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I'd like to invite you to visit my new blog.  My idea is to create a funny blog with jokes, puns, riddles and funny videos. I hope that you like it.

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I'd like to invite you to visit my new blog.  My idea is to create a funny blog with jokes, puns, riddles and funny videos. I hope that you like it.

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Óscar Millán Vivancos

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My idea is to create a funny blog, with jokes, riddles, puns, little stories...

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Here I share my blog ;)

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Hi! I know I'm late... but I'll try to catch you up! :)

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Hi! I know I'm late... but I'll try to catch you up! :)

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Here you have the link to my blog. See you soon! :)

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For this modul, I have used CREAZA to create a comic and VOKI to give the students the instructions of what they have to do next.

The idea is to create a comic all together, so I have created the characters and the setting and now they have to decide how the story will end.

Here is the link to the VOKI

And here is the COMIC

Both tools are very useful to use with the students, I already knew voki and I have use it sometimes in class, students love it, they love the robotic voices. However, it was the first time I created a comic. I have enjoyed using this tool (CREAZA) and it is actually really easy to manage.

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For this modul, I have used CREAZA to create a comic and VOKI to give the students the instructions of what they have to do next. The idea is to create a comic all together, so I have created the characters and the setting and now they have to decide how the story will end.

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Xisca Prats.Hello everyone! I would like to share my blog with all of you :) 

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Xisca Prats.Hello everyone! I would like to share my blog with all of you :) 

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http://xpratsenglish.blogspot.it/

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http://imagineandshare.blogspot.com.es

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Module 1

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This blog is aimed to tell any kind of story in English.

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Hello Caterina and mates! I don't have much experience in this topic, so I hope to learn a lot with all of you!

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Hello Caterina and mates! I don't have much experience in this topic, so I hope to learn a lot with all of you!

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This is the link to my new and first blog :-)

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MODULE 1
What is Storytelling?
As in a recipe, stories have many different ingredients that make them special: fantasy, imagination, humour, feelings, a wide view of the world, knowledge of other cultures, traditions, the past, legends... Stories have always been a way to enrich our lives and open our minds. Through stories we can have fun, learn, get relaxed, motivated...

Why Digital Storytelling in class?
The combination of a good story, images and sound has the power to attract the attention of the audience in such a way that everyone gets into it. Today, new technologies allow us to use stories in many ways, so it is good to take advantage of it and include storytelling as a useful tool in the classroom.
Expectations and goals with this course.
I am very excited about this course and I expect to learn a lot by sharing ideas with other teachers who have the same need as I have to use storytelling in the classroom. It is the first time I do a course about this topic, so I hope the experience is great!

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MODULE 1 What is Storytelling? As in a recipe, stories have many different ingredients that make them special: fantasy, imagination, humour, feelings, a wide view of the world, knowledge of other cultures, traditions, the past, legends... Stories have always been a way to enrich our lives and open our minds.

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Hi Caterina and collegues! I´m Sergio Picarzo - a bachelor in Arts graduated in English language and literature. 

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Hi Caterina and collegues! I´m Sergio Picarzo - a bachelor in Arts graduated in English language and literature. 

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I´m into new technologies and especially ICT applied to language teaching. It´s impressive to see how language techniques and methodologies are changing thanks to digital resourses and apps. I hope to enjoy this course and have some new ideas to bring to my teens!

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The final task is based on creating a story and transforming it into a video. The task is ´Students decide whether they are going to create The first choice is to access ´The other choice is to register at Planning
individual` or ´grupal`. their own story or if they want to work with a classmate and create a collaborative story.

The students have been given two choices.Youtube` and use the ´Youtube video creator`. To do so, the students need to have a ´storybird` and create a ´picture book`or a ´longbook`. gmail account.

Before they choose one or the other option, I´ve told them about the advantages and disadvantages when deciding to work with one or the other.
Therefore, I´ve told them that while the Youtube option allows you to create a video by adding the photos you wish to, by downloading them from the google browser, the storybird website doesn´t allow anyone to create a video. It allows to create an online story.
However, storytelling offers covers, images and drawings, which are really artistic and original.
Youtube also offers the opportunity to add audio to the videos. Storybird doesn´t. Procedure

The students are told to access Youtube and then click on the Youtube video creator.
First of all, I have told them to think about a story they would like to design.
Then, the students are told to search and download the images they are going to use.
After, I´ve told them to upload the cover for the story and to write a title for it, under the cover image.
Once that has been done, the students should upload the first image and begin writing the story. Each image should be explained with a short text, which shouldn´t be too long. Students should follow these steps with the following images and slides. Until the story has been finished.
Once the images have been uploaded and the texts related to them, it´s time to add the audio.
Youtube offers some songs, which can be used. It is important to note that Youtube doesn´t allow anyone to upload known pop, rock music - as there is copyright control. So students are told to choose one of the songs Youtube offers.
It is important to make the length of the slides and story to coincide with the length of the song. In that way, the music will end with the last slide.
Once the story has been designed, students are told to click on ´create video`. It will take some minutes. It is then when the students will have created their Youtube video storytelling.

