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NAME

       storymaps — free story planning and writing application for children

SYNOPSIS

       storymaps

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the storymaps command.

       This  manual  page  was  written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a
       manual page.

       storymaps is a free story planning and writing application for children  that  works  in  many  different
       operating  systems.  It  was  written  by  Sean  Hammond  as  part of his PhD. The author and worked with
       teachers, children, creative writing experts and an illustrator to design and evaluate it.

       StoryMaps breaks down the elements of traditional fairy tales into building blocks which children can use
       to  invent  new stories. With StoryMaps children can create stories that contain their own original ideas
       while being structurally complete and well-formed. The goal of the program is that  StoryMaps  will  give
       children  a  powerful  mental  model  for  understanding stories and their construction. School trials of
       StoryMaps found that through using the  application  children  were  able  to  grasp  abstract  narrative
       concepts and apply them to their own writing, and that the experience improved the narrative structure of
       children's stories.

USAGE

       When the program starts, the Planning View is shown.   In  this  view,  the  user  os  presented  with  a
       collection  of  story  cards  to choose from in the green area at the top. You can inspect each card more
       closely by moving the mouse cursor over a card to see it in more  detail.  You  drag-and-drop  the  story
       cards  that  you  want  to  use and arrange them into a story map in the grey area below. You can enter a
       title for your story in the toolbar at the bottom of the window.

       The story cards are based on plot functions from Vladimir Propp's  study  of  traditional  Russian  fairy
       tales, Morphology of the Folktale. They were illustrated by designer and illustrator Raymond Yuen.

       Move  the mouse pointer over a story card to see it in more detail, and open the story editor to see even
       more detail about the story cards.

       Clicking on the Write your Story! button brings up the story editor. With your story map in  view  above,
       you  use the text editor below to enter the text for your story. You have to fill in a part of your story
       for each story card in your story map. If you change your mind about one of the cards in your story  map,
       you can go back to the planning view at any time by clicking the Go back to planning    button.

       You  can  save  your  story map to file and open a saved story map to continue working on it later.  When
       you've finished writing you can preview your story and export it to HTML, or print it.

       StoryMaps automatically saves your story as you work on it. You'll find automatically  saved  stories  in
       the  StoryMaps  folder in your home directory (on Linux) or in your My Documents folder (on Windows). You
       can open automatically saved stories using the Open a  Saved  Story  button  in  the  File  menu  in  the
       StoryMaps window.

SEE ALSO

       This    program    is    documented    fully    in    the    Storymaps    web    page   ,   avilable   at
       http://seanh.sdfeu.org/storymaps/.

       You can read more about StoryMaps, the ideas behind it and  how  it  was  developed  and  evaluated  with
       teachers and children in these publications:

          •  Children's  Story  Authoring  with  Propp's Morphology, Sean Hammond, PhD thesis, The University of
             Edinburgh 2010

          •  Children's Story Authoring with Propp's Morphology: An Exploratory  Study,  Sean  Hammond,  Tim  J.
             Smith  and  Helen  Pain,  5th  International  Conference  on  Narrative  and  Interactive  Learning
             Environments, Edinburgh, 6th-8th August 2008

          •  Player Agency in Interactive Narrative: Audience, Actor & Author, Sean Hammond, Helen Pain and  Tim
             J.  Smith, Artificial and Ambient Intelligence, AISB Annual Convention, 2-4 April 2007, Culture Lab
             Newcastle University

AUTHOR

       Storymaps is Copyright: (c) 2007-2012 Sean Hammond seanhammond@seanh.cc.

       The images for the story cards have been done by Ray Yuen hello@rayuen.com. You can find more information
       about him in his website at http://rayuen.com

       This  manual  page was written by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino jfs@debian.org for the Debian system (but may
       be used by others).

       For full licensing and copyright details please see /usr/share/doc/storymaps/copyright.

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