BACKGROUND Digital storytelling is an arts-based research method with potential to elucidate complex narratives in a compelling manner, increase participant engagement, and enhance the meaning of research findings. This method involves the creation of a 3- to 5-min video that integrates multimedia materials including photos, participant voices, drawings, and music. Given the significant potenti...

This study develops a self-generated drawing environment for the support of young children’s writing and storytelling skill through the implementation of drawing, writing, and storytelling activities. In particular, each student used a tablet PC to share a story and drawings based on written text. An experiment was conducted in a primary school with 116 1st grade students from four classes (div...

Emotional intelligence is the ability to control and manage emotions. Bashfulness is an emotional characteristic that could lead to social isolation and impact children’s performance across their developmental years. Learning social skills could help shy students overcome this problem. It has been hypothesized that such skills can be taught through storytelling, and hence, improve children’s em...

A story is a narrative structure with a high cause and effect context which enables the story to make an enduring impression on people. For this purpose, many language learning environments use storytelling as foundation to increase degree of understanding and learning interest. However, most current storytelling systems in language learning have little flexibility in the connection between the...

The purpose of this focused program evaluation was to explore attitudes and beliefs about storytelling as a strategy for coping with cancer among participants who attended a cancer-related storytelling workshop. The response rate was 70% (n = 94) and included persons with a diagnosis of cancer, their loved ones, and members of the public. The program coordinators used a theoretical model descri...

Recently, computer technology and multimedia elements have been developed and integrated into teaching and learning. Entertainment-based learning environments can make learning contents more attractive, and thus can lead to learners' active participation and facilitate learning. A significant amount of research examines using video editing software to create video clips for digital storytelling...

This article argues that the role of storytelling in planning needs to be rethought learning from decolonial turn social sciences. I ask how decolonise theory and practice. The aim is explore key notions Latin American thinking, such as pluriverse, epistemological disobedience, border thinking sentipensar, can help us reframe planning. reframing contribute finding different avenues build ontolo...

Introduction Stories are the core of many types of entertainment. Although developers and designers strive to develop new forms of entertainment that deliver richer audiovisual experiences to the audience, one of the key elements – a good story – remains the same. Storytelling is intertwined in people’s lives and has deeply influenced human societies for generations. It ranges from the simplest...