interactive storytelling in classroom using ICT

Project Location

Country: 
Italy
City: 
Udine/Friuli Venezia Giulia

Organization

Organization Name: 
Liceo Coreutico Uccellis
Organization Type: 
School

Website

http://laproflaghigna.blogspot.co.at/2015/04/video-storytelling-by-3lco.html

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Consenso al trattamento dei dati personali
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I do authorize the FMD to the use of my personal data.

Project Type

Education up to 18 years

Project Description

Description Frase (max. 500 characters): 

Students learn to tell a story and communicate in English as a foreign language using a variety of 2.0 web tools. They first create a Tackk webpage to gather information about a famous celebrity of their choice and then a video fictional interview with the involvement of a peer.

Project Summary (max. 2000 characters): 

This video storytelling project was carried out with 11th grade students of a High School in Northern Italy. These students learn Classical Ballet & Modern Dance at school, along with more traditional academic subjects among which English as a Foreign Language. The project aimed at stimulating students' creativity and motivation to learn, by focussing on their priviledged learning style, which is definitely more of an aural-visual-chinaesthetic type rather than logical-rational.
Students created fictional interviews with their favourite dancers, singers, artists. All videos were uploaded on Edmodo and uTube
(see uTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjKx35VlMDof1PVtrnJk-PCKrqRCvHcSP)
By combining narrative with digital content and including their own images, sound and video, students were able to create a short movie with a strong emotional component. Moreover, working on a project helped students develop a wide range of communicative and cross-curriculum competences.

How long has your project been running?

2014-08-30 22:00:00

Objectives and Innovative Aspects

 
- Use the English language in known contexts, also beyond classroom walls
- Gather and reuse information in different ways using a variety of digital tools
- Use vocabulary related to jobs & professions, and personal past experiences
- Improve pronunciation, fluency & oracy
- Learn how to construct knowledge in a personally meaningful way
- Provide peers with quality feedback and comments on each other's work
Because of unreliable wifi connectivity and little IT available at school, only two iPads, a laptop and the students' own smartphones were used.
Methodology: Cooperative & Peer Learning through groupwork & pairwork; personalised learning, digital storytelling 
Students took turns on the two iPad available in class to create videos. They used their own smartphones to source and share digital material on the Internet, and to rehearse their interviews or listen with their ear-phones to the trial tracks recorded on their smartphones. 
Students could use a variety of digital tools, among which:
- Edmodo eLearning platform for sharing and posting digital resources.
- Text-to-speech option on the iPads or Google Translator for correct pronunciation.
- Spreaker podcasting tool to record all interviews.
- iMovie for the creation of the introductory trailers.
- Wevideo for video.
 

Results

Describe the results achieved by your project How do you measure (parameters) these. (max. 2000 characters): 
Video storytelling can have immense impact on students’ motivation to learn, which is essential in learning a foreign language. Italian students often find it difficult to communicate in the foreign language. Speaking activities in the classroom are often limited to a few drills or oral tests, because on the whole they are quite time-consuming. Moreover, students hesitantly take active part in class discussions. Telling a story through a video can give voice to all students. When given a chance to express their creativity and work in groups, students' motivation boosts and also their linguistic competence improves. This type of activity has helped students develop new skills with the help of technology. The use of a digital tool has helped them overcome the fear of speaking and has triggered their natural desire to express themselves and their creativity. The final goal of making a video to be shared with others was very motivating and facilitated inclusion in the class. Students could learn a lot also about themselves and their learning style. They could negotiate content, decide the working procedure, get things organised on a practical level and proved quite autonomous in their learning process. All students have significantly improved their pronunciation and fluency in the English language. The focus of the students' digital stories was mainly reflective and allowed them to incorporate background knowledge. All students had great fun in learning and changed their attitude also in other class activities. My role as a teacher in the classroom was essentially that of guiding and monitoring the various activities, helping students become more autonomous learners.
How many users interact with your project monthly and what are the preferred forms of interaction? (max. 500 characters): 

