Telecollaborative Storytelling

Abstract

Telecollaborative multimodal storytelling has evolved into an innovative pedagogic design that fuses information technologies, semiotic repertoires, and modalities with cooperative learning, personal accounts, and academic content. Informed by social constructionism and poststructuralism, this chapter presents a semester-long virtual exchange with language learners and pre-service teachers in two universities and the format of this initiative with a focus on pedagogical suggestions. Not only did this collaboration transcend the classroom, but it provided a supportive environment for multiliteracy, disciplinary knowledge, and cross-cultural competency development and identity negotiation within traditional and virtual learning spaces. Co-authored multimedia ensembles, reflective writing, and teamwork can enable learners to generate meaningful narratives, forge reciprocal partnerships, engender social consciousness, and express themselves creatively across linguistic, cultural, and technology capital.