Storytelling

Examples of Storytelling in the following topics:

• The Importance of Stories

  • Storytelling is the conveying of events in words, sound and/or images, often by improvisation or embellishment.
  • Storytelling is a powerful tool, a means for sharing experiences and knowledge.
  • For example, communicating by using storytelling techniques can be a more compelling and effective route of delivering information than that of using only dry facts.
  • State why effective storytelling is a key component of public speaking

• Digital Storytelling

  • Digital storytelling refers to a short form of digital media production that allows everyday people to share aspects of their life stories.
  • Simply put, digital storytelling combines photographs, video, animation, sound, music, text, and often a narrative voice.
  • The various aspects of digital storytelling, such as pictures, music, and narration, reinforce ideas and appeal to different learning types.
  • This quality makes digital storytelling a valuable tool for educators.
  • Lynne Zalesak, Social Studies Teacher, Houston ISD, uses Digital Storytelling to engage her students in the classroom.

• Telling a Story

  • Storytelling is a powerful tool for leaders, entrepreneurs, and community managers to relay a vision and craft a strong sense of purpose.
  • Storytelling is an incredibly powerful skill set, both in regards to effective rhetoric and presentation and leadership.
  • Storytelling is a way to relate to prospective users and build a powerful community, which is an invaluable asset in the success of any and all business ventures.
  • This feeling of conflict has been central to storytelling for all of human history!
  • Learn the art of storytelling and recognize it's applicability to various facets of the business world

• Defining Communication

  • Perhaps the most time-honored form of communication is storytelling.
  • The art of storytelling draws on your understanding of yourself, your message, and how you communicate it to an audience that is simultaneously communicating back to you.
  • Perhaps the most time-honored form of communication is storytelling.
  • The art of storytelling draws on your understanding of yourself, your message, and how you communicate it to an audience that is simultaneously communicating back to you.

• Italian Painting: Giotto

  • Another strength of Giotto's work was his storytelling ability.
  • Describe Giotto's use of naturalism, storytelling, and perspective in his work

• Explanation, Prediction and Storytelling

• Classical Greek Poetry and History

  • Athenian tragic poets and storytellers appear to have provided heavy inspiration for Herodotus, as did Homer.
  • Herodotus appears to have drawn on an Ionian tradition of storytelling, collecting and interpreting oral histories he happened upon during his travels in much the same way that oral poetry formed the basis for much of Homer’s works.
  • For this reason, Herodotus drew criticism from his contemporaries, being touted as a mere storyteller and even a falsifier of information.

• How and When to Use Narrative

  • Storytelling points toward a single goal.

• African-American Culture

  • Because slaves were proscribed from reading or writing, American slaves adopted a strong oral tradition--passing down songs, prayers, laments, and stories through music and storytelling.
  • Music, folktales, and storytelling provided an opportunity for the enslaved to educate each other in the absence of literacy.

• Slave Culture

  • Because slaves were proscribed from reading or writing, American slaves adopted a strong oral tradition—passing down songs, prayers, laments, and stories through music and storytelling.
  • Music, folktales, and storytelling provided an opportunity for the enslaved to educate each other in the absence of literacy, and songs and enthusiastic public worship were often used as a way of channeling and coping with hardships and voicing grievances to others in the slave community.