Erasmus+ eTwinning: Our Christmas and New Year’s customs through digital story telling!
The two classes of the 5th grade students of the 10th Primary School of Elefsina narrate their own stories about the Christmas and New Year’s Customs in the Greek villages. Through their narrations varied Greek holiday traditions are described.
Before starting writing the students of the classes with the help of their English teacher, Ms Constantina Voitsiou, brainstormed ideas through visual prompts seen here.
Then they created two types of stories:
The augmented reality stories:
For these type of stories, an augmented reality app called "Metaverse" was used by the students in order to offer a unique experience to their readers and capture their attention During the process, the students were divided into groups of four, they wrote down their stories, searched images on the web,recorded their voices and created a digital version of their story with an embedded metaverse QR code. While using the app and after scanning the QR code, the readers can watch a 3D an avatar of the kids’ choice popping up into the real surroundings and at the same time, they can listen to the kids’ recorded voices narrate the story.
The stories produced are the following (in order to read experience them with augmented reality features, you have to download the Metaverse app
The story of the Unicorn girls
The story of the Fortnite players
The story of the Minecraft players
The hand-drawn stories
For these types of stories, the students were divided into groups of four. They wrote down their stories and created their own hand-drawn stories by exploiting their artistic talent.
You can read their stories here:
Hand-drawn stories
The purpose of this small scale in-class story-telling project was twofold. Firstly, the students had the chance to practice their narrative skills and communication skills in English; also, they were able to narrate the Christmas and New Year’s customs to our Erasmus+ eTwining fiends of our partnership and give them a taste of the beauty found in the diverse festive Greek traditions.
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