Enhancing Students’ Speaking Ability by Using Story Telling Technique (STT)

Spatial Sound Enhancing Virtual Story Telling

Spatial sound information/cues may enhance the sense of immersiveness in virtual story telling. However, their role within complex, loosely-structured narratives is little understood. This paper describes a virtual heritage project that aims to convey a factual story using interactive virtual environments. Sound was added to the existing project in an effort to enhance the virtual experience. T...

Telling a story

The genre of storytelling in the form of case studies is an effective way of teaching and learning. Contemporary research on the case method is absent in the academic discipline of communication. This issue needs to be addressed and research on the effectiveness of the case method needs to be done in the academic area of communication. This paper discusses the reasons behind the popularity of t...

Story telling: crafting identities

Career guidance clients are seeking to craft new identities that better position them in their careers. The focus of the present article is on narrative career counselling's potential contribution in providing a meaningful and useful experience for career guidance clients. To illustrate the potential of narrative career counselling, the story telling approach is offered as an example to illustr...

Enhancing Students’ Ability in Reading Contour Maps Using Gis

Terrain relief is an important feature of geographic environment and a major element of topographic maps. Contour lines are widely adopted as representation of terrain relief in traditional maps. In general, contour maps are still indispensable due to the following reasons: 1) Abundant terrain data are still represented by contour maps; 2) Contour maps contain fewer limits for use in different ...

Editor's Note/Man, the Story-Telling Animal