Implementation - Students create the video

Assessment

In class we will have a collaborative assessment.
First of all, a student´s video will be played and the rest of the class will watch it.
Then, each of the videos will be assessed and evaluated.
Some items will be established with the whole class -

A
kahoot will be designed to evaluate the students works.

Youtube video - Created by Roberto and David (3rd course ESO)

Youtube video - Created by Esther Costa (3rd course ESO)

Youtube video - Created by Maria Chico (3rd course ESO)

Storybird - Created by Cristina Zazo (3rd course ESO)

Storybird - Created by Nicolás Guerrero (3rd course ESO)

https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/457b51d6-dd0b-4f4f-a668-57da34a5552a

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The final task is based on creating a story and transforming it into a video. The task is ´Students decide whether they are going to create The first choice is to access ´The other choice is to register at Planning individual` or ´grupal` .

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Hello everyone! This is my first time using Padlet so I'm a bit lost! It seems quite interesting though.
Here's the link to my new blog. I hope you like it!

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Some years ago, I would have answered to the question "What is storytelling for you" by stating that it is what my parents used to do every night when they took me to bed and read two or three pages from "Fairy Tales Over the Phone" by G. Rodari. Now, however, I would say storytelling is every single written or spoken performance with the purpose of expressing oneself's experiences, hopes or believes and entertaining his/her audience.

In the class, storytelling is another tool, and a very powerful one, specially with beginner and elementary learners. As a Basic 1 teacher, I often perceive that my students feel very limited because of their little language resources and their shortage of creativity and imagination. A language is not only a series of words, but also an endless set of ideas, and adult learners can sometimes be incapable of generating new ideas. We, therefore, as teachers, should avoid doing a lot of drilling and repetitive activities in class, and should do tasks and activities which promote students' creativity instead, because the more creative our students are the richer their language will be.

Although I have told some stories in class and I have also tried visualisation techniques recently (I find them an excellent starting point to write and tell stories!), I have never told stories with digital tools in class, so what I expect from the course is a wide range of tools and resources to be a better storyteller and to turn my students into storytellers too. I am also interested in discovering good sources providing short stories to work in class.

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Some years ago, I would have answered to the question "What is storytelling for you" by stating that it is what my parents used to do every night when they took me to bed and read two or three pages from "Fairy Tales Over the Phone" by G. Rodari.

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Hi everyone! Here you have the link to my blog :) http://xiscaenglish.blogspot.com.es/

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Here you've got my blog!
http://dstcourse2016.blogspot.com.es/2016/04/what-is-storytelling.html

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Hi everyone! Let's share our inconsistent blabber digitally!

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In this assignment, I have combined the possibilities of infographics and Prezi to retell Perrault's Little Red Riding Hood. I have designed an activity for students to learn how to write a character-based story. First, they take a profile-building template from Piktochart and complete it with the main characters in mind. In this case I provide the example of Little Red Riding Hood's profile: https://magic.piktochart.com/output/13568692-red

Once the profiles are completed, the students are ready to start telling the story.

This second step is done through Prezi. By using the information gathered in the Piktochert profiles, they craft a story with these same characters, and make them interact accordingly.

Prezi also allows for 2.0 interaction, like in-story activities and alternative endings, as you can see in the example I provide.

https://prezi.com/07enedj5vsqg/red-riding-hard/

Finally, in order to assess this activity, three broad areas have been considered: language skills, digital skills and storytelling. The following aims at a consistent assessment of these skills.

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In this assignment, I have combined the possibilities of infographics and Prezi to retell Perrault's Little Red Riding Hood. I have designed an activity for students to learn how to write a character-based story. First, they take a profile-building template from Piktochart and complete it with the main characters in mind.

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I'm Felip and I hope we'll learn very useful strategies while having a great time.
Here you'll find my blog.
See you!

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Here you are the link to my blog!

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This is the last activity of the course. I have tried to include as many aspects as possible in its design.

24 May: Introduction: Students pick their 5 most important moments in history. With this activity they reviwe the past and they learn the new vocabulary in the unit.

26 May: Introduction to the main grammar point of the unit (3rd conditional) + Grammar-based activities in which students make guesses at what would have happened if the events they picked the day before hadn't happened or happened differently.

30 May: Discussion about the difference between history and story, and formats in which both intertwin (autobiographies, historical novel, fan fiction).