20

Sustainability

What is the full duration of your project (from beginning to end)?: 
Less than 1 year
What is the approximate total budget for your project (in Euro)?: 
Less than 10.000 Euro
What is the source of funding for your project?: 
Grants
Specify: 
11th year of a Classical Ballet and Contemporary Dance High School
Is your project economically self sufficient now?: 
No
Since when?: 
2015-06-29 22:00:00
When is it expected to become self-sufficient?: 
2015-08-30 22:00:00

Transferability

Has your project been replicated/adapted elsewhere?: 
No
What lessons can others learn from your project? (max. 1500 characters): 

Building a narrative and communicating it effectively requires the students to think carefully about the topic and consider the audience’s expectations. Moreover, it is of paramount importance in our digital world that students learn how to shift from mere digital content consumers to digital content creators. In few words, digital storytelling can facilitate across-curriculum teaching of 21st century skills, and in particular:
Critical Thinking
Communication
Personal Responsibility
Digital Literacy
Creativity
Collaboration

As such, Video Storytelling could be efficiently applied to almost any subject at school, because the digital stories can incorporate any type of content. Depending on the focus, a digital story can be instructional, persuasive, historical or reflective. In any case, telling a story through a video gives students the possibility to become active learners.

Video Storytelling can not only unleash students' creativity in class, but it can also prove very rewarding for the classroom teacher. Shifting from a teacher-centred approach to a more learner-centred one can help release tension and build up teamwork in the classroom. Moreover, the mandatory choice of Creative Commons images is an excellent lead-in activity to teach about responsibility and digital citizenship.

Are you available to help others to start or work on similar projects?: 
Yes

Background Information

Barriers and Solutions (max. 1000 characters): 
Merely of technical nature, because of low Internet connectivity. All solved by going BYOD.
Future plans and wish list (max. 750 characters): 
I would like to expand the project to include other classes for reciprocal feedback and peer-reviewing.
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Project Location

Country: 
Macedonia
City: 
Bitola

Organization

Organization Name: 
Individual citizen- teacher Vese Vesela Bogdanovic
Organization Type: 
Other
Specify: 
nowhere, only me...this is my volunteer work , I was never try to look for the money because I don't expect that my poor country could help me with money

Website

http://ucimenizigra.ucoz.com http://sitezazemjata.ucoz.com http://ekoedukacija.ucoz.com

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Consenso al trattamento dei dati personali
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Project Type

Education up to 10 years

Project Description

Description Frase (max. 500 characters): 

Video and teaching guides portal of interactive K12 education based on storytelling using ICT.

Project Summary (max. 2000 characters): 

This project presents best educational practices from the real classroom to the general community using video portal. In this way other teachers can learn novel techniques, parents can use this educational materials to learn together with their children, and pupils can prove that learning can be so much fun.

The best educational practices show how interactive techniques and storytelling in combination with free materials and ICT can create engaging learning environment applicable in different classrooms.

Showing How to combine technology with other teaching tools in work with little students.

The idea was born by me, Vesela Bogdanovic. I wanted to show that good educational practices and ICT are applicable to children in rural area at the same level (if not even better) as to the children that live in the urban area.

- I am the main contributor of the project today, but my work is supported by
Ministry of Education
Prime minister
President of R.Macedonia,
U.S. Embassy in Skopje
Department for development of Education in Macedinia,
Microsoft partners in learning-Macedonia
Friends of education
Association for educational and cultural initiatives Step By Step Macedonia
ISSA - International Step by Step Association
USAID Macedonia
Center for European Development and Integration
Kreativa-Serbia
Association of Citizen - Sumnal http://www.sumnal.mk/en/

By presenting this project teacher Vese Vesela was elected as one of the 50 best teachers in the world - Global Teacher Prize by Varkey Foundation

How long has your project been running?

2011-11-29 23:00:00

Objectives and Innovative Aspects

This project offer solutions, techniques, and methods that describe how to use creative ideas and deploy them using interdisciplinary activities, free materials and ICT in order to establish cross discipline education of small children. Using video portals, we show true examples of our educational practice, explain how to accomplish quality and successful interaction between the teacher and the pupils and the pupils with one another.
Our examples represent proven, healthy, successful ways of combining technology with all other educational methods, teaching tools and techniques- We proved that children using ICT can bring wonderful effects in terms of achieving goals in all school subjects.

