Our new task is to create a Digital Storytelling Project. Firstly I want to mention about what it is. Digital Storytelling means a short form of digital media production that allows everyday people to share aspects of their story. It entered our lives with technology and became a useful device for education. Today, Teachers can incorporate digital storytelling into their instruction to make learning entertaining and make their students engage in learning activities. I shared this task with my partner Buse Nur Bozkurt. We had some options for the project. We chose to create a fictional story, because we believed we could also improve our creativity in this way. We used Storymaker to create our story because it facilitates lots of opportunities in terms of using different colours and varied images.
We wanted to create a story which may be beneficial to learners in terms of learning how to use an English pattern in a sentence. We wrote a short story. We created the characters and the scenes in the website, and then we added our voices into the story. Finally we made them combine by the means of Movie Maker.
The story's name is "Julia's Secret Ability". It is about 2 minutes. It's main character is a girl called "Julia". She tries to discover her abilities in the story. We wrote the story for primary and secondary students. The story has some purposes. It aims to teach students how to use "can/can't" in a sentence. It also aims to make students have an implication from the story about life.
In the process, we had some difficulties. For example, we wanted to make characters move but we couldn't. In addition to this, we had a difficulty in vocalizing it because we had to find a silent place to vocalize it. Luckily we could overcome this problem and vocalize it but it took some because we thought that we shouldn't make a mistake about pronounciation and also we should use the right tone of our voices so that we can grab learner's attention. Therefore we had to record our voices again and again.
Although we had some difficulties in the process, we were happy at the end of the process because we learned to use a device which may make us advantageous in our professional lives in the future. I think Digital Storytelling is beneficial to both teachers and students. It enables teacher to grab students' attention more easily and enables students to improve their writing, reading, listening and speaking skills and it also enhances creativity.
This is our story. I hope you will enjoy it :)
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