31 May: Giving a go to fan fiction: students choose a book, series or film they like and make a change in the plot.

2 June: Students hand in their stories and they evaluate the activity.

The presentation of the activity will be done through a prezi:
https://prezi.com/qechw1hbiq6i/history-and-stories/

The storytelling will be done through an infographics because I showed them Piktochart and they liked its aesthetics and the possibilities it offered.

Development
Some children are more imaginative than others, so creative students received the activity more eagerly. Others had more trouble imagining plot twists, but overall I think they enjoyed the activity. Here are three of their results. Some of them sent me links and others images:

This one is pretty cool, a twist on Dumbledore's early life in Hary Potter: https://magic.piktochart.com/output/13618477-untitled-infographic

This other one is a cross-over of Greek mythology and the Narnia universe:

And this one, simpler, is about The Simpsons:

Assessment
We couldn't run a Kahoot assessment in class, because students are not allowed to use their mobile phones in our school (a pity, in my opinion). Anyway, I prepared a Kahoot questionnaire anyway. The access code is 436921.

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Hello to Caterina and all colleagues! It is great to share this course with you and I am sure there will lbe lots of stories to tell. Here is the blog I have created! See you soon. (Laura Cambril)

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Hello to Caterina and all colleagues! It is great to share this course with you and I am sure there will lbe lots of stories to tell. Here is the blog I have created! See you soon. (Laura Cambril)

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http://lchstorytelling.blogspot.com.es/

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The main purpose of this blog is to give you the opportunity to share and tell stories, to open your mind and heart.

1) WHAT'S STORYTELLING?
Stories have power. They delight, enchant, touch, teach, recall, inspire, motivate, challenge. They help us understand. They imprint a picture on our minds. Want to make a point or raise an issue? Tell a story. - Janet Litherland

People need to express their emotions, to explore new worlds, to create with words and to learn through stories. This is for me the most important meaning of storytelling. A video, a short film, a sequence of images, a digital comic, music, anything we create tells something and this is the best way to motivate and engage our students.
2) WHY DIGITAL STORY TELLING IN CLASS?
Storytelling in the class can be a powerful tool not only to let students explore their creativity but also to improve their language skills. It can also be used to deal with many different cross-curricular topics and genres. What's more, it can be a great way to promote collaborative learning if we ask them to work in groups or pair.
3) MY EXPECTATIONS AND GOALS WITH THIS COURSE
In this course of Digital Storytelling I expect to learn new tools and ways of adapting storytelling in the secondary class. I hope I will learn some tips and good creative ideas to use in class. I am sure we will learn a lot by sharing our works.

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The main purpose of this blog is to give you the opportunity to share and tell stories, to open your mind and heart. 1) WHAT'S STORYTELLING? Stories have power. They delight, enchant, touch, teach, recall, inspire, motivate, challenge. They help us understand. They imprint a picture on our minds.

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Hello, Caterina and colleagues. Ready to learn by doing. I am sure we will enjoy the experience. Cheer up!

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Hello, Caterina and colleagues. Ready to learn by doing. I am sure we will enjoy the experience. Cheer up!

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This is the link to the blog I've created. José María Agustiño

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Hello, dear students:

Let me introduce myself. My name is José María, I am your teacher and I would like you to learn English to use it, not to pass an exam, because we need languages to communicate with other people, if you can do that, the exam will be nothing to worry about. I am not from these islands, but you should discover my birth place since I'm not going to tell you.

Are you ready to introduce yourselves to your classmates?

For me, storytelling is the art of transmitting a story in an engaging way, so that the public is interested in what is being told and they want to know more details about the topic. By creating high expectations on the public we can make them curious. And curiosity is the key to creativity. That's why using DST in class may be useful, it is the time of new technologies not only because they are useful for us, teachers, but also because our students are digital natives, that is THEIR world and we should try to engage them using the skills they already have.

What I expect is to learn something about a tool I hadn't used before and, if I find it useful, put it into practice with my future students.

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Hello, dear students: Let me introduce myself. My name is José María, I am your teacher and I would like you to learn English to use it, not to pass an exam, because we need languages to communicate with other people, if you can do that, the exam will be nothing to worry about.

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HI CATERINA AND MATES!  LET´S GET STARTED! AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, I AM EAGER TO LEARN ALL ABOUT THE DIGITAL TOOLS WE CAN USE TO CREATE STORIES AND IMPROVE MY TEACHING SKILLS! THAT´S FOR SURE A CHALLENGE!

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HI CATERINA AND MATES!  LET´S GET STARTED! AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED, I AM EAGER TO LEARN ALL ABOUT THE DIGITAL TOOLS WE CAN USE TO CREATE STORIES AND IMPROVE MY TEACHING SKILLS! THAT´S FOR SURE A CHALLENGE!

