Both teacher- and learner-made computer visuals are quite extensively reported in Computer-Assisted Language Learning literature, for instance, filming interviews, soap operas or mini-documentaries, creating storyboard projects, authoring podcasts and vodcasts, designing digital stories. Such student-made digital assets are used to present to…

A description of a learning experience where second graders selected pictures to tell a story. (HB)

The creation and use of school-made audiovisual teaching aids that emphasize ecological principles are presented to help secondary students and teachers develop curriculum in environmental education. The specific resources include motion pictures, photographs, videotape, sound recordings, and multimedia presentations. The main emphasis of the…

This guide is designed to help teachers understand how the multimedia development process works, and how to incorporate student-produced multimedia projects into their classrooms. The book consists of five chapters. Chapter 1 defines multimedia and addresses the importance of integrating digital media into the classroom. Chapter 2 discusses…

We are often reminded that we remember little of what we hear and read but much of what we teach. The very act of teaching forces us to clarify our understanding and to process it so that it can be communicated in a structured, clear and accessible way. Here, Heather Scott describes how she got an initially reluctant Year 12 group at Challenge…

This paper describes the expertise that teachers need to acquire in order to facilitate pupils' self-expression with multimedia. The central idea behind the argument is that multimedia is a creative tool for children and that multimedia learning in the near future is expected to be "Learning by Producing." In such a context of creative…

This paper discusses the changing role of teachers and students working on the World Wide Web and outlines the following eight characteristics and associated descriptors of the engaged learning model: (1) vision of learning (responsible, strategic, energized, collaborative); (2) tasks (authentic, challenging, multidisciplinary); (3) assessment…