This article is about digital stories more specifically the art of writing a digital story. The author explains the Take Six method to storytelling in depth and provides an example of an elementary teacher teaching Take Six to her students. The teacher wrote two versions of the same experience to show her students the difference between telling the reader what happened, and actually putting the reader in the moment (showing). The teacher’s example was about a negative experience with her program director that almost made her not become a teacher. Version 1 was a summary of what happened to her, and in version 2, she transformed her story by using the take six method to get her students to experience the emotion in the story.
Reading this article opened my eyes to storytelling. The article does a good job of describing what needs to be included in a digital story. I really like how the author gave an explicit example of what is telling verses showing the reader. Storytelling seems like a very effective way of sharing experiences with on another and would like to learn more about how I can use this in my classroom.
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