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 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
- Save-images to Journal Button
- saves an image to the Journal
- Record-audio Button
- record audio annotation
- Playback Button
- playback audio recording
- 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 and then embed this image into their Write document.)
- A spoken story (or notes) can be recorded to the Journal.
- 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 Story 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.