.TH "storymaps" "1" 
.SH "NAME" 
storymaps \(em free story planning and writing application for children 
.SH "SYNOPSIS" 
.PP 
\fBstorymaps\fR 
.SH "DESCRIPTION" 
.PP 
This manual page documents briefly the 
\fBstorymaps\fR command. 
.PP 
This manual page was written for the \fBDebian\fP distribution 
because the original program does not have a manual page. 
.PP 
\fBstorymaps\fR 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.  
 
.PP 
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. 
.SH "USAGE" 
.PP 
When the program starts, the \fIPlanning View\fP 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. 
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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. 
 
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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. 
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Clicking on the \fIWrite your Story!\fP 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 \fIGo back to planning\fP    button. 
.PP 
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. 
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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. 
.SH "SEE ALSO" 
.PP 
This program is documented fully in the \fIStorymaps web page 
\fP, avilable at http://seanh.sdfeu.org/storymaps/. 
.PP 
You can read more about StoryMaps, the ideas behind it and how it was 
developed and evaluated with teachers and children in these 
publications: 
.IP "   \(bu" 6 
Children's Story Authoring with Propp's Morphology, Sean Hammond, 
PhD thesis, The University of Edinburgh 2010 
.IP "   \(bu" 6 
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 
.IP "   \(bu" 6 
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 
.SH "AUTHOR" 
.PP 
Storymaps is Copyright: (c) 2007-2012 Sean Hammond  
seanhammond@seanh.cc.  
 
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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 
 
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This manual page was written by Javier Fernandez-Sanguino jfs@debian.org for 
the \fBDebian\fP system (but may be used by others). 
 
.PP 
For full licensing and copyright details 
please see \fB/usr/share/doc/storymaps/copyright\fP. 
 
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