Telling Stories with Story Builder

Here is a video to take you on a tour.

Story Builder lets you capture moments as you work with CODAP. You can put these moments together to tell a story to others about an investigation or even to yourself as a reminder of what you were thinking and doing.

Quick Start

• Give the first moment a title by clicking inside it and editing the text to say "The start of my story" or whatever you like. When you're done editing press return.
• Notice how the text box below Story Builder also got this title. Edit the text inside it, the narrative to say something of your own about what you are going to do.
• If you don't already have some data, now would be a good time to drag some in as a 'csv.'
• After you've added data, notice that the moment gets a yellow background. This is to let you know you've made a change to the document that has not yet been saved as part of the moment.
• Click on the plus icon below the moment. A new moment appears. The changes you made are captured here.
• Click on moment 1. Notice that your changes disappear. Click on moment 2 and your changes reappear.

Here you can see all the parts of Story Builder.

Knowing just this much, you can get pretty far using the Story Builder to make a story you can share with others either as a presentation or as a linked CODAP document. Watch the video tour for more details.

Acknowledgements

Story Builder was created by Tim Erickson, Bill Finzer and Michelle Wilkerson with help from Michael Tirenin, Jonathan Sandoe and members of the Story Builder team.

The development of Story Builder was supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS-1900606. This project is a collaboration between UC Berkeley, North Carolina State University, and The Concord Consortium. Any findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation, UC Berkeley, NCSU or The Concord Consortium.