Reflection

Storytelling Challenge and Selection :

What is storytelling? You want to capture your audience attention. Why don’t you tell them stories any  kind of stories head dramatic educational stories. What kind of stories? Each story which enhances their  imagination creativity inspiration. Why should you create stories for your audience? Because it's a  different form of teaching and learning stories have in general context and also give possibilities for very  individual interpretation and they stimulate emotions reflection and we use metaphors, memories  narration. In each story we introduce a hero, a main plot and a dramatic question provoking the  audience to innovative thinking and engagement stories allow presenting a difficult and boring content  in an easy see form good story is also showing a new plot in different life situations and how is it with  you do you Like to listen to stories we invite you to explore the method of storytelling and digital  storytelling.

What is digital storytelling ? How to express ourselves by stories? Does modern technology give a good  support the digital storytelling course will help you to produce the stories more interactively. How does  it work? it's a form of storytelling using a variety of multimedia tools including tools as photography  slides soundtrack your voice subtitles a short video calling is a result of combining different media  elements into a coherent story The presentations are short but attractive they stimulate the senses and  imagination and are suitable for different learning styles why is it good to use the method knowing is  not something new people have been telling stories for thousands of years to exchange Knowledge  motivate and evoke pagination examples are the biblical parables myths fairy tales legends What is  attractive in using storytelling and digital story tell The method increases interest attention and  motivation of the digital generation of students in a classroom those hidden talents of students start to  explore their own stories and present them to others it develops communication skills posing questions  expressing opinions preparing reports and writing for a specific audience the digital storytelling method  develops computer skills and supports using technologies combining different media students publish  their projects on the Internet and the others can read them and add comments research results.

Insight and Approach:

Effective and attractive storytelling is as a method unfortunately the research conducted this year in  seven European countries revealed that 1/3 of teachers trainers and educators didn’t know what  storytelling was knowledge of digital storytelling was even worse 2/3 admitted they had never even  heard of digital storytelling as you can see for now storytelling isn’t popular in Europe majority of the  study sample expressed their interest in this method more than 90% wants to learn how to use digital  storytelling this means that there is a great demand for training in this area the story project and here  comes our project storytelling applied to training or it’s shorter name T story the project is Co financed  by the European Union program, T story’s goal is to complete the mission an international consortium  composed of seven component institutions was created consisting of Italy Portugal Romania Greece  Poland the Netherlands and Spain what makes our project different and innovative history is the answer  for the real needs of present day education recent economic technological and socio demographic

developments said new challenges and opportunities for education system in Europe needs to be  redesigned schools universities and training centers must integrate ICT Anna learner centered attitude  in process tistory project up to achieve this goal another innovative point is the universality of the  course the project’s product will be useful for teachers trainers and educators from all types of  education and training entities on all levels education in all groups of learners the digital course the  digital storytelling course will be the main product of our project the course will teach you how to give  lessons or training to your students through digital storytelling the digital course will teach not only the  methods themselves but also ICT skills like making a short movie producing a simple animation creating  your own digital stories you will get concrete tips as we will also include practical examples of how to  use storytelling in different areas of training for education we need you to create your own story step by  step we want you not only to learn the methods but also to have fun while learning that's why you'll  learn storytelling through storytelling as the digital course will be developed by the storytelling.

