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Assignment: Kurt Vonnegut’s Shape of Stories (Blog post)

Marco Ronchetti marco.ronchetti@unitn.it — Tue, 8 Nov 2016 7:49:00 +0100

Analyze movie or a book based on Kurt Vonnegut’s Shape of Stories; this should include an graphic representing your own drawing of the arc. Did this make sense to you as a way to analyze stories? Include as well a summary of the digital storytelling example you chose.

Assignment: Read

Marco Ronchetti marco.ronchetti@unitn.it — Tue, 8 Nov 2016 8:00:00 +0100

Read the following

http://lifehacker.com/5965703/the-science-of-storytelling-why-telling-a-story-is-the-most-powerful-way-to-activate-our-brains

Optional:

Write a short post with your comments and opinions on the topic discussed in the chapter

About Storytelling: EDX talks (Explore, listen and write a post)

Marco Ronchetti marco.ronchetti@unitn.it — Tue, 8 Nov 2016 8:24:00 +0100

Google for some EDX talk about storytelling (but you may also explore something other than EDX if you want). Explore some of them (at least three: choose the ones which look most interesting to you, start listening, if you find that really interesting continue, if not jump to the next one).

Write a post describing whcih ones you explored, and for the one you liked the best write a reccommendation explaining what you liked and why.

If you can't find anything, you may start from this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxDwieKpawg

Assignment: Read

Marco Ronchetti marco.ronchetti@unitn.it — Tue, 8 Nov 2016 8:33:00 +0100

Read the following chapter.

http://ds106.us/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/0313387494storytelling-dragged.pdf