STorytelling / capturing the moment

This week in week 7 of the course EDCI 337 we learned the bases of storytelling. The process of telling a story and what makes a good story. For this process, you wanna have a good basis and framework for your narrative.

You wanna start by having a framework and outline for the story, some of this includes knowing your audience, knowing the age range to tell the story, if the background is appropriate to your audience, age range, and topic range. You want to engage your audience, so you would not approach a subject that does not excite your audience and something that would not engage them in a discussion. A good idea would be to tell a personal story. An experience you have had, or a learning moment you have experienced, is something that gets the audience to know more about you.

Show your audience your story, bring pictures or items/souvenirs to show audiences your experience. If showing a presentation for a class present a slide and know your material. A good way to do this is to practice the slide or video you are presenting to get the main points across. Show an educational video, or infographic as we have talked about before in a previous blog post.

I think I would rate my storytelling skills at a very high scale because of all the work I have done with kids as a summer camp leader or running a Dungeon and Dragons campaign, in which you have to practice telling a roleplay story for characters to interact with.

As I said earlier when talking about educational videos or information presentations to have practice and maybe even record and have a backup file for future uses, I find the most resourceful educational videos is one that captures your audience’s attention. Again knowing your audience beforehand, looking at some of the educational videos posted in our lessons in EDCI 337 have not always grabbed my attention or I didn’t understand the information presented. The reason being some of the information presented was presented in a way where it was just a podcast and nothing to watch. This way of presented can be effective but I found for those who have learning disabilities such as myself I felt less keen on listening and distracted by other items on the screen.