Transcript Document 9651435

Sharing Stories with StoryKit:
A mobile storytelling case study
Elizabeth Bonsignore
Alex Quinn, Allison Druin, & Ben Bederson
University of Maryland iSchool & HCIL
Sample Story
Readers to Writers
Intergenerational team; Participatory Design
Editing a Book
Tools Palette
Sharing a Book
Data Source
Timeframe
Description
Analytic Approach
Field Observations, Initial Field Use,
notes, short videos August 2009
Field notes (n=16)
Grounded Theory
Shared Stories
Repository
-Sep 2009 – Jan
2010
-Shared Stories
(n=270; total)
-Jan – Dec 2010
-Shared Stories
(n=274; sample)
(Corbin & Strauss, 2008)
Genre Analysis
(Orlikowski & Yates,
1994)
(Fleiss’ κ=0.72-0.93,
p<0.05, across 6
categories, 2-raters)
Interviews
- Initial Field Use,
August 7, 2009
- Extended Use,
June-Dec 2010
Semi-structured
interviews (n=9)
Grounded Theory
Interaction Logs
Sep 2009 –
Dec 2010
Google Analytics,
Descriptive,
Shared Server Logs exploratory analysis
(Tukey, 1977)
(n>6300 stories)
Today:
>100K users; >700K times; >150K stories
Shared Stories, by Platform
Over time
Overall
Mobile storytelling platform trends
Shared Stories, by Author type
Children are mobile storytellers
Shared Stories, by media used
“Especially for kids
who have issues
with the act of writing…
They’re very creative
but it’s just the chore
of writing –
StoryKit’s audio
is great.”
Narrative is a multimedia enterprise
Shared Stories, by specific genre
“Storytelling
in science is key
to understanding!
“It’s helped me
put together ideas
for a novel.”
Stories represent a diversity of genres
• Mostly digital traces
- Interviews corroborated
some observations;
need more detail on actual
story-crafting and literacy
practice
• Initial exploratory data
analysis
- More comparisons across
devices + context possible
• Literacy Practices
- Educator interviews or focus groups
to offset limitations in current analysis
- Increasing number of educators making design
recommendations for learning
- Community-building
• Design
- Collaborative Authoring across devices
- Online community/story-sharing
• Narrative is a multimedia enterprise
• Narrative is multi-disciplinary
• Children using iPod touches dominate as
mobile storytellers
If you’ve seen one StoryKit story….
Questions?
http://en.childrenslibrary.org/
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/storykit/id329374595?mt=8
Thank you!
Elizabeth Bonsignore
[email protected]