Digital Storytelling
The course focuses on Digital Storytelling with Aristotle’s Poetics in the Digital Era.
"We need to bring learning to people instead of people to learning." Elliot Masie
Description
This 2-week course has been created for teachers who want to utilise non-traditional teaching and learning methods. The course’s main aim is to develop and advance participants’ life, soft, digital, and 4Cs skills (creativity, communication, collaboration, and critical thinking) to increase their active participation and engagement in the zone of proximal development/flow for Positive Education. To achieve this goal, the course utilises creative storytelling to support diversity and cultural awareness, multiliteracies, and multimodality.
The participants learn and work collaboratively on specific storylines, rules, structures, and methods, first set by Aristotle in Poetics. Upon completion, they will be able to introduce new methods and techniques to their school practices, manage changes and problems, and overall, develop the PERMA-V Positive Education framework (Positive Emotions, Engagement, Relationships, Meaning, Achievement, and Vitality).
Learning objectives
By the end of the course all participants will be able to identify components of digital games and storytelling practices. Getting familiar with the key issues and concerns about blending story and and digital games will also be one the main goals of the course. Among other obThe course will help the participants to: Learn about the creative storytelling storylines and the ways these are related to ancient Greek storytelling and Aristotle’s Poetics in particular. Combine The Hero’s Journey with the Hero’s Emotional Journey to understand emotional and social intelligence skills and how to enhance and foster them in themselves and their students. Reflect on the consequences of their choices and practices for students' learning and development and capture them in writing and / or orally. Take advantage of their diversity by working individually or in small teams to develop interdisciplinary stories. Choose appropriate methods, techniques, activities, instruments, materials, and methods of evaluation in creative storytelling. Understand the role of education in the development of the 4Cs critical and creative thinking. Work effectively with diverse digital tools for story presentation and sharing across multiple situations and fields.jectives of the course, the participants will learn effective teaching strategies and how to implement them using multimedia digital tools with minimal coding experience required.
Methodology & assessment
Materials, digital tools & other learning resources
- Creative storytelling frameworks
- Collaborative story design activities for group work
- Multimodal literacy modules including text, visuals, audio & video integration to enhance multiliteracies
- PERMA V Positive Education toolkit
- Digital storyboarding tools, platforms like Storyboard That, Canva, Pixton, Animoto for visualizing narratives
- Online storytelling lesson plans
- Podcasting & multimedia projects, sony-compatible tools for blending spoken word
- Digital citizenship & ethical use units
Certification details
Innotomia is an expert and skillful training organization, using educators with vast exercisein the field of initial, continuous and permanent Vocational Training. We certify every mobility experience with the issueof Europass Mobility certification and a certification of attendance.
Participants receive an “INNOTOMIA Education Digital Storytelling Training Certificate” which certifies acquired knowledge of new techniques and methods.
Pricing, packages and other information
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Price:EUR 400
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Course package content:
The cost of the course package includes only the teaching/training services. (Please refer to the website for all extra activities).
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Additional information:Description of the services and activities included in the course package (such as accommodation, meals, transport) or available at extra cost.
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Cancellation & changes:
To change the course, you need to inform us within two weeks of notice to get a full refund. Cancellation refunds after that date are 50% of the cost.
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Additional information:The options and conditions for change and cancellation, and the policy in case of unforeseen circumstances (force majeure).
Additional information
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Language:English
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Target audience ISCED:Primary education (ISCED 1)Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
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Target audience type:TeacherHead Teacher / PrincipalOther
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Learning time:15-20 hours
