TES522: Storytelling for ELT

      

Busan University of Foreign Studies Graduate School of TESOL TES 522: Storytelling for ELT Fall 2014: September 6 ~ December 19, 2014 Jeff Lebow pufslebow@gmail.com Storybridges.net

 Course Resources   Group Notes   Assignments

FINAL TASKS

Part#1 - Dig Deeper Presentations

Dig a little deeper into an aspect of storytelling that you find especially interesting or useful. This can be related to something we covered in class or something we didn’t get around to from the Resource page. Prepare up to 15 minutes of a presentation, lecture, and/or activity demonstration that will be done in our final class.  This should include something new that we have not discussed.

Possible Topics include;

• Historical Overview
• Oral Delivery Skills, Verbal and Nonverbal Techniques
• Storybooks: Resources and Reviews
• Storytelling activities for EFL Classrooms
• Storytelling and Language Skills
• Digital Storytelling
• Cultural and Gender Dimensions of Storytelling
• Storytelling in Gameplay
• Music in Storytelling
• Gender and Cultural Issues in Storytelling
• Anything else related to storytelling that you’d like to explore

Part#2 - Reflection Application Paper

Write a one page (about 300 words) paper on

• What (if anything) did you find useful during this course? 
• What role might storytelling play in your future teaching and what (if anything) will you apply from this course?
• Which aspects of storytelling are you interested in learning more about in the future?

Week#14 - Culture in Storytelling

ONLINE RESOURCES

Cultural Stories

http://www.worldoftales.com/

Long list of Folk texts

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/folktexts.html

Myths & Legends

http://home.comcast.net/~chris.s/myth.html

Folk Tales from around the World - YouTube Playlist

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT67RSvE2YqJaK2R3t0jShSGaAcOHLzy3

Korean Folk Tales

Ten Influential Modern and Contemporary Korean Writers

http://theculturetrip.com/asia/south-korea/articles/a-century-of-tumult-ten-important-modern-korean-authors/

American Culture through FiIm
http://blog.interexchange.org/career-training-usa/2011/11/02/a-glimpse-of-american-culture-through-film/

Disney Movies and Racism
http://disneyandmovies.pbworks.com/w/page/17905683/FrontPage

10 Racist Storybookshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCdBmddPa1Q

Stereotypes in Children's Media
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT281Oxxg1sYiJzASexeyS3RqecLmge5t

Yellow Face - a History of Racist Asian Stereotypes

http://yellow-face.com/

Where Do Koreans' Ideas about Race Come From?

http://metropolitician.blogs.com/scribblings_of_the_metrop/2006/02/where_do_korean.html

History of BlackFace in Korea

http://populargusts.blogspot.kr/2012/03/three-decades-of-black-face-in-korea.html

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Discussion Questions

• What are your favorite traditional Korean stories, folk tales, or myths?
  Which ones best represent Korean culture?  How so?

• Which modern stories (novels, movies, poems, etc.) best represent periods of Korean history or aspects of its culture and society?  How so?
  
• Are there Korean stories that bother you or seem to misrepresent parts of Korean culture?
  
• What are some of your favorite traditional stories or folk tales from other cultures?

• What examples of racism or cultural misrepresentations can you think of in traditional or modern stories from Korea or elsewhere?

• Which cultural stories (Korean or not) do you think teach a valuable lesson?
  
• How have you or might you use cultural stories in your teaching?

Week#13 - Gender in Storytelling

Readings

Gender Roles in Children’s Picture Books

Gender stereotypes plague children’s picture books

Poor Storytelling and the Gender Debate

Gender-specific children’s books ‘are easier to sell’, insists children's book publisher

Why Does Gender Matter?

Videos

Sexism, Strength and Dominance- Masculinity in Disney Films

Subtle Sexism: Gender Inequality in Our Media

Childhood Gender Roles in Adulthood

Comic Book MOOC Playlist

Discussion Questions

• What were your favorite stories as a child? Which gender were the main characters? Describe those characters?
• If you could play any role in any story, which would you want to play and why?
• Who are your favorite male characters from any story or movie? Describe them and why do you like them?
• Who are your favorite female characters from any story or movie? why do you like them?
• Which male and female characters have you disliked the most? Why?
• Do you think the criticism of gender balance in stories is overblown? Might it just represent natural or desirable social norms?
• Have you ever seen gender portrayals in stories, movies, or comic books that bothered you? Which ones? Why?
• Do you think certain stories appeal more to boys or girls? How so?
• When sharing personal narratives, do you think men and women (boys and girls) differ in storytelling style? How so?
• How would you describe traditional and modern gender roles in Korean storytelling (books, movies, folk tales, etc). Is there much difference between Korea and other cultures?
• How much do you (will you) consider gender portrayal when choosing a story to read, teach, or share with your child?

