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ERIC Number: EJ1279150
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 27
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ISSN: EISSN-1949-4289
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Writing a Folktale as an Activity of Written Expression: Digital Folktales with StoryJumper
Educational Policy Analysis and Strategic Research, v15 n3 p159-185 2020
One of the technological tools utilized in written expression is digital storytelling. The purpose of this study is to investigate digital folktale writing activities as a means of written expression on the basis of the opinions of pre-service teachers. In line with this aim, how digital storytelling website was used, the contributions of digital story writing, pre-service teachers' collaborative digital story writing experiences, benefits of digital story writing, and problems pre-service teachers experienced were also investigated. The digital stories prepared by the pre-service teachers were also analyzed in terms of the pre-determined criteria. The participants of the study employing the case study design, one of the qualitative research designs, are 92 pre-service elementary school teachers. The pre-service teachers divided into groups prepared 22 different digital folktales by using the StoryJumper website. The data of the study were collected through semi-structured interviews and documents. In the analysis of the interview data, the descriptive analysis technique was used. The folktales prepared were analyzed by means of document analysis based on the pre-determined criteria. As a result of the analyses, the data collected from the interviews were gathered under 6 themes. The pre-service teachers stated positive opinions about the digital storytelling website they had used. In addition, it was concluded that digital storytelling activity improved the pre-service teachers' written expression skills, contributed to their personal and professional development and that it was activity suitable for group work. In addition, it was revealed that the lowest scores were taken from the dimension of adding audio while they received better scores from the dimensions of originality of the topic and pictures used. And they received full points from the dimensions of the characters in the folktale and ending.
International Association of Educators. Egitim Fakultesi Dekanligi, Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Canakkale 17100, Turkey. e-mail: secretary@inased.org; Web site: http://epasr.penpublishing.net/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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