Technology have been continuing to develop day by day in every area. Thanks to the advanced technology, it is possible to listen and watch stories on your computer or another mobile devices via internet. This development can be used in education,too. One of these developing opportunities is what we call digital stories which can be defined as multimedia movies that combine music, photos, video, text and a narrative voice. Digital storytelling also allows you to share your life story, an incident, an episode or an event, through digital media production.
The task of this week was to create a digital story as you guessed it. We had three options which were as follows:
1. What it means to be good friends?
2. How to project
3. Creating a fictional story
In this project, i worked with my partner Şule and we choose creating a fictional story. Our story is called '' Animals In The Park '' and it is about a mother and her little daughter who start to learn animals. About the animation-making process, we used Powtoon which is an online tool for making animations. It is simple to use and you can create animations which you want according to your creativity and imagination. The website provides a short tutorial but to summarize; on the right there are library, backgrounds, sounds, images, text etc. that you can add to your animation and you can relocate and resize them. We made animations with this website, but we audio recorded our story with a mobile phone, we made the animation with Powtoon and we put them together with Windows Movie Maker. The website was free for only two days, so our time was limited. But we try to make our first animation with the best way in a short time.
Digital stories can be used to improve student's learning through multimedia in the modern classrooms. Thanks to these stories, an enjoyable way of learning and teaching can be created. Students can create their own stories, using the topics given by the teacher. I think it is really beneficial in terms of developing some certain skills in English as well as learning how to use technology as a means of learning English and i think i can use this method in my class in the future.
Our digital story is here. I hope you will spend funny time. Thank you for reading my post and watching our digital story .
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