DATES & LOCATIONS
05-09 June 2023 - Budapest, Hungary
CONFIRMED
04-08 September 2023 - İzmir, Turkey
CONFIRMED
06-10 May 2024 - Budapest, Hungary
17-21 June 2024 - Prague, Czech Republic
CONTENT
DIGITAL GAMES & STORYTELLING
The aim of this course is to teach digital story and game development stages and tools. To date, storytelling has remained an educational tool. Storytelling is a powerful pedagogical approach to disseminating learning outcomes in general, scientific, and technological education. Today, individuals continue to tell the story by using new digital media tools. The digital story is seen as a combination of traditional storytelling and multimedia technologies. Today, many communication technologies and multimedia tools are used. Using these technologies and tools, storytelling has changed and transformed into digital storytelling. With this course, it is aimed to give information to the teachers about the adaptation of the digital games, which are widely used today, to the lessons with their effective and motivating aspects.
Learning Outcomes:
All the participants will:
- Get familiar with the key issues and concerns about storytelling and digital games
- Learn how to blend story and technologies
- Execute to multimedia tools
- Describe components of digital games
- Classify types of online educational game
- Implement writing and the screenplay stage
- Create a storyboard
- Compare to stages of digital story development
- Learn effective teaching strategies
- Defend their own activities depending on the subject
Objectives of the Course:
- Helping teach meaningful and purposeful speech
- Increasing student’s willingness to read
- Finding the story to read for encourage the students
- Writing student’s own stories in a short time, so they will feel confident
- Improving solidarity in the classroom
- Developing listening skills
- Helping to find out children who love acting
- Giving students a good motivation for improving speaking and writing skills
- Learning how to combine technologies and story or game
- Comparing process of the storytelling and types of online educational game
Methodology:
- Focusing on practical and skills-based -interactive learning
- Explaining immediate feedbacks
- Locating hands-on activities
- Analyzing inspiring discussions on best practices
- Brainstorming
- Working in groups cooperatively
- Identifying components of digital games and storytelling
Target Group:
- Teachers, trainers, educators, school administrators, etc.
Preparation:
Before the course,
- A detailed pre-course questionnaire to indicate their level of experience, teaching backgrounds, and training will be completed by participants.
- They will also prepare a presentation to reflect their own teaching method.
Validation:
- A course participation certificate will be given to all participants.
- A Europass Mobility Certificate will be given if the participant demands it, as well.
DAILY SCHEDULE
1st Day
Ice-breaking activities and introduction of the course program
Getting to know each other – Presentation of participants (a five-minute presentation)
Components of digital games
7 Components of digital storytelling according to the digital storytelling center
A General look to digital storytelling process
2nd Day
A General look to digital games
Use of multimedia tools
- Types of online educational game
Focusing digital story telling process
Writing stage
- The screenplay stages
Creating a storyboard
- Focusing digital story telling process
3rd Day
Use of multimedia tools
- Creating the digital story
Sharing with online tools
Software for digital storytelling
Digital games: Web 2.0 Games
- Examining a sample
Stages of digital story development
4th day
Focusing on effective teaching strategies that encourage the active involvement of all students in experimental education
Tips for how to develop strategies to improve the educational quality of the school
Tips for developing a curriculum on digital story telling
Giving time to the participants to plan their own activities depending on the subjects they are teaching
Performing the activities developed by the participants
5th day
Summarize the key points of the course
Overview of the course program
Evaluation of the course program
Filling the feedback forms
Europass Mobility Certificate, Participation Certificate
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