text on left, voice memos icon on right.

Activity 8 – Enhanced Storytelling

Animation to enhance storytelling

For day 8 of #12DaysofCreativity we will explore how to enhance your storytelling/literacy skills by building a scene and adding some animation to bring it to life. We will aim to make something like this:

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In order to make this style of video, there are a few things we should consider.

  1. What story or poem do we want our pupils to recite?
  2. Where will they find/download content? There are websites such as Noun Project and Pixabay
  3. What apps will be useful? For this example we used Voice Memos to record our reciting of the poem, and Keynote to build the scene and animation. 
  4. Once the animation/scene is created – what can pupils do to enhance it further? To add in more of a creative flair? Creativity never stops – it evolves. 

For more ideas on ways in which you can introduce creativity into your learning and teaching practice, check out the Everyone Can Create guides from Apple Education. 

ECCreate guides
Have a go yourself.
Follow the steps in the video below:
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You can download the referenced in this post from OneDrive here

Try the activity for yourself and share your finished podcast with us on social media @digilearnscot using #12DaysofCreativity