This semester I was very lucky to have entered a seminar that I have been after for three (3) years! It’s an online seminar, combined with two meetings, called “Digital Storytelling” – and I have to thank Ms. Marianthi Kotadaki and many good colleagues for being our tutors.

After getting acquainted with all the theory and then the many tools for digital storytelling, we each had to create a story. I was so happy to see many amazing stories, but mine was this (and it’s the first time I am posting this outside of the seminar environment. It has only been shown in class):

Το Ελάφι και το Κορίτσι του

Then, I translated the scenario of my story into English and left all the verbs out, asking my students to complete the Simple Past tense. We then carried on to thinking about “What happened next?”, a popular question in Φιλαναγνωσία< and one of my favourite questions to trigger children’s imagination. These were the results:

In the story by E1 class, the girl finds her voice…

And in the story by E2, the deer is transformed into a handsome prince!

I am so happy because my students not only created beautiful stories, but because we also got to discuss concepts like diversity and identity. Feels like a good day’s work!