?
Message: 3.
Subject: What are the characteristics of a good story for an informance? (the
mar=
riage of fact and fancy)
Message: 4.
Subject: What is the role of emotion in a storytelling informance and what is
the=
listener doing?
Message: 5.
Subject: Can the art of storytelling survive embedded information?
Message: 6.
Subject: How can learning be evaluated in an informance?
Message: 7.
Subject: Can storytelling survive in a setting with explicit educational goals?
8=
. What support from technology is needed, (the nuts and bolts)?
Message: 8.
Subject: What support from technology is needed for a good informance?
This paper will provide answers to these questions and detail the technolog=
y used in this program titled "The Two Baby Herons". I have significantly =
adapted this story which is found in "From the Winds of Manguito", a book o=
f folktales from Cuba retold by Elvia Perez (2004). A similar story , Kanj=
i-Jo, the Nestlings, from Africa, collected and published in Look Back and =
See by folklorist, librarian and storyteller Margaret Read MacDonald (1991)=
was also a source of inspiration for my version. (see Appendix A). My hus=
band and I have performed this story once at Cosumnes River College, once a=
t the 2006 Clear Lake Heron Festival, and four times at the Yolo Basin Foun=
dation Nature Center, a non profit agency that assists in managing a large =
wetland wildlife refuge system and a comprehensive conservation education a=
nd interpretation program for elementary school students in the Sacramento =
Region.
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