Week#12 - Digital Storytelling for Advanced Language Learning

Storytelling Podcasts

• NPR: StoryCorps Podcast
  When Living Out Of A Car, It's Hard To Feel At Home
   
• The Moth Podcast
  Texas Hold' Em, Kin, and Cloistered Nuns
   
• Death, Sex, & Money
  This Senator Saved My Life
   
• This American Life
  Switched at Birth
   
• Hardcore History
• True Story
• Porchlight Storytelling
• Love + Radio
• More Podcasts at: Podbay.fm Podcast Directory

Audio books

Podiobooks	Podiobooks offers complete books in episodic form so you can get just a chapter at a time
Open Culture	Open Culture has a very respectable collection of great audio books, mostly classics, available for free in a variety of downloadable formats from all over the Web.
Internet Archive	The Internet Archive has a very good collection of free audio books and poetry recordings from a eclectic variety of sources.
Librivox	Librivox is an entirely volunteer-curated collection of free audio books that are in the public domain. Volunteers read chapters of these books, and the chapters are then placed online for public consumption.
Learn Out Loud	Learn Out Loud is a gigantic collection of free audio books, lectures, and educational podcasts.
Project Gutenberg	Project Gutenberg one of the oldest and largest sites on the Web, offering thousands of free, public domain books both to read and to listen to.

Podcatchers

• Stitcher.com
• iTunes
• Feedly   How-to    opml
• Tunein.com (live radio)

Videos

• George S. Best Stories Ever
• Piers Morgan's Life Stories
• World Creation Myths and Stories

Playback Speed control

• Android Playback speed
•  iPad/iPhone apps like SmarterPlayer

Media players with speed control

• Gom Player (x, c keys)
• WMP  Enhancements / Play Speed Settings
• VLC: View/Status bar, bottom scroll

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Next Week Materials: Gender in Storytelling

• Gender, Storytelling and Culture
• Exploring Gender Identity in Early Childhood through Story Dictation and Dramatization
• Barbie can be a computer engineer ... but only with help of a man

Week#11 - Digital Storytelling

What is Digital Storytelling?
From : http://digitalstorytelling.coe.uh.edu/page.cfm?id=27&cid=27
Digital storytelling at its most basic core is the practice of using computer-based tools to tell stories. There are a wealth of other terms used to describe this practice, such as digital documentaries, computer-based narratives, digital essays, electronic memoirs, interactive storytelling, etc.; but in general, they all revolve around the idea of combining the art of telling stories with a variety of multimedia, including graphics, audio, video, and Web publishing.

Online Resources

General Digital Storytelling Resources

• Digitial Storytelling EVO Session
• DigitalStorytelling for Kids EVO Session  EVO2015 Info here (January 12 to February 15, 2015)  2014 Sessions
• Kathy Schrock's Megaguide to Digital Storytelling
• Center for Digital Storytelling

Digital Storytelling Examples

• Santee Students
• Tech2Learn (halfway down the page)
• CDS Playlists
• Web2storytelling Wiki
• Webtools4Educators
• UWM Students

Tools

• Zooburst (make your own 3D book) 
• StoryboardThat.com  (friendly, powerful comic strip generator)
  Curated Storyboards    Lesson Materials   Recent Boards (copy)
• Toondoo.com - Browse Toons   * How-to Guide
• StoryJumper  (how to, create, examples)
• Storybird.com  Allows users to make their own visual stories using contributed illustrations. Thousands of user generated stories to read and discuss.
  (example Seven Ways to Survive School) 
• Utellstory.com  Overview   How-to Video  Example
• ZimmerTwins.com
• Slidestory - add audio narration to your original stories
• Photostory (for Windows) - download and installation required (tutorial videos here)

