* THE VALUE OF CULTURE AND CULTURAL EVENTS THROUGH DIGITAL STORYTELLING.

WHAT DO WE WANT TO IMPROVE? We decided to create a digital story because telling a story is a powerful way to communicate with others, it develops creativity and critical thinking, It gives us the opportunity to enhance the 4 linguistic skills, It develops skills and key competences for lifelong learning and it gives us the opportunity to work cooperatively favouring socialization. The advantages of digital storytelling are countless. The main instructional goal was to develop cultural values by creating an original story and sharing it to the world. The very important thing it was the process, not the final project. We are teaching and learning in the 21st century, so we need new methods, new skills, collaborative work... Let´s inspire, encourage learning by exploring, let´s use our imagination, let´s get messy... because learning English is fun!

WHAT ARE THE INTERESTS OF OUR STUDENTS? They love monsters, they love using ICT, drawing, comics, telling stories... So that is why we decided to create a digital storytelling project. The starting point is our students needs and interests.

MOTIVATION: In this Collaborative project,  we included the elements of a fairy tale; other worlds, other creatues; monsters heroes... I shared this idea with my etwinning partners and we started the digital storytelling challenge. The students will be involved in decision making, they will become illustrators, writers, readers and even the main characters of their own story.First we will use the internet to learn about our etwinning partners, to learn about the project, about ideas on how to overcome our fears to learn a language, other cultures... We will make projects and related activities. They will make comic, pictures, stories with paper and pencil and/or they will type the stories on the computer.