Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of an online dialogic storytelling program on vocabulary skills (picture, relative, and oral vocabulary skills) of hard of hearing children. Methods: In this experimental study with pre-test-post-test and a control group design, 34 mothers of hard of hearing children participated. Children’s ages range from 4 to 6 years and t...

This chapter examines the applicability of storytelling as a way to playfully interact with scientific image data. Arguing that scientific practice can benefit from a moment of openness and playfulness, we propose a story-based interaction with image data as a means to ignite playful and creative responses to scientific images. By means of a literature review, preliminary user studies and the i...

This paper presents an approach combining concepts of virtual storytelling with cooperative processes. We will describe why storytelling is relevant in cooperation support applications. We will outline how storytelling concepts provide a new quality for groupware applications. Different prototypes illustrate a combination of a groupware application with various storytelling components in a Thea...

Background: Chronic diseases in children lead to failure in the development of self-esteem and productivity. Self-efficacy decreases as one’s behaviors become more complex and difficult to deal with. Storytelling is an observational learning method, which is effective in improving self-efficacy. Aim: to determine the effects of storytelling on self-efficacy in children with thalassemia (aged 7-...

In this article, I examine the practice of storytelling in a transplant support group, investigating how individuals’ participation in storytelling activities allowed them to coconstruct collective and individual identities. The sequential ordering and contexts of the storytelling activities in the support group meetings suggest that both the speakers and audience strategically negotiated the m...

This article explores the use of storytelling as part of an overall approach to the teaching of information technology in tertiary education. The author defines the context of use of storytelling in terms of the various types of education being delivered and the delivery methods, and then explores the potential uses and benefits of storytelling. A sample story is included and briefly analysed t...

With the rapid development of multimedia technology, digital storytelling has been widely applied in education. This article argues that digital storytelling is a multimedia narrative form which involves critical thinking and creative abilities. These two elements are very important in multimedia feature writing. This article analyzes the application of digital storytelling approach in a multim...

The storytelling method can be used to work through intractable conflicts. Workingthrough enables people who have suffered traumatic social experiences to learn to live with these painful events while developing an ability to listen to the pain of the “other.” The storytelling approach focuses on the way personal storytelling facilitates the working-through processes in intractable conflicts. T...

Storytelling has been used for a long time as a powerful communication tool. In the time of digital transformation storytelling is rediscovered on online platforms for e-commerce or crowdfunding projects. Digital storytelling is also increasingly used in the social media context, including online blogs, on Twitter or in the form of online reviews of services and products. Across all these digit...

Storytelling has long been part of a child’s educational development, however, its use as a learning tool in higher education has not been fully explored and offers great potential in supporting the learning process. This paper proposes the use of storytelling as a reflective tool in higher education and investigates this by considering its use in art and design to support reflection about asse...