Reflection - Storytelling

Challenge & Selection    I believe that storytelling is definitely an advanced way to communicate, telling a good story,  it is like painting a picture with words. Does not matter if you have to use embellished and  improvised stories, or just facts, it all depend on who will be your audience, and what is your  goals. I selected storytelling because I currently work as an educator with kids, helping in  their education and I can see how kids are a great opportunity to try it, they need to be  motivated and inspired all the time, to have emotional capacity to face their responsibilities. I  am used to engage them to every activities we have to do, and also to stimulate their  imagination. But even that, sometimes still being a challenge to manage it. Every audience  have a different experience of life, a different goal, and especially, different perspective. So  for myself, the most important in this process, is to know and understand who is your  audience, learn about them and you will have success.    Application    I have applied my selection subject on my job with the kids, and it is not always a easy thing  to do. my process started picking a big jar and cutting some papers into small pieces. Then I  wrote random words in each piece of paper. For example, cat, princess, forest, bear, rain,  etc. Every day, they have to pick two or three pieces of paper and create a story with that  words, without let any other kid feel disinterested. How much more engaged the audience is,  more points the storyteller will get. Everything to make them use their imagination, they love  it! But this idea was just a tool for something else that we could work on. Our project made  us see a great opportunity to make books about those stories, to show to other kids how  everyone is capable, even children. We still working on the books, but the first step was  create topics with words and sentences that could catch kids attention, and they as an  audience and now as a storyteller, should have brainstorms between them. After all, I  understand so many tools and applications that I have used in my process.    Insight & Approach    I have learned that kids will easy believe in you, but won’t easily give you the attention. The  application idea with the jar project happened because they usually say that I am a good  storyteller, the insight made me show them how everyone could be a good storyteller too.  I think next time I could make different levels for different ages, find a way to make  something different when they feel that it is not exactly what they are looking for in a not  good mood day, also find a way to share with parents, social media, etc. But understand the  design thinking and all the tools, showed me that I could even use a different tool, for  example the learning launch. It is effectively and potencial with them, especially for the book  project, they need to learn how to launch their books. It is definitely an important tool for life,  not just for.

