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Learner Digital Stories in a Web 2.0 Age by Ghinwa Alameen - Coggle Diagram
Learner Digital Stories in a Web 2.0 Age by Ghinwa Alameen
Digital Storytelling
allows people to share personal and cultural stories and perspectives in unique ways
allows learners to use personal artifacts and a variety of multimedia tools to narrate their story, describing and sharing with others significant life events in an innovative way
allows students to write drafts and have a peer check
Creating the digital story is conventionally done using video editing software such as iMovie or MovieMaker
Finally, students share their digital productions with one another or publish them online for the whole world to see
VoiceThread
VoiceThread is a Web 2.0 application that centers on collaborative conversations around digital images, documents, videos, or any combination of the three.
It has commenting feature in which Users can leave comments in various ways: voice, using their computer’s microphone or a phone; a movie from a webcam; text; and a doodling tool
the feature of capturing full discussions on a single page displays a visual representation of the whole conversation rather than stretching through a long text chat thread
Effectiveness of Digital Stories in Educational Settings
Digital story supports student learning and higher order thinking
It is found to be an important tool for the improvement of student writing, language, and literacy skills
Digital storytelling acts as a motivator to sustain student engagement throughout the project
Struggling writers may feel more comfortable and motivated using digital tools because these learners are more comfortable using multiliteracies.
Multimedia/multiliteracy projects not only address different learning styles and modalities, but also help students collabora- tively construct knowledge and become active learners.
Project
Objectives
Engage learners with multiliteracies, and allow them to express themselves with different media by creating online digital stories.
Develop a digital story element
Encourage collaborative learning by asking questions, expressing opinions, narrating a story, and writing for a real audience, which creates opportunities for authentic feedback
Increase students’ electronic skills using an online application that combines a variety of multimedia such as text, still images, audio, and video.
Raise awareness of copyright.
Description
Participants are 48 undergraduate Chinese and Korean nonnative speakers of English
they created a digital story about certain events that affected their life or the life of someone they knew
Students:
brainstrormed ideas for their projects
after prewriting, they started writing script of their stories
created slideshows about the topic
used photos, artcrafts...
after creating stories in Voicethread, they shared stories with classmates and teachers
they commented on each others' stories
Assessment: rubric was developed including these:
Material
Images and voice
organisation
Expression
VoiceThread discussion
Correctness
Conclusion
Web 2.0 digital stories provide a place for learners to share and discuss their experiences and culture
Web 2.0 digital stories offer an enjoyable and interactive way to achieve multiple language learning goals in a learner-centered environment