Mobile and Web 2.0 technology have the very real potential to democratize the creation and sharing of multimedia content in developing communities, even beyond the levels currently seen in community radio and television. In this article, we report the andings of an exercise to test this potential in partnership with a Budikote village in southern India. We show how a system called StoryBank sup...

Learning culture through stories is an effective way for multicultural education, since stories are one of the most powerful and personal ways that we learn about the world. Storytelling, the process of telling stories, is a form of communication and a universal expression of culture. With the development of technology, storytelling emerges out of diverse ways. This study explores the storytell...

Human understanding of the physical world frequently derives from the narratives we construct about it. Analogously, we can incorporate narratives in virtual spaces to give visitors a sense of place and purpose. In this paper we describe two projects using interactive characters as a medium for story building and storytelling within and about the digital places they inhabit.

This paper describes a text task in which children wrote their own stories in their regular school books, copied these stories onto digital paper using digital pens, had their handwritten stories recognized by the computer software, and then, looked at the text presented back to them and highlighted errors. There was considerable variability in the ability of the children to spot errors. Some c...

The research aims to investigate the effects of digital stories on children. Additionaly, problems experienced by parents when using story platforms and solutions for these were also examined. Phenomenology, one qualitative designs, was used in study. study group consisted 14 selected criterion sampling method. A semi-structured interview form as a data collection tool. Content analysis data. I...

The incorporation of creative assignments in the form digital stories and artistic undergraduate graduate World Religions courses has resulted positive feedback from students, these were considered favorite semester. They have given many which identify as “spiritual but not religious”, or “non-practicing”, an opportunity to connect themes various world religions their own life stories, implicit...

Cancer is the leading cause of mortality among Alaska Native people. Over half of Alaska Native people live in rural communities where specially trained community members called Community Health Aides/Practitioners (CHA/Ps) provide health care. In response to CHA/Ps' expressed desire to learn more about cancer, four 5-day cancer education and digital storytelling courses were provided in 2014. ...