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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