about storycookers & storypals

I. Storycookers - Question

“What can we do to help children unlearn prejudice

and preconceptions and thus become free to imagine?

At the same time, what can we do to empower them

with core abilities required for higher education,

careers, happiness and meaningful life?”

by Storycookers

Understand & Design Characters and Perspectives

Globally Collaborate in Intercultural Storytelling

Influence the World with Your Message

II. Storycookers

Vision

Mission

Trustworthy education engineering company that inspires authentic growth

and happiness in all stakeholders which empowers the company to

revolutionize global competency education for preteens.

Philosophy

All components of educational engineering at Storycookers must create

educational environment that support our program users to build growth

competency and apply them to global competency.

Enhance global competency of preteens by using intercultural

storytelling as ameans of collaboration for advancing values that

have personal, local, and global significance.

III. Storypals Program Manual

for Teacher-Mentors

Presented by Storycookers

STORYPALS 7 Process

Storypals Toolkit Version 3.0

Time for preparing my story journey.

Stage 1 - Stage 2 - Stage 3 - Stage 4 - Stage 5 - Stage 6 - Stage 7

Introduction of Authors

Story Kitchen Toolkit Version 3.0


Team Building

Time for preparing our story journey.



Time to create our unique character.

Storypals Characters



Story Recipes

Time to practice creating a story by inviting other storypal characters.

Once upon a time, ...

Everyday, …

One day, …

Because of that, …

Because of that, ...

Until finally, ...



Creating Our Story

Time to pick our favorite story recipe(s) and create our final story.



Time to reflect on our achievements, lessons learned, and feelings.

Epilogue



Time to publish our story to be shared with families and friends.

Publishing


Storypals Toolkits for 7 Stages


Stage 1. Introduction of Authors

I am...

1-1. Introduce yourself

1-2. Take an author profile photo

(You can choose to substitute the photo with a self-portrait.)


Our Ideas for Successful Collaboration

1.

2.

3.

2-1. Brainstorm your ideas for successful collaboration


Stage 2. Team Building

갈

등

카

드

1. Each person in the class write a probabl conflict situation on a card.

2. Collect all cards and mix the cards.

3. Each person pick a card.

4. Gather in teams and test collaboration strategies.

5. Make a short class presentation about your findings.

Conflic Cards

2-2. Test your ideas for successful collaboration




2-3. Select your know-how for successful collaboration

Our Know-how for Successful Collaboration

1.

2.

3.


[Food] [School]

[Sports] [Space]

3-1. Pick a topic card (or come up with a new topic card)


Stage 4. Story Recipes

[Food]

Bulgogi

Korean styled pizza.

Kimchi

Sea food jeon

dessert

red-bean sherbet

rice cake

rice

Bibimbob

injeolmi

Shinsollo

Topic

Stage 3. Storypals Characters

3-2. Expand your ideas on your topic


A: Character Keyword

Bibimbob

B:

Character Personality

Background Topic

spoon

vegetabl

e

Chili

material

Character keyword

Chili

hot

Character keyword

spicy

joyful

red

passi

onate


3-3. Focus your ideas



3-4. Sketch your character



3-5. Color your character

Character Profiling

Name:

Age:

Place of Birth:

Personality:

Special Aspects:

Recent Worries or Curiosity:

Dream or Wish:

3-6. Create a profile


4-1. Pick (a) storypal character(s) created by other authors



4-2. Experiment by creating various story recipes

Once upon a time, ...

Everyday, …

One day, …



Until finally, ...



5-1. Free Discussion

1) Preparation: - Select a team meber to be responsible of writing down discussion contents.

- Have empty papers, pens, and post-it papers ready.

2) Set a time limit and have each member write down ideas for the story on post-it papers.

There should be ONE idea writen down for ONE post-it.

3) When time is up, spread the post-it memos on a table or on a wall and group similar ideas together.

4) Discuss ideas for bridging the different set of ideas.

5) Take turns and speak out loud one sentence to create a story draft.

The team member in charge of writing down the discussion contents should write down the ideas.


Stage 5. Creating our Story

5-2. Storyboard Discussion

: Let’s link story draft with illustrations.

1) Find used papers and prepare storyboards by numbering the papers.

You choose between horizontal or vertical use of the storybaords.

2) Spread the storybaords on a table or a wall to discuss ideas.

On one side, you can sketch

corresponding illustrations for your

story.

On the other side, you can write

corresponding texts for your story.



5-3. Minibook Test

1) Make a minibook

2) Get feedbacks from friends outside your team, family members and teachers.

You can sketch your illustraion on the top.

You can write your story on the bottom.



5-4. Finalizing our Story

: Incorporate feedbacks to start finalizing your story.



5-5. Edit and Improve

: Continue to edit your story by checking grammars, spellings and contexts while improving the quality of

illustrations.

Upgrade!

Upgrade!

Upgrade!



Stage 6. Epilogue

Film message from the authors (About 3 minutes in total)

1) Greet your audience and riefly introduce team members

2) Briefly introduce storypal characters in the story

3) Share the main message that you want the audience to know

4) Thank and say goodbye to the audience

6-1. Message from the authors


Stage 6. Epilogue

6-2. Write a Team EpilogueThroughout this project, we…


Stage 7. Publishing*

(*In some cases, this stage may be done by Story Mentor or other supporters.)

7-1. Compile Image Files

● Scanned illustrations and photos

7-2. Compile Text Files

● Typed author profile, story and epilogue

3. Share everything with your Story Mentor


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