Digital Storytelling: Brave Turtle Bobo Learns A Lot!



HELLO ALL!

Today I will be presenting you the penultimate task of this blog, for this term of course! For this week's task, I am going to be talking about is DIGITAL STORYTELLING!!!!

First of all, let me inform you a bit about digital storytelling. Digital storytelling is basically creating a short story with computer-based tools. Anyone can create digital stories with different aims. Digital stories can be created to tell a story, to raise awareness about an issue, to share opinions, or to show how to do something. It is much easier to create computer-based content with the help of some websites such as animatron, which we used. Animatron enables you to create stories easily. It offers numerous different templates for you to create any type of animation.

As the first step of our task, my friend Esma( you can visit her perfectly-designed website by clicking here ) and I had a discussion about what to do and decided on creating a children's story with a beautiful message. We created our script with the inspiration from a Scandinavian folktale that left a great impression on us. Then, we made research to decide on which tool to use in order to create our animation and we found animatron really effective. During this process, we had the chance to discover and try different animation and editing tools. After creating our animation we started to work on recording voices. We edited some parts iğn order to create different voices. 

At the end we were content with our final production. We liked the creation process and the story as well. It was such a fun journey that was full of discovery and learning. If you would like to see our work, you can watch it here!


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