The Story Telling Project Sepideh Shahi Inclusive Design

The Story. Telling Project Sepideh Shahi Inclusive Design Research Centre February 6 th, 2019

The Storytelling Project This project is part of a larger project called Social Justice Repair Kit that supports youth with learning differences to re-engage them in education. The Storytelling project tries to create an inclusive and accessible space where people can publish their stories on the web.

The Story. Telling Tool It provides different ways to write, record, publish, and share stories on the web to encourage the sharing of learning differences.

Why Storytelling?

What we expect to achieve today Finding a personal story about learning that "you want to tell the world"

What will happen to your story ● It will be licensed under Creative Commons. Others can remix, transform, and build upon the material as long as the original work is attributed back to you. ● It will be part of a collection of stories to inform the community of learning practices, technologies, barriers and successes

Questions? Is there any questions/concerns before we start?

Workshop Overview 1. All About Me Bag - Share & Tell 2. My Life as a River activity 3. Build your story 4. Publish your story on the web

All About Me Bag- 15 min ● Pair up with someone sitting in front of you ● Share the stories of each item in your bag with your partner ● Join another group ● Each person shares with the group something they have learned about their partner - 5 Minutes

My Life as a River - 20 min ● Try to imagine your life as a river ● Your river can begin from any point in your own life ● Write down your key life experiences along the river.

This is My Life as a River

Find your story along the river - 20 min ● Highlight any event/situation on your river where you had to learn a lot of new things and experienced a lot of challenges ● Add as much detail as you are comfortable with to that event/situation: ○ How you felt ○ People, places, things, images, smells and sounds involved ○ How it impacted your life

This is the story I want to share

Build your story - 45 min

Publish your story - 30 min No text

Feedback ● Is there anything that you learned about yourself or others today that you'd like to share? ● What do you think we could change about this workshop? ● What do you think we could change about The Story. Telling Project?