Visual Storytelling by Novelette

"When I'm Writing a Story, I Am Really Good" Exploring the Use of Digital Storytelling Technology at Home

“…In combining multimodal (e.g., audio, video) and multimedia forms of communication (e.g., text, image, voice) (Agnese et al, 2020) to produce stories, digital storytelling triggers children's digital literacy skills comprising of media, visual, technology and traditional literacies (Churchill, 2016). These skills are developed in a non-linear process through "a spiral of empowerment" (Churchill, 2016;Hobbs, 2017) that allows for new competences to grow in an interdependent mode.…”

“…(Rubegni & Landoni, 2014) and "Castor" (Pittarello & Bertani, 2012) children developed story plot elements using pre-given story spines corresponding to different story genres followed by a phase where children could select existing multimodal resources, or create their own. Similarly, Novelette provided story templates and a customisable library of images (Agnese et al, 2020) (Agnese et al, 2021).…”