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Once Upon a Time: Digital Storytelling to Enrich Asynchronous Classrooms
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This presentation reports on an action research project that used collaborative digital storytelling activities to help increase student communication, engagement, interaction, and motivation in an asynchronous classroom. An intact class of university students participated in a 3-week study where they used Flipgrid (a video-sharing platform) to co-construct narrative stories. Participant motivation and engagement were measured through a qualitative survey. Storytelling has been considered a useful exercise for language learners because it offers an opportunity for meaning-focused use of the target language through narrative structures. While there is a gap in research on collaborative storytelling, an added benefit of it is that learners must negotiate for meaning as they co-construct a single story. With the current need for online classes, platforms such as Flipgrid enable learners to easily create, share, and respond to each other’s videos. While preliminary, results suggest that online collaborative digital storytelling will enrich the asynchronous classroom.
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