Story is an old vivid strategy
used in teaching. It is very effective since it stimulates imaginations,
imagery and activation of existing knowledge. Walker (2012) mentions that human
beings are story telling creatures since our memories are organized in the left hemisphere as stories which makes
stories paly vital role in teaching. He further declares that allocating part of the lesson for telling
stories makes it " engaging and creative". Moreover, lessons suffused
with stories enhance students' critical thinking and develop their vocabulary'
skills since they make students relate stories' events with their own lives.
Furthermore, generating an effective story requires good descriptive language
and coherent logical events. Additionally, different reactions are generated to
different kinds of stories. For example, stories about the teacher's own
experiences strengthen the relations between him or her and his or her students
while fiction stories stimulate imagination.
Nowadays, technology is integrated
with stories to make story telling more interesting. As a result, digital stories
emerge which allow students to transform events to multidimensional experience. They also encourage students
to use their creativity to choose the best way of displaying the story via
media and narrating it in an interesting way.
Stories are widely used in our
schools but teachers are stuck to traditional ways of telling stories which is
narrating the story orally. Students need new ways of doing things to make them
interested in the subject and thereby achieve better in their study. Teachers have to look for new ways of
narrating stories to grab their students' attention and make them like the
study' materials. One new way of telling stories is by displaying them with a
suitable software. There are many programs teachers can use to produce a
digital story, such as power point presentation, Powtoon, Prezi and movie
maker.
I have used Powtoon to create
stories and I found it an easy program that everyone can learn to use. Using
Powtoon, teachers can produce interactive stories where the story's characters
move according to its events. The limitation of using Powtoon is that not every
character you want to use in your story is available in Powtoon's characters'
list but the teacher can be creative and overcome this problem.
Story is an important strategy
that I will use as a teacher in the future and I will try to display it with
different programs. I will also ask my students to create digital stories to
enhance their reading skills and add sound effect to it as a record of it to improve
their speaking skills.
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