Cancellation rules: Cancellation is possible until 30 days before the start of the course.

Tutors:
– Easy4Teachers / I Am Learner (Dr Marina Connell; John Connell)
– NGO: Friends of Education (Marina Tanasoska Dzeparoska, Elena Apostoloska, Zorica Petroska, Darko Taleski, Bojan Vasilev)

Preparation: This course does not require any specific pre-course knowledge or reading, but a pre-course questionnaire will be sent to all participants so that trainers can assess needs and tailor the course appropriately. Those participants who are not teachers will be asked about their interest in the course and their expectations from it as well as the level of their familiarity with technology. Letters of enrolment will be sent to all participants. Participants will be encouraged to bring their own laptops or other devices if possible like smartphones, tablets, to retain records of any projects & materials that will be created during the course.

Methodology: This course consists of input sessions, workshops, and presentations. It is highly interactive and participants are expected to take an active role in all sessions, experiencing, but also adding, to the activities while employing “WebQuest” and “learning by doing” methodologies using digital tools.

Follow-Up: Participants will be given opportunities to create their own educational stories, which can then be shared, discussed, analyzed and, of course, taken away with them after the course to use and re-use in their own classrooms. A Facebook group will be created for all participants to allow discussion and comment to continue beyond the course.

Course description:

The training entitled “Mastering Storytelling: Teaching Techniques for Primary School” is an innovative workshop course for teacher professional development, under the Erasmus+ Key Action 1: ‘Learning Mobility of Individuals’. The course will provide an opportunity for participants to improve their storytelling skills and express themselves freely; encourage them to change their usual mode of thinking and to develop their own computational thinking in a truly collaborative way. They will develop a deeper insight into the concepts, strategies, and the didactic aims and objectives of creating stop motion animations. Participants will acquire practical knowledge and will be offered familiarity with examples of good teaching practice, and they will be able to share their views and ideas with other course participants. Furthermore, they will be shown how stop motion animations are used in class. The training sessions will be led by experienced teachers and professors with first-hand experience in demonstrating innovative practice and useful educational resources.

Digital Stories can be used to explain a concept, to reflect on a personal experience, to retell a historical event, or to make an argument. We want to help teachers to meet the challenges of the 4th Education Revolution through integration of different school subjects into one digital story. This course is a great opportunity for participant to create STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) activities in the classroom. If you are struggling with keeping your students engaged and motivated, this Erasmus+ KA1 course might be the solution to your problem. Incorporating digital storytelling can not only improve your students’ motivation and digital skills but can also help them come out of their shells.

Many students love to tell stories but struggle with writing them down and experience a lot of stress when they have to write texts. Using their digital skills to create stories will increase their critical thinking and soft skills. Digital storytelling is the practice of using digital tools such as timelines, audio, videos and images to create non-traditional forms of scholarship. We are no longer required to rely only on text to explain concepts in our writing. Traditional online articles are now becoming interactive storytelling experiences. Тhis course will cover five digital storytelling tools and how they help create more interactive experiences for readers.

• Canva
• ThingLink
• Piktochart
• TimelineJS
• StoryMapJS

Skills focus:

• Creativity
• Self-expression
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Persistence
• Problem solving

Benefits

• Include Storytelling in their lessons
• Have knowledge on how to build captivating stories, and structure narratives
• Further develop IT skills and their application in the classroom
• Have awareness of storytelling processes and elements, building suspense, backstory, the plot