Effects of Creating Digital Storytelling by Three Kinds of Themes

Abstract

This paper is a report on the findings in making a storytelling with evalua tion and modification activities conducted on a undergraduate level. The university’s storytelling class enables students to both deepen the students’ self-understanding and heighten their skills in using computers and problem solving. First students write a narration of a story relating to them and then convert the story to a slide presentation. After appreciating the story slide show together and evaluating them by peer, then the students modify them. The students in this study felt that these activities deepened their self -understanding, as shown by significantly high average rating scale values. The factor analysis was conduc ted on these values and found three factors: “skill in solving one's own problems cooperatively and creating,” “skill in setting up problems and in expressing opinions,” and “interest in computers and technical skills in using computers.” The average rating values for the factors were raised significantly at the posteriori of creating the first work.