Activities/Story

About Story

 

The Story Activity prompts learner to tell a story by displaying images at random.

 

Where to get Story

The Story activity is soon to be available for download from the Sugar activity portal: Story

The source code is available on the Sugar Labs Gitorious server.

Using Story

Simply launch the activity and nine images will appear. The learner should try to tell a story that ties the images together into a comprehensive narrative.

The Toolbars

 

from left to right
Activity-toolbar Button
opens standard Sugar activity toolbar
Reload-images Button
loads nine new images
Stop Button
used to exit the activity

Learning with Story

Story is a fun way to get children to engage in narration. Simply generate some images and let the children's imagination do the rest.

Extending Story

  • Ask the students to transcribe and refine their stories using the Sugar Write activity. (They can save to the Journal the images used to prompt their story by typing Alt-1 and then embed this image into their Write document.)
  • Story can be shared, so the narration can be created amongst multiple students. They can chain together a story by taking turns; each turn involving generating narration for one image.

Modifying Story

  • Add new images to story by putting them in the images folder of the activity.

Your suggestions for enhancements and/or use cases...

Where to report problems

You can soon report bugs and make feature requests on our bug-tracking system (You need to create an account first). To list all open tickets of Portfolio you can use query component=Story. You are also welcome to leave comments/suggestions on the [[Talk:Activities/Story] page.

Credits

Story was written and is maintained by User:Walter. He was inspired in part by Claudia Urrea.

Most of the images are from the The Noun Project.