 Storytelling What is storytelling? Do you want to capture your audience's attention? Why don't you tell them stories? Any kind of stories? Sad, dramatic, funny, educational stories. What kind of stories? Each story which enhances their imagination, creativity, inspiration. Why should you create stories for your audience? Because it's a vivid form of teaching and learning. Stories have a general context and also give possibilities for very individual interpretation and they stimulate emotions, reflection. And we use metaphors, memories, narration, analogies. In each story, we introduce a hero, a main plot and a dramatic question. Provoking the audience to innovative thinking and engagement. Stories allow presenting a difficult and boring content in an easy form. A good story is also showing a new point of view in different life situations. And how is it with you? Would you like to listen to stories? We invite you to explore the method of storytelling and digital storytelling. What is digital storytelling? How to express ourselves by stories. Does modern technology give a good support? The digital storytelling course will help you to produce the stories more interactively. How does it work? It's a form of storytelling using a variety of multimedia tools, including tools as photography, slides, soundtrack, your voice, subtitles, a short video. Digital storytelling is a result of combining different media elements into a coherent story. Presentations are short but attractive. They stimulate the senses and imagination and are suitable for different learning styles. Why is it good to use the method? Storytelling is not something new. People have been telling stories for thousands of years to exchange knowledge, to motivate and evoke imagination. Examples are the biblical parables, myths, fairy tales, legends. What is attractive in using storytelling and digital storytelling? The method increases interest, attention and motivation of the digital generation of students in a classroom. It reveals hidden talents of students who start to explore their own stories and present them to others. It develops communication skills, posing questions, expressing opinions, preparing reports and writing for a specific audience. The digital storytelling method develops computer skills and supports using technologies combining different media. Students publish their projects on the internet and the others can read them and add comments. Research results. You already know how effective and attractive storytelling is as a method. Unfortunately, the research conducted this year in seven European countries revealed that one-third of teachers, trainers and educators didn't know what storytelling was. Knowledge of digital storytelling was even worse. Two-third admitted they had never even heard of digital storytelling. As you can see for now, storytelling isn't popular in Europe, but the majority of the study sample expressed their high interest in this method. More than 90% wants to learn how to use digital storytelling. This means that there is a great demand for training in this area. T Story Project. And here comes our project. Storytelling applied to training or its shorter name, T Story. The project is co-financed by the European Union in the framework of the Lifelong Learning Program. T Story's goal is to promote a wider use of storytelling and digital storytelling in education and training in Europe. To complete this mission, an international consortium composed of seven component institutions was created, consisting of Italy, Portugal, Romania, Greece, Poland, the Netherlands and Spain. What makes our project different and innovative? T Story is the answer for the real needs of present-day education. Recent economic, technological and socio-demographic developments set new challenges and opportunities for education. The education system in Europe needs to be redesigned. Schools, universities and training centers must integrate ICT and a learner-centered attitude in teaching process. The T Story project can help to achieve this goal. Another innovative point is the universality of the course. The project's products will be useful for teachers, trainers and educators from all types of education and training entities on all levels, for all subjects of education and all groups of learners. The Digital Course. The Digital Storytelling Course will be the main product of our project. The course will teach you how to give lessons or training to your students through digital storytelling. The Digital Course will teach not only the methods themselves, but also ICT skills like making a short movie, producing a simple animation, creating your own digital stories. You will get concrete tips as we will also include practical examples of how to use storytelling in different areas of training or education. The course will lead you to create your own story step by step. We want you not only to learn the methods but also to have fun while learning. That's why you'll learn storytelling through storytelling as the digital course will be developed by the storytelling method. And the best part of that you will pay nothing for all this training because the course and supporting materials will be available for free. You just need to register on our website www.tstory.eu The final version of the course will be ready by September this year, but don't wait till September. Register now to have access to other materials about storytelling and digital storytelling and to be updated with all the news about the project. You can follow us on social media. We are on facebook, twitter and linkedin. You will find all links on our website www.tstory.eu