An integrated language arts and technology program engaged students in reading and writing activities that funded an experience in moviemaking. With video cameras in hand, students, often working collaboratively, developed expanded views of the writing and revision processes as they created movies that mattered to them and found an audience beyond…

Teaching communication used to be simple: teach writing and speaking. But today?s students must be able to communicate with pictures, both moving and still; audio; and text. This article shows how to design a series of lessons in which students create digital class videos during the course of content-specific units, discussing pre-production,…

Explores the effectiveness of using television and video to motivate student writing. Describes how, following a series of motivational and brainstorming sessions using television, video, and popular literature, 23 fifth-grade students wrote and videotaped dramatizations of short "teaser" scripts in cooperative groups. Notes that these…