Slideshow on creating an interactive presentation.

1. Twitter:@kkapp
Tools of Engagement: "Tools of
Engagement: Storytelling
By Karl M. Kapp

2. Story Creation Steps
1. Identify Learning Objective
– Choose Only One
2. Choose Characters (Teacher or Learner)
3. Create Plot (What Happens)
4. Develop Questions (Advance Plot)
– Only use one-two questions.
5. Create Tension (Between Characters)
6. Develop Resolution

3. Let’s Get
Started

4. What story elements and
tools of engagement are
used?

5. Twitter:@kkapp
Example: Interactive Story
The Quest for
Learner
Engagement:

6. Karl M. Kapp
Presents:

7. The Case of the

8. t was a quiet Monday morning, very
quiet, really quiet… almost too…

9. Then, out of nowhere, she flew into my office,
like a boss who had a problem that needed
solved …
Hi Boss.

10. I have a problem that
needs to be solved.

11. We need more
engagement.
She wanted to increase learner engagement
and have more interactive stories to help
learners connect with content.

12. You came to the right
instructional designer that’s
what I do…

13. Yeah, I know…that’s
why I hired you. Ugh..
Now take the new person here
and go ask Clyde, he went to a
conference on the subject.

14. For some reason, she didn’t seem bothered
by the fact that she was breaking the
company’s no smoking policy…

15. Here’s where you come in. Help me figure
out the clues …and fast.

16. We’ve got to solve this mystery. Help me
figure out the clues …and fast.

17. Text KarlKapp to 37607
Or
PollEv.com/karlkapp
First, take out your text
machines.
K a r l K a p p

18. Choose your disguise…

19. Question Here

20. Stakes are high and time is short.

21. Learners are not Engaged? Why?
Learning Eagle
June 24, 2016See Section F for Coupons
Investigation Opened
By Harry James
Las Vegas, NV– It started out as
just another normal day. Larry
the Learner had just sat at his
desk to embark on a learning
journey. A journey that turned
horrific within only a few
moments.
The result is unnecessary
incident that could and should
have been avoided by having
the right instructional strategy
coupled with the right content.
The news of disengaged learners was spreading…

22. We need to find Ivan…the Informant...

23. I knew one of his old haunts…

24. He was about as friendly as a fly at a fly
strip convention.
Hello, Clueless…

25. Look I am going to ask you some
questions, the right answer gives you
a clue to interactive storytelling.
He was about as friendly as a fly at a fly
strip convention.

26. What do you and your detectives here have
to say about this?

27. What is the key element of a learning story?

28. Question Here

29. Here, let me show you what I
think is the key element.

30. He then grabbed his typewriter to show me
the key element of instructional storytelling.

31. Plot—Something has
to happen. There
must be some
action, event or
scenario that
moves the learner
from point A to
point B. Something
the learner cares
about.
Change:
 Character
changes.
 Good defeats
Evil.
 Character
faces conflict
& triumphs.

32. Ivan then grabbed his laptop to show me a
demonstration.

33. Story-based Research Ethics Course…
https://ori.hhs.gov/thelab

37. Let me give you another example
of how stories power
engagement.

41. Create Open Loops
Law &
Order

42. Thanks, Ivan.Get out of here….
This mystery of engaging stories was starting
to take shape…

43. Let’s brief the boss on what we know so far…

44. So what have we
learned?

45. So far, so good. Follow the next clue on the
matchbook I found in my desk drawer….

47. I arrived at the place on the matchbook, as
shady as a clump of oaks caught in an eclipse…

48. Enter Question TextHmm… What could this location and clue mean???
Tell me. Do engaging stories start with Action or
Information?

49. Question Here

50. Action draws in the learner and
encourages further engagement.

51. Too often instruction is about the content
and not about interacting or engaging with
the content. It needs to be about what you
want the learner to do.

52. Make the learner do something
Answer a question
Identify a procedure.
Make a decision.
Solve a mystery.
Confront a challenge.
Pick a team.

53. Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics
Scott Freemana,1, Sarah L. Eddya, Miles McDonougha, Michelle K. Smithb, Nnadozie Okoroafora, Hannah Jordta,
and Mary Pat Wenderotha. PNAS Early Edition (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

54. Time for a recap with the boss…she looked a
little frantic…she wanted to know one more
thing.

55. I want to know one more
thing.
What story elements can
engage learners?

56. What game elements did we
encounter today that can
engage learners?

57. Any Others?

58. Great stuff, you folks really seemed to have
cracked the case as to what makes engaging
learning.

59. I thought my work was done but then….I
found another pack of matches on my way
home…

60. But we’ll have to leave that mystery for
another presentation….

61. What game elements and
tools of engagement are used
in this presentation?

63. 1) Story/Genre
2) Audience Input
3) Questions
4) Mystery/Curiosity
5) Characters
6) Action

64. QUESTIONS?

65. The End

66. Credits:
Detective Artwork Courtesy of Vanessa Bailey
Typewriter is MS Clip Art

67. Let’s Examine the
Elements of the
Story

68. Parts of a Story…

69. Stories need
Characters…

70. Stories need Plot…
What is happening…

71. Stories need Tension…

72. Stories need Resolution…

73. Stories need Resolution…

74. Stories need Conclusion…

75. 1. Characters
Stories Need
2. Plot (something has to happen).
3. Tension
4. Resolution
5. Conclusion

76. Storytelling

77. Researchers have found that the
human brain has a natural affinity for
narrative construction.
Yep, People tend to remember facts
more accurately if they encounter
them in a story rather than in a list.
And they rate legal arguments as more
convincing when built into narrative
tales rather than on legal precedent.
Carey, B. (2007) this is Your Life (and How You Tell it). The New York Times. Melanie Green
http://www.unc.edu/~mcgreen/research.html. Chapter 2 “The Gamification of Learning and
Instruction.

78. Speer, N. K., Reynolds, J. R., Swallow, K. M., & Zacks, J. M. (2009). Reading Stories Activates Neural
Representations of Visual and Motor Experiences.Psychological Science, 20(8), 989–999.
doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02397.x
When a person reads about certain
activities in a story, the areas of the
brain associated with those activities
are activated.
The research found that different brain
regions track different aspects of a
story. If the character moved, the
corresponding region of the brain for
physical movement became active.

79. Story Type Goal of Story
Expressive Teach content or convey existing
information.
Strategic Promote certain ways of working or
thinking—cultural shifts.
Reflective Captures complexities embedded
within a situation or points out
absurdities of a current state of affairs.
Transformative Describe a possible new future or a
new way of operating.
Alterio, Maxine & McDrury, Janice. Learning Through Storytelling in Higher Education:
Using Reflection and Experience to Improve Learning. Routledge. 2003.

80. Become a Story Connoisseur—Observe how movie
makers, television directors, and novelists craft stories.
Ask to Hear Stories—When debriefing a person providing
information for a course, ask for stories illustrating key
points.
Ask Story Questions—Stories follow a structure, ask
structured questions around which stories are built.

81. Questions…

82. You Try It!

83. Divide into teams.
Decide what you want to teach.
Create story.
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84. Story Creation Steps
1. Identify Learning Objective
– Choose Only One
2. Choose Characters (Teacher or Learner)
3. Create Plot (What Happens)
4. Develop Questions (Advance Plot)
– Only use one-two questions.
5. Create Tension (Between Characters)
6. Develop Resolution