G-Flash: An authoring tool for guided digital storytelling

This paper describes the conceptual design of G-Flash, an authoring tool for supporting guided digital storytelling among young children. The basic idea of G-Flash revolves around guidance concept with the aim of assisting young children quickly generate a story according to the intended learning objectives. Tutored condition, a mid-level form of guidance giving was selected as the guided learning approach to allow the student getting only the right amount of assistance without compromising on the learner´s creativity and motivation as well as to learn on their own within the assistance withholding condition. An important feature of G-Flash is the use of flashcards, a familiar and widely used tool to teach children, as the main media element to create the digital story was highlighted. A review of existing tools was provided and benefits of guidance concept, not present in existing digital storytelling tool, were discussed.