Module 4. Collaborative Storytelling.

FOLDING STORIES

Here is a post of a collaborative storytelling I arranged with my students in 2nd of Batxillerat. I asked them to participate writing a story as an optional activity to do from home.

The first thing we did was go through a few of the stories which were posted on the "Folding stories" web page and make sure the students understood how to edit and use the tool.

To start the story, we used the "story cubes" in class to choose the main character in the story "the sheep". Another element we chose by throwing the story cubes was the concept of music (the sheep could sing) and then we added an adjective, which was a colour "brown" (the brown spot on her eye). With these words we built up the basic traits of our heroine, to whom we named "Lola" (as a tribute to the sheep Lola in the film Night on Earth by Jim Jarmush).

Once we had the main character, we wrote the first sentence in class together and then we agreed that they would follow the story from home.

A few students did it and we also found a few folds written by unknown writers, which was quite exciting as well... someone got interested in our story!!

Below you will find the link to our story, we hope you like it!!

foldingstory.com/2e65o


PADLET

Padlet is a very basic and easy to use tool which is very appropriate for younger students who might not have an e-mail account. I've used this tool to create stories with my 1st of ESO students.

I have used the same story to build up a padlet to show to my students. After reading the story on the padlet I asked the students to create their own padlet at home as we couldn't count on the school computers.

We also used the story cubes in class to create a few characters and the students chose the character they liked best to write their stories individually or in pairs. The students were given a few days to write and hand in their stories so that I could correct them before publishing them on the padlet.

once I have corrected the stories they will be able to publish them on the padlet web page.

https://padlet.com/pilscaldentey/rjingfjp7cls