http://www.xplanazine.com/2003/04/integrating-narrative-into-online-learning-materials Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:15:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://www.xplanazine.com/2003/04/integrating-narrative-into-online-learning-materials#comment-359 Rob Reynolds Thu, 17 Apr 2003 03:11:00 +0000 http://www.xplanazine.com/2003/04/integrating-narrative-into-online-learning-materials#comment-359 I am a big fan of storytelling in my classes - the students do creative storytelling every week and share that with the other students in class by publishing on the web and in our class discussion board. And here's what's interesting - in a very natural way the students often evolve FRAME TALES in which to provide a meta narrative for their stories! and they do this spontaneously: the storytelling urge starts to organize their work so that the assignment itself spawns a story of its own. probably the best example of that this semester is a student who organized a set of Little Red Riding Hood stories as a DREAM CYCLE: http://students.ou.edu/G/Pattya.J.Ganjanathavat-1/story2.html this was a spontaneous choice on the student's part: her assignment was to tell a story and provide a COMMENTARY on the story, but instead of writing a traditional commentary she spontaneously turned that commentary into the form of another STORY, a dream narrative, framing the content of the assignment. the impulse to storytelling is very strong indeed! far greater than the impulse to write an analytical essay (which usually happens only under duress). I am a big fan of storytelling in my classes - the students do creative storytelling every week and share that with the other students in class by publishing on the web and in our class discussion board. And here’s what’s interesting - in a very natural way the students often evolve FRAME TALES in which to provide a meta narrative for their stories! and they do this spontaneously: the storytelling urge starts to organize their work so that the assignment itself spawns a story of its own. probably the best example of that this semester is a student who organized a set of Little Red Riding Hood stories as a DREAM CYCLE:
http://students.ou.edu/G/Pattya.J.Ganjanathavat-1/story2.html
this was a spontaneous choice on the student’s part: her assignment was to tell a story and provide a COMMENTARY on the story, but instead of writing a traditional commentary she spontaneously turned that commentary into the form of another STORY, a dream narrative, framing the content of the assignment.
the impulse to storytelling is very strong indeed! far greater than the impulse to write an analytical essay (which usually happens only under duress).

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