The 4-day activity involves using games and storytelling to help students get to know each other and break down barriers. Students will learn how to create digital stories through workshops on storyboarding, scriptwriting, and using audio and video tools. They will then visit cultural sites in Coimbra and gather material for digital stories about local legends. Other activities include using inclusive games to promote awareness of sign language and diversity, and using art to tell stories and celebrate similarities and differences. The overall goals are to encourage participation, sharing of best practices, awareness of diversity, and developing social and learning skills through collaborative methodologies.

1. Game Literacy and learning
09-15 October/2022
Activity Type: Short-term exchanges of groups of pupils
Activity Title: Stories Power
Leading Organisation : Agrupamento de Escolas Coimbra Centro (E10079138, Portugal)
Day Activities- Detailed information Methodologies and expected results
1 Games and stories – getting to know each other;
Creating stories through games- in order to create positive
group atmosphere, break down social and cultural barriers
and help people to get to know each other
Methodology: group work, team work, project-based learning, problem solving methods.
Expected results: Exchanging experience and enhance communication competence in English;
promoting basic skills: language (written and oral interactions); competences of intercultural /
multicultural teamwork;
Day
1/2
Day 2 -Workshop1/2
1. Developing your Digital Story
- How to Develop a Digital Story
- Procedure and Tools Storyboarding
- How to create a storyboard?
2. Practical activities
Methodology:
- Pre-writing: brainstorming, collecting images, researching, outlining, and storyboarding.
Storyboards are visual representations that aid in the the creation process of digital
storytelling
- Drafting: creating a script and developing form
- Revising: modifying images and organization
- Editing: timing, images, and narration
- Publishing: the final product
- Student participants will also learn how to work with sound programs (Audacity), recording,
editing and uploading podcasts. (…)
- Students will develop activities with teachers in group / team work.
Expected results: Exchanging of experience and good practice, creative tools and the use of Free
Digital Storytelling Tools for uploading podcasts and videos.

2. Day 2 Cultural Heritage Day; ‘Coimbra in stories’ - mixed groups
visit cultural heritage sites around Coimbra and gather
material for digital storytelling, which will be made via
eTwinning platform as a post-meeting activity.
Legend No. 1 - The Princess Cindazunda and the Coat of
Arms of Coimbra
Legend No. 2 - The Miracle of the Roses
Legend nº 3 - The Tragic Love of Pedro and Inês
https://www.livingtours.com/en/blog/3-coimbra-
legends.html
Legend nº 4 – Legend of Mondego River
https://medium.com/inesdasneves/mondego-river-born-
from-too-many-tears-105df69d470
https://www.livingtours.com/en/blog/3-coimbra-
legends.html
Methodology: Group work, team work, role play, project-based learning, discussion, problem-solving
methods.
Expected results: Enhanced critical thinking skills, skills to create podcast, videos, and diaries.
Day 3 Inclusive games and stories - Equity , diversity, inclusion
and game-based learning.
A gestural interpreter to promote awareness to sign
language.
Methodology: Group work, team work, project-based learning, discussion, problem-solving methods.
Expected results: This activity aims to promoting awareness to Inclusion, diversity and sign language
and different strategies to work with deaf students.
Day 4 Activity
- Paint your story.
Students will try to tell a story or a special moment of their
lives by painting or drawing something that symbolizes it;
- Building a panel -sentences and phrases about the
project, hands of everyone with group photo;
Methodology: the students will develop arts and craft activities with specialized teachers, in team
work.
Creating individually short sentences/ words reflecting the opinions and expectations of the students’
and teachers about the project and the mobility;
Expected results: These activities aim to promoting literacy development through storytelling and art
, sharing similarities and celebrating differences;

3. Overall Expected results:
• Creating a positive group atmosphere, break down social and cultural barriers and help people to get to know each other;
• Use of collaborative learning methodologies as a strategy to encourage the students’ participation in the learning process; integration of special needs as part of
the learning groups.
• Sharing of best practices especially in dealing with difficult students and students with special needs and in specific contexts;
• Inclusive types of activities implemented.
• Raising awareness to diversity and gender equality.
• Get a positive approach towards activities and events, showing exploratory impulses and curiosity about learning.
• Developing social skills and seeking others to share responses, experiences and friendship.
• Developing safe, secure and trusting relationships through responding to others and demonstrating flexibility and adaptability to change.
Possible Web tools and digital resources:
https://www.wevideo.com/
https://www.audacityteam.org/
https://vocaroo.com/
Storytelling and games:
https://confidencemeetsparenting.com/storytelling-games/
https://playtivities.com/storytelling-game-for-kids/
Digital storytelling using PPT
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2MbBSc6930
How to build a storyboard?
https://www.canva.com/
https://www.canva.com/learn/how-to-build-a-storyboard/
https://boords.com/
https://boords.com/how-to-storyboard