Module 5: Implementation

THE SUPER SHORT STORY CHALLENGE

STEP THREE: IMPLEMENTATION.

SESSION 1: 55'	ACTIVITY PRESENTATION
15'	Activity presentation: How to use The Story Dice app. Tell the students they are going to write a collaborative story in class and that to do so they are going to use a mobile phone app called Story Dice. The students are going to watch a video to learn about the app. Give the students worksheet 1 with the video transcript (Annex 1). The students have to listen and watch the video and fill in the gaps with the missing words. Go through the vocabulary in the box to check students' understanding. Play the first part of the video (up to minute 2:52) twice and then correct.
10'	Writing the story: Using charts to create the main character and the plot. Give the students a copy of worksheet 2 (annex 2) and explain how to use the chart to create the main character and the story plot. Go through the document to check student's understanding. Divide the students into groups of 4 to do a practice. Try to have well balanced groups in terms of their English level.
20'	Practicing: A Story Dice simulation. (The Super Short Story Challenge) One student in one of the groups taps on the screen of the teacher's phone to roll 5 dice to create their character. The teacher writes the vocabulary of the pictograms on the blackboard to check students' understanding. They have 5 minutes to complete the chart with the information of their main character. Another student will then roll 5 dice to create the story plot. They will follow the same procedure, they will have 5 minutes to write the story.
10'	Choosing the best story: Votation. Each group reads their story and finally the students vote the best story to be the winner. Tell the students that in the following session they will create stories using the mobile app and they will publish them on the padlet app. Ask them to instal Story Dice and Kahoot in their phones before they come to class.
SESSION 2: 55'	The Super Short Story Challenge and assesment of the activity using Kahoot.
5'	Getting started. The students are divided into the same groups as the previous day. They all receive the document with the charts to create the character and the story plot.
20'	Creating a story with the Story Dice app: The Super Short Story Challenge. One student in each group taps on the screen of the phone to roll 5 dice to create their character. The teacher writes the vocabulary of the pictograms on the blackboard to check students' understanding. They have 5 minutes to complete the chart with the information of their main character. Another student will then roll 5 dice to create the story plot. They will follow the same procedure. They will have 5 minutes to write the story.
10'	Votation: Three stories are choosen to be posted on padlet. Each group reads about their characters and their stories and finally the students vote the best 3 stories to be the winners. These three stories will be published on the padlet app.
20'	Assesment on kahoot.
	The students have previously installed the kahoot app on their phones. They are going to answer a questionaire using kahoot to express their opinion about the Super Short Story Challenge activity. Before starting with the survey, the teacher goes through the questions to check students' understanding. Project a document with the questions on the digital blackboard so that students can easily read them through. After that, ask students to open the app in their phones and give them the code number to complete the questionare.