A Novel Educational Digital Storytelling Tool Focusing on Students Misconceptions

Abstract

This paper describes the design and implementation of a new educational digital storytelling tool for the design and creation of multimedia digital stories to support students in reflecting on and overcoming their learning difficulties. In fact, this new digital story tool can assist students in creating digital stories using the ‘Educational W’ (Ed-W) story grammar (Kordaki, 2013). The digital storytelling tool enables the learner to design the storyline for every step of the Ed-W story grammar separately, and to combine the multimedia files he has uploaded to his digital library. Then, the system automatically assembles all the parts to create a single concrete educational digital story. An example of the use of our digital storytelling tool will be also demonstrated.