Elaboración de un libro multimedia bilingüe sobre mitos del pueblo Shuar.

Abstract

A bilingual multimedia book on the myths and legends of the Shuar people was created to support the knowledge of culture values for children aged 9 to 10 years oil at the Intercultural Bilingual Education Unit“Tsanta”. In the Tsurakú Community. In this research, the Analytical Method was used to analyze, synthesize and classify two myths related to the history of the . Shuar people; the myth of Etsa, a jungle man and protector of hunting, and the Nunkui myth, which is about the feminine world of the home and crops. According to bibliographic sources, Nunkui protects women, especially those that take care of the fields or crops, and teacher kwowledge and shares information. The Inductive Method faciliteted the analysis of the illustration styles, 2D animation techniques, editorial design, color range and the typography of e-books suitable for Young audiences, which were subsequently applied in the design and layout of the book, along with the creation of characters and scenarios. The following software was used: Adobe Illustrator Cs6for the vectorization of the icon and creation of interface buttons; Adobe Photoshop toretouch backgrounds, givinglight, shadows and highlights; Adobe Flash to anímate the characters and créate an interactive multimedia book in apk format for mobile devices. The evaluation of the interactive multimedia book was conducted using a sample of twenty children and two teachers from the Education Unit. The following results were obtained; 94.03% acceptance, increasing by 97.1% the knowledge of the cultural values of the myths of the Shuar people, 96.4% in the teaching-learning process of the book, the book thus being a visually attractive way for children to learn about the myths. The conclusión of the study was that the use of an interactive multimedia book, composed of audio, animations was successful in capturing the children´s attention. The reasons for this is that an interactive multimedia book allows children to use their visual auditory and tactile senses in an interesting and entertaining way. It is thus recommended that the educational unit “Tsanta”, implement the use of the multimedia book, as it allows children to develop their skills and reinforce their knowledge within the teaching-learning process.