2. A critical review of the Storymaker website.
INTRODUCTION
INSTRUCTION FOR USE
USE IN THE CLASSROOM
PERSONALISED CREATIVITY
3. http://www.carnegielibrary.org/k
ids/storymaker/
is a fun interactive site for primary to middle school age
students.
It has the potential to excite a young audience and get them
involved in story writing.
4. Storymaker would appeal to the emerging technological
generation and strike favor with the Rudd Government and Education
Queensland who areencouraging an increased technological component
to the curriculum ineducation centre's of learning.
5. The site allows for personal creativity. Participants are
able to choose characters, settings, items and scenery items from a
reasonable range of choices. The characters can also participate in
a variety o feelings, actions and interactions with other
characters or objects. When completed books can be printed or
published. To publish one must be registered and logged into the
site.
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12. You can choose to play an instructional video clip or begin
writing your book. Click on your choice.
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28. If you choose the share option your book will then be
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30. Bamaga Children creating Sea artworks
Children have their own creative way of telling stories visually.
Each drawing has its own story. TabraniPrimadi, Professor from ITB
Indonesia, (as cited in, Ahmad and Soo-Min) states They do not only
draw what they see, but a result of collaboration between all of
their senses, thoughts and imagination. He compares childrens
drawings to pre-historic, and avante-garde artists work that follow
right brain strategies and exist within a Space-Time-Plane
(STP).
31. Each picture contains several scenes that move in time and
space. For example one would not only see a drawing of a house but
a vision of what is inside the house and events taking place.
Objects of importance are drawn larger. Near objects drawn low on
the picture plane and distant objects are placed higher or to the
back of the picture plane. This is compared with the
Naturalistic-Perspective Moment (NPM) where the system works like a
camera, recording things and people as they are, following the left
brain system of linear perspective.
32. Although the story maker does have a facility for including
feelings, actions and interactions the results are not as
imaginative as an original drawing.
This drawing by a five year old boy, (the one with glasses) clearly
demonstrates the bullying he suffers from his older sister.
(Drawing reproduced in Edwards, 1979).
The drawing displays raw emotion and passion.