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Well, here is the link of my blog. I hope you like it although it´s very simple...

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Hi everybody!

In this post you will find useful links for Webquest and other resources. Let´s get started!

This methodological strategy is very motivating and interesting. It also gives students a lot of opportunities to develop their knowledges and key competences through an ACTIVE and INTERACTIVE TASK using the NETBOOKS, which are always wellcome!
Here are two of the most interesting Webquest sites to search for motivating topics and tasks for our students.
QUEST GARDEN

It is a very motivating way of assessment or to detect how your students are achieving the goals. Just sign up and... create nice Quizzes!

COMICS ONLINE

My students love using this webpage to create their comics in English. It is very easy and intuitive. There is a great variety of characters and sets, from Ancient Egypt to Space Future... It is well-worth a visit!

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How to became a good English Teacher... through Storytelling!

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Hi everybody! In this post you will find useful links for Webquest and other resources. Let´s get started! This methodological strategy is very motivating and interesting. It also gives students a lot of opportunities to develop their knowledges and key competences through an ACTIVE and INTERACTIVE TASK using the NETBOOKS, which are always wellcome!

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HELLO CATERINA AND CLASSMATES! I WISH WE COULD LEARN LOTS OF THINGS TOGHETER ABOUT DIGITAL STORYTELLING IN THIS COURSE. TO START WITH, HERE I LEAVE YOU THE LINK TO THE BLOG THAT I HAVE CREATED, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT ME! http://storytellingclass.blogspot.com.es/

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HELLO CATERINA AND CLASSMATES! I WISH WE COULD LEARN LOTS OF THINGS TOGHETER ABOUT DIGITAL STORYTELLING IN THIS COURSE. TO START WITH, HERE I LEAVE YOU THE LINK TO THE BLOG THAT I HAVE CREATED, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT ME! http://storytellingclass.blogspot.com.es/

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Marta Gómez Domingo

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1. What is storytelling for you?

Digital storytelling is the practice of combining narrative with digital content, including images, sound, and video, to create a short movie, typically with a strong emotional component. Sophisticated digital stories can be interactive movies that include highly produced audio and visual effects, but a set of slides with corresponding narration or music constitutes a basic digital story. Digital stories can be instructional, persuasive, historical, or reflective. The resources available to incorporate into a digital story are virtually limitless, giving the storyteller enormous creative latitude. Some learning theorists believe that as a pedagogical technique, storytelling can be effectively applied to nearly any subject. Constructing a narrative and communicating it effectively require the storyteller to think carefully about the topic and consider the audience's perspective.

2. Why Digital Storytelling in class?

People tell stories to teach beliefs and values to others. The oral tradition of knowledge transfer and exchange has served as the basis for education since humans began teaching one another, and digital stories build on this model by incorporating rich, dynamic media. The process of creating a digital story forces storytellers to choose a topic that can be appropriately conveyed to a particular audience, with electronic elements, in the time available. This dynamic creates an opportunity to reflect on life and find deep connections with the subject matter of a course or with an out-ofclass experience, such as a trip abroad. Digital stories let students express themselves not only with their own words but also in their own voices, fostering a sense of individuality and of "owning" their creations. At the same time, digital stories give students an opportunity to experiment with self-representation telling a story that highlights specific characteristics or events is a key part of establishing their identity, a process that for many is an important aspect of the college years.

3. Your expectations and goals with this course.

From this course, I want to achieve different aims. To start with, I want to discover various online tools that will help me to create better digital storytelling activities. Moreover, I also would like to find the way to motivate students to improve their speaking, writing and reading skills through digital storytelling. Finally, I also will try to create a library of websites and resources to use them in the English classes at the school.

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1. What is storytelling for you? Digital storytelling is the practice of combining narrative with digital content, including images, sound, and video, to create a short movie, typically with a strong emotional component. Sophisticated digital stories can be interactive movies that include highly produced audio and visual effects, but a set of slides with corresponding narration or music constitutes a basic digital story.

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HELLO EVERYBODY AND WELCOME TO THIS FAD COURSE ABOUT STORYTELLING !  I HOPE IT WILL FULFIL YOUR EXPECTATIONS AND YOU WILL ENJOY AND LEARN USING DIFFERENT TOOLS  TO CREATE AND TELL AWESOME STORIES WITH YOUR STUDENTS! 

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HELLO EVERYBODY AND WELCOME TO THIS FAD COURSE ABOUT STORYTELLING !  I HOPE IT WILL FULFIL YOUR EXPECTATIONS AND YOU WILL ENJOY AND LEARN USING DIFFERENT TOOLS  TO CREATE AND TELL AWESOME STORIES WITH YOUR STUDENTS! 

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This is the link to the blog I have created for this course.  Enjoy it!

http://dst2016.blogspot.com.es/