Documenting at school: the research training "Scritture Bambine" between transmedia storytelling and mapping

The project, in cooperation between the Faculty of Educational Sciences, Psychology & Communication, University of Bari and Ufficio Scolastico Regionale della Puglia (USR, Regional School Office), involved seven Primary and Secondary schools located in Bari and its district as well as Institute Karibu, Panzi (Congo) in a collaborative research& training project aiming at experimenting autobiographical activities for intercultural training practices in primary and secondary school. Starting from an analysis of the different stages that made up the final project, this paper is meant to offer some considerations on the relations between narrative processes and transmedia education documentation. In particular, the core focus is on the driving role played by the development of technologies in fostering new narrative media, with particular emphasis on storytelling activities. At the end of this article a series of devices used to “provide documentary evidence of laboratory activities” carried out by the research project DidaSco within the research itinerary adopted by schools which have joined the project will be showed. These new devices combine writing skills (words, images) with the potential offered by transmedia. Each medium has its own potential and peculiarities which may be used in educational settings appropriately. Nowadays, a new “universe” of writing can be created; the common thread can be developed in different - though coherent - ways on different media, thus creating a new “archetype for communication”