinions about using digital storytelling in foreign language education: it is useful for all ages. If we want our students to create their own stories, we should support them with our help closely, if they are young. Especially for their thinking in target language and pronunciation, it is very effective. As a future teacher, I believe that it will be very fun both for me and my students to use digital stories.


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