(28 November - 4 December ) Week 10

Digital Storytelling

    Hello again, I will continue my blog with the tenth week. Our aim in this week's lesson is to explore the storytelling tool called "Storyjumper" and work on our final project. First of all, I want to talk about storytelling. Storytelling; The fact that the data presented in the communication for persuasion exists in a process that touches the lives of the customers. It means that the target audience visualizes the presented content, connects with their previous experiences and is emotionally stimulated.(https://www.speakeragency.com.tr/blog/storytelling-hikaye-anlaticiligi-nedir-neden-onemlidir) 

    At this point, we aim to use the functions given in the definition integrated with our course. The tool we will use while storytelling will be Storyjumper. Our teacher asked us to explore this website in our lesson this week and learn how to use it. At this point, when I entered the site in my studies, I encountered a simple interface.

  

  When I first logged into the site, I came across and watched a 5-minute tutorial video before creating my own project. First of all, I came across a section where we can edit the number of pages from the bottom side, from here it is possible to set the number of pages we want. As I continued to review, I saw other tabs that we can use on the side of the page. These are various tabs divided into " text", "props", "scenes" and " photos" and created for us to organize the visualization of our storybook. From the "Text" section, we can adjust many things such as the size, type, color of the text on the page and the box it will be in. From the "Props" tab, we can find the visual plugins we will present with our article and design characters. These were created purely to develop our project visually.

    In the "Scenes" section, there are background templates to edit the background of our page and we can make adjustments from here. The last tab we can add visually is the "Photos" section. From here, we can add different photos to the page we designed. In general, visual edits can be made this way on the Storyjumper site.

    Apart from the visual arrangements, when we come to the narration part of the work, we encounter a tab called "Voice". Here, we are allowed to add voiceovers to the visual design and text we make. We use this to voice our page.

    
    In general, we can summarize the use of the tool as follows. Using this tool we will prepare a book for our final project and integrate it into our lesson.

Final Project

    Apart from learning how to use the tool, we continued to work with my group friends about our final
project during our lesson this week. Since we are going to create a lesson about addiction, we worked on the course plan and determined the topics that we will teach in the course. We also discussed and drafted how to use the Storyjumper tool in our project.