digital storytelling & the narrative & computing education

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21-DIGITAL STORYTELLING WITHDATA STRUCTURES & ALGORITHMS

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Integrating technology-enhanced teaching methods to a HigherEd Computing course

DATA STRUCTURES & ALGORITHMS WITH DIGITAL STORIES

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Ari Korhonen & Marianna VivitsouAalto University & University of Helsinki


21C-DIGITAL STORYTELLING @ANALYSISPatterns of/in narrative

e.g., Fiction/non-fiction/documentary (genre studies)

Placed in Cultural/historical context (:relevance)

Approaches to story in films: semiological/object-oriented (what are the structures underlying

expression)(Post-theory): Specific problems require specific solutions: narrative &

understanding & development & emotional engagement

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QUESTION SEEKING RESPONSE


How do we construct the narrative in computing?

Who do we tell our story to and what for?

What channels fit best to our digital stories?


WHAT MAKES A STORY?

• The dimensions of the Story• Narrative: chains & sequences of events

‒Characters, setting, chain of events ‒What devices we use to tell a story, e.g., metaphors, similes,

personifications (think of fairy tales: e.g., the stepmother in Snow white, the mirror in Alice, the pumpkin in Cinderella)

‒ When a story moves from one medium to the other, the plot (or discourse) changes, while the story remains largely unchanged (Chatman 1980)

• Style: how the story is filmed, shot & edited, what sound effects are used etc.

• The audience: real & imagined



CS@THE NARRATIVE I

• Where do we NOT find narrative? • Documentaries, animated films, experimental & avant garde, short films,

our lives? (they exist even if we are NOT aware of them ...) • The narrative has a purpose even if it looks purposeless, or absent

• Propose/enunciate an idea, a dialogue, a new product • It has a structure even if it is a paradox• It takes some degree of technique

• Setting, plot, perspective, theme/message, characters



CS@THE NARRATIVE II


“…The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his

castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.

Few media of creation are […] so readily capable of realizing grand

conceptual structures…”

Fred Brooks


CS@THE NARRATIVE III


Data types as characters their definition creates the diegesis (the

“world” of the story)their complexity is that of the storypolymorphism: same stimuli bring

different responses

pure diegeses: computer games

real life as pure diegesis: e.g, the banking world

Ch. Papadimitriou https://youtu.be/RPKzF2tFgfs


@THE NARRATIVE ARC

climax

resolution

exposition


Constructing an audience Message: addressor – addressee

• Author, narrator, technology user

• With a community in mind

•an imagined community assumes an

imagined identity

Text-based and video-based storytelling is a space where narrative practices meet with pedagogical goals in the process of authoring the self as narrator and networked user in encounters online

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STORYTELLING & INTERPRETATION


While authoring narratives

& engaged with

symbolic work


HOW WE INTERPRET MATTERS


“Algorithms are not

neutral. Algorithms

do not function

apart from people”

T. Gillespie


DIGITAL STORYTELLING 3.0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOKVwRIyWdg&feature=youtu.be

What is the purpose

underlying the choice

of these time stamps

09: 23

10: 46

14: 02

15: 00


POSSIBLE WAYS TO TELL A @DSTORY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=HRzg0SzFLQQ

What are the elements

underlying the

storytelling here?

Think of:

Style, audience, channel


OTHER POSSIBLE WAYS TO TELL A @DSTORY

Example interview @google

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKu_SEDAykw

The fastest way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaNLJf8xzC4&feature=youtu

.be



& MORE POSSIBLE WAYS TO TELL A @DSTORY


• The element of sound

• Or about the style of digital

storytelling

https://edvisto.com/story/BD5

aMzDz

https://www.youtube.com/wat

ch?v=WXtiUeAYC0c


TYPES OF DIGITAL STORIES



THE PRACTICAL OF @DSTORYTELLING

Timelines

Deliverables

Submissions

Deadlines

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/k02/project/


Criteria

Content learning

Social skills

Sharing with

audiences

Originality

Multi-literacies


EVALUATION: HORIZONTAL & VERTICAL

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Content learning skills (topic/question/task: Relevance)

The DS shows limited understanding of the topic/question/task. There is no clearevidence about how thetopic and the story relate.

Only some aspect of the topic is discussed in the DS. Basic connections between concepts are presented.

The DS presents relevant concepts and connections between them. Concepts are described in a detailed way.

The DS clearly shows the connection between concepts by paralleling, comparing and evaluating them. Also explanations and searches for relations between concepts are included.

The DS shows many-sided understanding in describing the topic, as well as skillful use of concepts and their connections. Storytellers also describe hypotheses and generalizations about the topic. Performance is creative and insightful.


OPENING UP THE PROJECT WORK!



CHANGING THE SCRIPT?


It matters to know more about our virtual selves as authors, narrators and computer users

It targets meaningful communicative practice

Idealized view of the popular culture

Popular networking practices

Digital stories can change the ritual in education

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

TECHNOLOGY IS ABOUT A GOOD STORY

NARRATIVE IS ABOUT A POWERFUL STORY

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