We proved that even small children can collaborate, explore, create and direct the educational process. They can create even though they can’t read and write.
We are here not only to encourage teachers to collaborate, exchange materials and ideas, accept and adjust to the contemporary trends, but also
to give parents a chance have an insight in the work of their children through video recordings of their activities.

Thanks to the Internet even younger children (3-5) that live in rural areas where’s no kindergartens can learn with their parents from home. Children in hospitals can see our educational materials and learn.

Results

Describe the results achieved by your project How do you measure (parameters) these. (max. 2000 characters): 
- The project has been presented over 20 times on Macedonian National Television and NEWS, and over 50 times on newspapers in country and other countries.. still going on - The project has been supported by the ministry of Education, Prime Minister and President of R.Macedonia…… - The project leader has been selected as one of the top 50 candidate for Global teacher prize - First State Prize of PEP and UDAID Film Festival in Skopje movie - HOW CHILDREN MAKE A BIRD'S NEST - First Prize in the National Competition for the film -Macedoine pays de mes reves- Macedonia and second prize in the same competition for the website . -First - place at international education film festival in Serbia, Mionica - - Presenting on the International event Kreative School- in Banja Vrujci – Serbia since 2011 to today - Presentation on the International Conference of Educators in Sarajevo in 2013 and 2014 at the invitation of the Foundation for cultural and educational initiatives Steb By Step - Macedonian Microsoft Ekspert 2014 – Presenting Macedonia at Global Forum Braselona - Teacher mentor and trainer for other tecahers in our country supported by USAID and Ministry of edycation
How many users interact with your project monthly and what are the preferred forms of interaction? (max. 500 characters): 

Every day i cooperate with many teachers, parents and students. I cooperate through social networks with near 9000 teachers from my country, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Germany....
How I use social media:
Facebook, my web pages and blogs to share activities with the world
-WindowsLive Mail, Gmail exchange of materials and collaboration with colleagues
-Skype the implementation of online classes with other students and colleagues in remote locations.
-Google + Hengout for online classes available to the widest audience
(There are many preschool children who are living in villages where there are no kindergartens and I think if they follow our activities on the Internet they could learn together with )
We present how to combine technology and other teaching techniques and methods in classroom so that school is more pleasant and more magical.This is an encyclopedia of fun and educational content.

Sustainability

What is the full duration of your project (from beginning to end)?: 
More than 6 years
What is the approximate total budget for your project (in Euro)?: 
Less than 10.000 Euro
What is the source of funding for your project?: 
Other
Specify: 
Individual citizen
Is your project economically self sufficient now?: 
Yes
Since when?: 
2011-11-29 23:00:00

Transferability

Has your project been replicated/adapted elsewhere?: 
Yes
Where? By whom?: 
Microsoft Global Forum Barselona 2013- By Me, Global Teachr Prize 2014 -By me
What lessons can others learn from your project? (max. 1500 characters): 

This project offer solutions, techniques, and methods that describe how to use creative ideas and deploy them using interdisciplinary activities, free materials and ICT in order to establish cross discipline education of small children.
Using video portals, we show true examples of our educational practice, explain how to accomplish quality and successful interaction between the teacher and the pupils and the pupils with one another.
Our examples represent proven, healthy, successful ways of combining technology with all other educational methods, teaching tools and techniques- We proved that children using ICT can bring wonderful effects in terms of achieving goals in all school subjects.

Are you available to help others to start or work on similar projects?: 
Yes

Background Information

Barriers and Solutions (max. 1000 characters): 
The project so far is done or strictly voluntary basis. Although the project is supported by all relevant national educational policy makers, and general community, and the project do not need significant funding, its continuation is really directly related with the enthusiasm of its main contributor. In order for project to grow, and wider its impact it has to be financial self-sustainable. For that purpose initial funding for developing facilities which will bring possibility for commercialization of some services offered by the project is needed. Another possibility is to further develop this project in a for of TV broadcast that can have income from commercials
Future plans and wish list (max. 750 characters): 
The project can grow in two directions: The first one is building of the rural facility that can accommodate pupils from different schools (for certain fee) which will enable them to learn and interact with each other during the schools excursions. The second one is to produce the education TV program and share part of he commercial income.
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