Vandy Speaks

Vandy speaks.
Today I am glad to speak about Vandy, Vandy speaks.
Sorry for the trivial words game, but this is what speaking could be. I mean in the noble meaning of playing.
Like creating music or theatre, fulling your voice of truly passionate art, the best one.
Your personal story.
This is some of the beautiful aspects I found in the videos I watched on the platform created by this smart group on Youtube.
Do it, you can see there a various kaleidoscope of feelings and ideas, experiences and visions, through a sort of multicolored storytelling.
Color in a general significance, like musical notes in a rich score of a clever jazz composition.
Follow the YT channel and FB page, they deserve it.




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Digital Storytelling by Learning Abroad Students

How would a blog named Storytelling around the world like mine could have been plausible without speaking of this?
In fact, today I want to share with you some info about Digital Storytelling by Learning Abroad Students, from University of Minnesota, USA.
I think that is a wonderful idea to tell stories about a country.
Even if you cannot say everything about an entire nation, you may watch some of it with the perfect opened eyes: the ones of a young student, curious and attentive, hungry for culture and more than all stories.
That’s it, their geographic digital storytelling videos, with words and picture are a sort of collection of little stories, inside a fragment or a phrase, the voice’s emotion and the underlining of a particular word.
In the Youtube Channel you may watch clips from Japan (1, 2, 3), from China (1,2), from Iceland, from Laos, from Germany (1,2), from New Zealand and from Italy.
I mainly appreciated the last, since that is my country.
Here is the official website.

Spanish Digital Storytelling

I know, I have already said that, but I want to repeat because next video proves again that with digital storytelling learning foreign languages is easier.
And if you have a good one all is perfect.
From the video description: This is an idea that I got from Alice Ayel (www.aliceayel.com) a Spanish teacher in Germany.
For this activity students were divided in groups of two or three depending on class size. Students were asked to write a story using structures and vocabulary acquired during CI lessons. They also had to make characters and other props out of paper. Once their project was ready, each group had to come to the "filming table" to record. One student narrated the story (no reading allowed) and the other worked with the props, characters and sound effects. If a third student is present, s/he would film. When they are done filming and telling their stories, we all get to sit, watch and enjoy the videos using a projector. I thought students could complete this project in one class period (60 min) but it turned out to be a little longer than expected. (120 min).

Here is the clip is from Spanish Cuentos (Stories) Channel.

African Storytelling at School

Today I share with you this interesting video where Beth Seletos and Karen Hall teach their J.W. Mitchell High School students about African Storytelling with a fun has-on learning experience, clip offered by Pasco County Schools channel, from Florida.
I think it is a very good example of how students could make experience of world storytelling at school.
Here is the video:

Storytelling for under 5's

What can I say? Even if the video quality is not the best, this is a very good example of storytelling with kids.
The storyteller Deborah Peck perfectly knows the fundamental principles: she use voice, telling and singing, face expressions and body acting, and more than all she shows to play with kids, the real secret.
Here is the clip:

Teaching Proficiency Through Reading and Storytelling

Today I am glad to show you the very interesting work of Adriana Ramirez.

She offers what I define the best way to make school: teaching Spanish with reading and storytelling (TPRS).
I found it very good even watching her clips.
Here is a description from the youtube channel: TPRS is a fun, amazing, and powerful way to learn languages. The results we get when teaching with this method are incredible! In these videos I am teaching first year Spanish students who are in grade 9. These students have never been exposed to Spanish before. In our school, we work on the semester system, and this is week 10 into the 18-week semester. Each video is part of the whole TPRS cycle (teaching one story). I use the stories in the textbook that I wrote for first year Spanish: Teaching Spanish with Comprehensible Input Through Storytelling, and Learning Spanish with Comprehensible Input Through Storytelling. I also published books for Grade 10. Books for Grades 11 & 12 are well on their way.

And here is a video:

A Pig and the Tree

Today I am glad to share with you a nice storytelling, with original puppets and voices by two young storytellers with a lot of energy, Cyntia and Yulvita.
The story has an interesting message, you may read it at the end of the clip.

Seorin & Linah's original Storytelling

Well, this is great. Look these two talented very young storytellers.
I think we have a great carreer ahead, no joking
I read also this is an original story by Seorin.
What can I say? Well done!
Clip by Janelle Odate:

Creative Storytelling Project

Creative Storytelling Project (ASL storytelling) by Erika Linstaedt and and Joshua Branscomb, Professor Rosalinda Riscasa

Storytelling in Africa video by Meshack Warambo

"Joka Maringo and the ants", storytelling video by Meshack Warambo, in a class being brought back to life through storytelling sessions, Kenia (Africa).

"Human beings must listen, human beings must speak..."

Italian Storytelling: Insegnare con il digital storytelling