Subject: | How much information can the story carry and still be entertaining? |
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This is a matter of conjecture at this point. I decided on eight bird chara= cters, photos, and no more than eight sounds because of memory research ind= icating that a series of seven or eight numbers could be recalled by most s= tudents. (Cusimano, 1995). The story plays out to about twenty minutes, wh= ich is close to the limit of the 5/ 6 years old child=92s ability to attend= to a structured presentation. The amount of time spent in narrative versu= s the time spent listening to bird sounds is about 8:1 narrative to sound, = and the pictures continue to stay up on the screen under my voice, changing= as new bird characters are introduced. Audience response tells me the len= gth of time and the amount of material is acceptable. There is little squi= rming, yawning or distractive behavior. Faces remain engaged. (The goal of a story is to entertain and to instruct.) |
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