Make 'fill in the blank' Stories

• British Council Storymaker
• Storyteller
• Madglibs.com

Graphic Organizers & Worksheets

• ISL Collective
• http://eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/
• http://www.successlink.org/gti/lesson_unit-viewer.asp?lid=2677
• http://edhelper.com/teachers/Storytelling_graphic_organizers.htm
• http://www.eslprintables.com/speaking_worksheets/story_telling/
• Example 1 (story map) Example 2 ('What happened?' Worksheet)

Week#10 - Language Skills & Online Tools (Part#1)

Discussion Questions

• Can you think of times when hearing a story has affected your behavior or actions?
• Describe significant experiences you’ve had learning via ‘fact presentation’ (e.g. reading bullet points or simple lecture). Which ones were effective or ineffective? Why?
• Describe significant experiences you’ve had learning via ‘storytelling’ (e.g.dramatic videos or a professor who told a lot of stories). Which ones were effective or ineffective? Why?
• In your past and present workplaces, how have bosses and supervisors gotten their message out via fact presentation vs. storytelling? Has it made a difference?
• What are some topics you currently teach via storytelling? How do you do it?
• What are some topics you currently (or will likely teach) via fact presentation that might be taught via storytelling instead? How would you do it? What would the challenges be?

Language Skill Activity Demonstrations

• Instructional: Jeff's Housing Vocab based on the NH Years
   
• Vocabulary/Grammar 'Make a Story' Activity (adapted from here , word lists from here)

Discussion

• How might you use storytelling-based activities to teach specific language skills
  
  
  • Grammar
  • Vocabulary
  • Speaking / Pronunciation
  • Listening
  • Reading
  • Writing

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Online Resources

Graphic Organizers & Worksheets

• ISL Collective
• http://eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/
• http://www.successlink.org/gti/lesson_unit-viewer.asp?lid=2677
• http://edhelper.com/teachers/Storytelling_graphic_organizers.htm
• http://www.eslprintables.com/speaking_worksheets/story_telling/
• Example 1 (story map) Example 2 ('What happened?' Worksheet)

Tools

• Zooburst (make your own 3D book) 
• StoryboardThat.com  (friendly, powerful comic strip generator)
• Storybird.com  Allows users to make their own visual stories using contributed illustrations. Thousands of user generated stories to read and discuss.
  (example Seven Ways to Survive School) 
• Slidestory - add audio narration to your original stories

Make 'fill in the blank' Stories

• British Council Storymaker
• Storyteller

General Digital Storytelling

• http://digistorytelling.pbworks.com/
• http://digitalstorytelling4kids.pbworks.com/
• http:/www.hongkiat.com/blog/digital-story-telling-tools/

Week#9 - Storytelling, Your Brain, & Teaching

Storybook Reading Feedback

• Don’t like your voice. Changeable?
• Pace
• Facial Expressions
• Vocal Expressions (for character clarification)
• Connecting with the audience - Events (ask questions, interventions) - Checks for Understanding

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The Science of Storytelling and your Brain

Readings  (print friendly Google Doc here)

• The Science Behind Storytelling
   
• Why Your Brain Loves Good Storytelling - Paul J. Zak - Harvard Business Review
   
• The Science of Storytelling: Why Telling a Story is the Most Powerful Way to Activate Our Brains

Videos

• How Storytelling Connects Both Sides of Your Brain
• Your Storytelling Brain | Big Think | Think Tank
• The Story of Storytelling
• Connecting our Global Brains 
• The Divided Brain

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Discussion Questions (for Week#10)

• Can you think of times when hearing a story has affected your behavior or actions? 
• Describe significant experiences you’ve had learning via ‘fact presentation’ (e.g. reading bullet points or simple lecture). Which ones were effective or ineffective? Why? 
• Describe significant experiences you’ve had learning via ‘storytelling’ (e.g.dramatic videos or a professor who told a lot of stories). Which ones were effective or ineffective? Why? 
• In your past and present workplaces, how have bosses and supervisors gotten their message out via fact presentation vs. storytelling? Has it made a difference? 
• What are some topics you currently teach via storytelling? How do you do it? 
• What are some topics you currently (or will likely teach) via fact presentation that might be taught via storytelling instead? How would you do it? What would the challenges be?