Using stories and storytelling in online teaching is an underused method of increasing student engagement and interest. Here are just five of many takeaways from recent writings about story in teaching: Present and encourage narrative in case studies. Case studies are inherently stories. In his book, How to Do Your … Continue reading
Category Archives: Storytelling and Learning
iBooks Author: Hey Kids, Let’s Write a Storytelling Textbook; Who’s with Me?
When I was teaching, I was so appalled at the prices of college textbooks that I used an assortment of popular-press books instead of texts. I knew from Walter Isaacson’s bio of Steve Jobs that Jobs, too, was appalled, and one of the next things on his agenda was to … Continue reading
Tellers: How Do You Organize Your Stories?
Reader Stephanie Jones asked me a question I couldn’t answer but readers who are oral-performance storytellers perhaps can: Do you know of any web tools that would enable a storyteller to keep a log of the stories they tell, along with notes about the stories, sources, places they’ve told, etc.? … Continue reading
Another Option for Mastering Story Delivery: Acting Class
Here’s the latest entry in my (unintentionally) ongoing series on how to learn and master a story so your oral delivery of it sounds natural. Heather Summerhayes Cariou, author of the acclaimed memoir about her sister, Sixtyfive Roses, responded to the most recent entry in this series, writing: As a … Continue reading
Visual Storytelling, Learning Styles, and the Corporate Boardroom
I learned two new things from a Worldwide Story Work teleconference this week presented by Malcolm Jones, an expert in ideation and sketching. Well, probably a lot more than two, but these were the ones that really stood out. An affinity for visual storytelling over text-based storytelling (or vice versa) … Continue reading
Technique for Mastering a Story Depends on Your Learning Style
A few weeks ago, I presented the dilemma of blogger Jared (Moon Over Martinborough), who recently began podcasts and was concerned that his oral delivery didn’t sound sufficiently “campfire-story”-esque. I tossed around a few thoughts on achieving a natural-sounding delivery, including suggesting Jared not even read from his written text … Continue reading
Even More about The StoryBox Project
If you were intrigued by my recent post about The StoryBox project, you can learn even more about it through this report aired on an NBC affiliate:
An Up-Close Look at How the Story Box Project Works
I’ve previously mentioned THE STORY BOX PROJECT, but you might not have a good feel for how it works just by reading its own site and THE STORY BOX PROJECT global publishing and sharing Ning group. Limor Shiponi has chronicled her experience with THE STORY BOX PROJECT both on the … Continue reading
Storytelling Helps Us Remember More than the Standard Seven Data Points
Mike Speiser recently wrote on the GigaOM Network that “our short-term memory is widely believed to have a capacity of seven elements, plus or minus two,” which is the reason, Speiser notes, “that U.S. phone numbers have seven digits.” If you connect items (or data points) together as a story, … Continue reading
Did You Have an Imaginary Friend? You May Be a Good Storyteller
A study of of 48 boys and girls aged 5-1/2, found that the 13 girls and 10 boys who currently or previously engaged in imaginary companion play had more advanced narrative skills than children who did not engage in this type of play, reports ScienceAlert: Children’s interaction with imaginary friends … Continue reading