Digital Story Telling

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Yess! here is a new age on English Language Teaching and learning. One more step for a productive and a supplier education. I have one more an amazing material here you can use for your pedagogic puposes in a classroom which is ‘’Digital story telling’’ . So now, let me tell about it!

Digital story telling is a kind of  a short  form of digital media production  that allows individuals to tell  a story or present an idea. This media production also includes digital effects equivalent of film techniques like full-motion video with sound,animation,stills and audio.And  This week we have done a digital story telling project of our own  with my fellow worker  Merve Kuru. I can say that  It was really a  different and entertaining endeavor . We also think that it is extremely educational. Before mentioning  about its educational benefits  i want to tell how a process we have followed on creating a digital story telling and what was the difficulties on preparing  such a project.

First of all we had to find an animation video maker program to implement our story on.After a research on the internet we have diceded to use the program called Animaker. Click here if you’d like to visit the program. Aniamker is an online animated video making platform which is so simple to use. It has all the tools you need for an animation film (like carachters,objects,sounds, musics,frames movement tools, facial expression choices, scenes and so on). Seeing that it had all the things we needed for our story on our minds too, we began to develop our  story named as ‘’Miranda’s Christmas Party’’ . In addition we have created our voice recordings which were needed for the dialogs in the film.  The program has an tutorial video ehen you firstiy enter on it. Because we have watched it beforehand, it was  so pretty easy to create the scnenes, record or upload the sounds, set the motions and the music.  This was also the thing made the working so enjoyable actually.

  

It was first time we had experienced such an activation.And i can say that we got shocked more and more on each step where we had done some applications on the program. There was a super technology there making all the implementations easier, inspiring the user and of course providing an entertaining cooperation with your fellow worker.  Preparing the project with a co-worker was also another thing that made the working so enjoyable and easy actually. Most probobly it would be a kind of boring workind if i had had to prepare my project on my own. So i believe that even if it will be tasked, it should be done cooperatively. So, here is our digital story telling video below if you’d like to watch;

When it comes to the difficulties we had while creating this project; the most challenging part of the task was just completing some little details on the video like timing the speakers’ sound, music,object effects and applying some motions and synchronisation of the several sounds on the same scene etc. It was troublesome a little bit but of course was soluble with a cooperation as well.

So, As a result, i can say that using such a task for your educational purposes in your classrooms can be extremely fruitful.It is a greatly educational task in terms of making the students learn to cooperate, using technology, learn to create an English dialog and pronounce this kind of conversations. And because of  its English context, It can also enable them to learn more vocabularies while using the program. You can either make them use this kind of program or  have them watch your video you created yourself to provide an entertaining English listening practice in classroom. J