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Goal

Use storytelling as a way to enhance and improve learning.

Guiding Themes


  • Learning as a process. Not a product, tool, or resource
  • Democratic learning - equal opportunity and participation
  • Ownership over the process, artifacts, and personal data (metrics)
  • Tool does not prescribe a learning structure or method. Learners determine how they want to interact.
  • Stories = reactions + reflection + responses + … ?
    • Reaction - spontaneous response to content
    • Reflection - intentional thought and process
    • Responses - interactions and collaboration w others
  • Jutta Buzzwords:
    • “Inclusive infrastructure”
    • “Inclusive metrics” and “Thick data”
      • Who do you exclude in the metrics?
      • How do you give control to users / learners to give metrics?
      • How do you give the people at the outlier a voice in the metrics?


How? (Evolving concept)

  • A multimodal storytelling tool that operates independent of the learning resource.

    • Eases implementation and adoption.

  • Storytelling done through multimodal annotations (text, chat, audio, videos, links, etc.)

    • Allow learners to create stories as a way to journal their thoughts, experiences, and learning.

  • Synchronous and asynchronous storytelling

    • enables rich interactions from head to tail.

  • Enable learners and educators to collaborate, mutually experience, and share.

    • Platform where there is little differences in role - everyone interacts and collaborates in the same way (i.e. teachers experience is essentially identical to a student’s)

    • Equalize the power dynamic - everyone participates in a equal way.

  • Ownership of what learners say, create, and how their data is used

    • Give rich tools for creation, editing, and sharing.

What? (Possible platforms)

  • Browser Plugin

  • Pressbooks webhook for Storytelling like Hypothesis

  • EPUB integration with a reader system like Readium

Other Features

  • Metadata

  • Preference matching and saving

  • Remixing, sharing, collaboration

  • Multi-modal

  • Multi-cognitive

  • Analytics

  • Groups and permissions

  • Privacy

Next Steps

Investigate existing rich annotation tools and interactions:

  • Instagram stories
  • Sound Cloud
  • Hypothesis

Sources of Inspiration

Scenarios

  • a student, has recorded some reactions and reflections on some content. Teacher and peers can respond to student’s reactions and reflections with their own reactions and reflections.
  • learning English as a 2nd language. As part of a class, student can record themselves reading some news. Peers and instructor can later watch a video of him reading and provide comments.
  • Sharing
  • Teaching (group context)
    • Closed group scenario (login, viewing activity, responding to people etc.)
  • Simultaneous experience (co-watching, co-reading, etc.)
  • Multimodal “annotations”
    • I.e. Soundcloud’s annotations
  • Privacy
  • Metrics / understanding effectiveness / gaining insights

  • Setting personal preferences and matching

  • Metadata generation

Early Sketches

The following are very early sketches to help give a sense of the design direction. The depicted interaction is very compartmentalized and structured.

It is desirable to have the design evolve into a more integrated and organic experience, with less segregation of modalities and cognitive "switching".


Above: Viewing a piece of content (web, e-textbook, etc.) with the Learning Stories Tool open.

Detailed Description:

  • The panel contains different ways for the learner to respond to the content:
    • Record audio, video
    • Write some notes
    • Annotate / respond with an emoji, animated gif, meme etc.
    • Link to another resource
    • Read and respond to comments
    • Access other tools (i.e. Glossary, learning customization, Udio tools, etc.)
  • The audio icon has an indicator to show there are 2 new recordings.
  • The panel also contains indicators of content created by others (seen under the “Other Stories” section).


Above: Viewing user audio recordings for the content

Detailed Description:

  • The panel shows a thread of audio recordings where the user has made an initial recording, and someone else has made an audio response.



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