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DA#28 – Building Stories

Can digital tools help children to develop language?

Yes!

By listening to the story and the song using technological resources (Tablet, PC and Smartphone), children develop language, above all by retelling the story, recording the song and the stories made with the families using the different digital applications. In the end, using the App Book Creator, you can build a book, with the stories elaborated in collaboration with the families and create a theater performed by the children.

An idea from

AESA educators- Barreiro-Portugal

Time

4 activities (20 to 30 minutes each)

Age

3-6 years

Objective

  1. Establish a relationship between writing and oral message.
  2. Use digital tools to help the child develop language.
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#language #storytelling #emotions #theselfandtheother#Bookcreator#digitalbook

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DA#24 – In the Snow Covered Valley

Can the natural environment inspire the creation of digital stories and characters?

Nature is the protagonist and muse of collaborative digital storytelling. Children explore a natural environment  with the family and play at creating characters using the materials they find there. Starting from the created characters, the children at school collaborate on the conception of a story and animate the various parts using the stop motion technique. The children also act as the narrators in the story, using in some parts all the languages present in class or in the family.

An idea from

Giulia Benvenuto – Loredana di Rubbo – Vuerich Gigliola – Vidoni Michela – Monica Blasotti – Valentina Martina, ECEC educators at the Kindergartens “Costantino Cologna”, Tarvisio – “Gianni Rodari”, Tarvisio – “C.Collodi”, Ugovizza – “Scuola dell’Infanzia di Chiusaforte” – Italy.

In co-design with Zaffiria.

Time

7 activities (20 to 50 min each)

Age

5 years

Objective

  1. Exploring nature.
  2. Developing the ability to read images.
  3. Use vocabulary related to lived experiences.
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#storytelling #nature #language #stopmotion #images

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DA#23 – Audio Experimentation with Watermusic

Is it possible to make your own version of Händel’s water music with water sounds?

Audio puzzles and sound experimentations are suitable for children from the age of 3 and a lot of fun. First, children can search for random sounds in the environment and record them with a simple recording app. While listening, the children can guess together what they hear. At home, parents and children look for special water sounds, create and record them. In kindergarten, children can talk about their experiences with water sounds and listen to Händel’s original “water music”. Inspired by classical music, children can mix live water sounds in the kindergarten with the recording of the classical music. In the end they create their own version of Händel’s masterpiece.

An idea from

JFF-Institut für Medienpädagogik
tested with Inklusives Luise-Kiesselbach-Haus, Munich, Germany

Time

3 activities (30 minutes each)

Age

3-5 years

Objective

  1. Get to know auditory design and expression possibilities.
  2. Implement own ideas in audio and music recordings (e.g., sound stories).
  3. Expand personal skills like auditory perception of the environment and auditory training.
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#language #storytelling #sound #environment #art

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DA#22 – Speaking Portraits

What would my favorite book’s character say, my grand-grandma’s pictures or my pokemon cards if they could speak?

In this atelier, kids will learn to use apps to make still pictures speaks. They will need to take pictures with digital devices and import them in the apps. Then they record themselves speaking to create the character’s voice.

With their parents, they can make their old family pictures speak. At the end, all this work can be edited by the teacher/educator and exhibited in school.

Discover the activation trailer here : https://tube.tchncs.de/w/oWydQKJSTbQ9b9VLiANGCB

An idea from

La Fabulerie, Marseilles, France, Tested with: Ecole Maternelle Pommier, Marseilles, France

Time

3 activities of 30 minutes each

Age

5-6 years

Objective

  1. Learn to tell a story.
  2. Improving language skills.
  3. Discover special effects.
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#storytelling #language #art #portrait #stillandmovingimage #acting

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DA#21 – A Stop Motion Film

How can animated images become a film?

Yes! 

Is it possible to make a film using pictures taken in class? The answer is yes! In this workshop, children will first learn how to distinguish still images from animated images and play with moving images by creating a folioscope and a thaumatrope. After learning how to take photos, the children will be invited to make a small stop motion animation film. The scenario of this small film can build on a story the class knows and appreciates, such as a children’s album. In class or at home with their family, the children will imagine a scenario and make the characters (modelling clay, toys, paper) and the set. With the educator’s help, the children will photograph the images that make up the story, put these photos in a sequence and animate their film.

An idea from

Florence Fery, Belgrade municipal school – Belgium, in co-design with Média Animation ASBL

Time

10 activities for a total of 10 hours in school, and  3 activities at home.

Age

5-6 years

Objective

  1. Distinguish between a still and an animated image.
  2. Illustrate the milestones of a story. 
  3. Discover and understand the stages involved in making a small object animation movie.
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#language #photography #movement #stopmotion #sound #animatedmovie #mediaeducation

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DA#6 – Meet My Soft Toy

Can toys encourage children to talk about themselves?

Children’s favourite toys become a valuable opportunity to talk about themselves and discover new things about each other. At home children (with the help of the parents)  will take a picture of their favourite soft toy. At school, then, with the educators, children will tell what they like and why they chose that toy in various episodes of a podcast. Each photo will be then linked to a Qr code to create an “art” exhibition with the toys and their “stories”  in Kindergarten.

An idea from

Romina Copetti, Maria Teresa Sillitto, Sara Veljacà, Cristiana Paolini,  ECEC educators at the Kindergarten “Non ti scordar di me – Grisulute – Avasinis”, Alesso di Trasaghis –  Italy.

In co-design with Zaffiria.

Time

4 activities (30 min. each)

Age

3 years

Objective

  1. Expressing emotions and feelings.
  2. Listening and dialogue skills.
  3. Psycho-physical well-being of the child.
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#emotions #language #podcast #QRcode #photography

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DA#1 – The Mascot’s Trip

How can we convey a message using a photograph?

Building on the journey of a class mascot between school and home, this workshop explores an educational approach to photography. Specifically, it consists in preparing and documenting through photos the adventures of the mascot travelling from family to family. Through this approach, the children handle the photo media both in terms of production (shooting) and of reception (analysis, impact of the point of view, etc.) to sharpen their perspective.

An idea from

Kareen Krief, Belgrade municipal school – Belgium, in co-design with Média Animation ASBL

Time

7 activities at school for a total of 5 hours and 4 activities at home

Age

3-5 years

Objective

  1. Use a transitional object (mascot) to encourage speech and language within the group and to develop an emotional link between the classroom and the home
  2. Understand that the content of a photograph is the result of a specific intention of the photographer 
  3. Taking self-portraits and develop creative autonomy through the use of a camera
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#emotions #language #photography #selfie #mediaeducation