Tell Your Story – Storytelling in education for the reintegration of early school leavers

Tell Your Story project was designed to explore the use of digital storytelling and storymapping in education in order to contrast early school leaving. The most successful pedagogical approaches for the reintegration of early school leavers in education are flexible,...

Tell Your Story: Online exhibition of digital life

Digital storytelling is a creative way to communicate stories, experiences or ideas using the potential of the tools offered by the web. This type of narrative is built by putting together various elements that can be combined such as video, audio, text, images, maps....

Tell your story: stories of many young people told through digital tools

Storytelling and digital story mapping: educational tools made available to our international young people to tell us part of their personal life paths related to early school leaving. From 18th to 22nd September 2017 the Tell Your Story training course took place in...

Tell your story: Storytelling, a milestone for preventing early school leaving

The second transnational meeting of project Tell your story took place in Vienna, Austria on  14– 15 June 2017 and saw the participation of all six partner organizations: die Berater (that hosted the meeting, Austria), Pistes Solidaires (Project Coordinator, France),...

Contrast early school leaving with digital storytelling

Tell Your Story project was designed to explore the use of digital storytelling and storymapping in education in order to contrast early school leaving.

“We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn’t a stronger connection between people than storytelling.”

-Jimmy Neil Smith, Director of the International Storytelling Center

The project

Tell Your Story aims at exploring the use of  digital  storytelling  and  storymapping  in  education  to contrast early school leaving.

Objectives

Motivating early school leavers to re-enter lifelong learning and vpreventing young people at risk to prematurely drop out of school or vocational education.

Partners

Who are we? Know more about the project partners.

Outputs

Download our materials to learn more about the use of storytelling and story-mapping in education

Stories

Each partner organisation engaged a group of early school leavers in the creation of multimedia stories and maps.

Storytelling

Digital storytelling is a creative way to communicate stories, experiences or ideas using the potential of the tools offered by the web. This type of narrative is built by putting together various elements that can be combined such as video, audio, text, images, maps.
Well-told stories are very powerful artefacts.

Story mapping 

A particular type of storytelling is the one based on maps: digital story mapping.

Story mapping is a technique that utilizes graphic organizers and combines interactive maps and multimedia content into user experiences. Story Maps use geographical location to present information and tell the story of a place, event, issue, trend, or pattern in a geographic context.

“Story Maps” initiative has opened the possibility for anyone to tell and share their story (http://storymaps.esri.com/)

Research

The research phase is based on the results of previous projects related to early school leavers and on the topics of digital mapping and storytelling. It explores policies at different scales, strategies for engagement, the reported use of tools, pedagogical approaches, success stories and concludes with recommendations that influence the next stage of the project.

Producing training modules

Depending on the results of the research, the project foresees the production of the following  modules:

  • How to tell a life story;
  • Learning module: Media production skills.

These two outputs are the learning modules for the training course that will take place in Palermo in September 2017 during which early school leavers will be trained to gain digital competences; then, they will put them into practice by producing visual materials that later will be presented to the public.

Online exhibition of digital life stories

Each partner organisation engaged a group of early school leavers in the creation of multltimedia stories and maps. Check out the Storymaps they have produced!

News

Tell Your Story: Online exhibition of digital life

Digital storytelling is a creative way to communicate stories, experiences or ideas using the potential of the tools offered by the web. This type of narrative is built by putting together various elements that can be combined such as video, audio, text, images, maps....

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