Bringing Life To A Case Study
Design Pattern Tags : Active learning, Connected learning
Bringing Life To A Case Study March 2016
Bringing Life To A Case Study is intended to narrate learning and explain concepts through storytelling combined with a variety of multimedia. Digital storytelling contains a mixture of multimedia including text, digital images, audio narrations, video clips and music.
Rationale Bringing Life To A Case Study gives students the opportunity to enrich and enhance their learning through storytelling combined with a variety of multimedia.
Learners/Context Bringing Life To A Case Study has been created to engage students in their learning and to illustrate main concepts through storytelling combined with a variety of multimedia.
Alignment Bringing Life To A Case Study gives students the opportunity to identify key concepts and construct meaning to the case study through storytelling combined with a variety of multimedia.
Instructions/Processes
Prior to Semester
Choose the Case Study
Decide on the main concept to be conveyed
Decide on what is the purpose of the story
Decide on the key question which will be answered at the end of the story
Connect your audience to the story by contextualising the story. Refer to Resources/Technology: Successful Storytelling)
Add multimedia to support and embellish the story by illustrating scenes, characters or situations:
Find images online or through Creative Commons licensed images:
Google Slides
Google Slides is part of the Google Apps suite and works like PowerPoint.
It is easily shareable and lets you work collaboratively.
It combines text and images.
Google Hangouts On Air
Sway
Explain Everything
Short video formats
( https://media.twitter.com/best-practice/pro-tips-for-using-vine)
Instagram (15 seconds) ( http://mashable.com/2013/11/11/creative-instagram-videos/#ln0VskiVWgkj)
Both in short video format and doesn’t require much production, but can still convey a story.
In class
Explain to students about digital storytelling to convey the main concept in the case study
Direct students to the location of the narration of case study to answer prepared questions on the case study
EXTENSION
Ask students to recreate the case study and their worked answer as a digital story in groups of 4 individuals
Ask students to compile work in a short Vine or Instagram style video
Give students a different case study and ask students to create their own scenes, creating their own storytelling, images, sound or video. Some suggestions can be found on: Common Craft videos https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs-SOeljpyBAvS6fYAR2egw )
or
Lego figures ( http://amomwithalessonplan.com/minifigures-storytelling/ )
Ask students to upload them into Blackboard for comments by their peers for review.
Conditions/Critical Success Factors Knowledge of case study
Knowledge of storytelling
Knowledge of apps
Resources/ Technology
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