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Most of this storytelling will not be about digital tools at all – there should be a turn taking between digital and physical activities, where the thing we do with physical materials are more important. Digital tools do, however, provide various means for documenting activities as well as a way to trigger children's curiosity.
The video below shown some examples of location based stories, and how these can be told using technologies like Augmented Reality (AR). If you are not going to see the whole video: start a litttle after 5 minutes into the video. Fotspor (see below) use many of the same principles, but without AR.
As we saw last week we can do geocaching together with children (video), and we can use a variety of digital tools in kindergarten, like QR-codes (video) to hide and discover messages. All these tools are about making some additions to the children's experience of, and in places.
See also Digital Storymaps #1
Augmenting places
Augmenting places
Our stories are made for places. At least: our interest is how visual stories can influence on children's experience and the perceived affordances at given locations. And, more important, this is a starting point that can make us think about how to involve children in storytelling at specific locations.
Even though we are not going to work with AR, this will be very common in the years to come. Imagine how it can be possible to play around with applications like IKEA Place, as soon as you are able to include objects that children have made themselves:
Where does Location Based Storytelling come from?
Where does Location Based Storytelling come from?
Using Fotspor
Using Fotspor
An example of the web interface below. You can add written text, images, sounds files and video files to each post:
Fotspor is a free service, and the app can be downloaded for free as well, both for Android and iOS. The screenshots to the right shows the startup screen, and a version of our route and how this can be downloaded and stored on a mobile device for offline use.
Fotspor is a webservice and a mobile app, developed at Centre for New Media, at HVL. We are using a beta-version that let us include videos in the posts. The posts are authored and put in position on the digital map through the web interface.
When we have posted all the videos we can share the route, and download the whole route including all the media material. This enables us to to navigate and see all the material, without having to use data traffic. No costs, as long as you remember to download the route when you are connected to wifi.
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