Author contends that by having students create their own media, it can motivate them to learn through researching and writing. (HB)

Stimulating creative writing at the elementary level was the goal of KIDS radio station, which involved student planning and participation in live broadcasts over the school intercom. (STS)

The author describes how making videotapes helps students in learning a foreign language. (AK)

A classroom international bazaar gets children converting currencies and reinforcing math. (Editor)

Original version of this article was designed as part of a series of school radio broadcasts titled Science Activities -- Outdoors and Indoors." (Editor/MB)

A brief description of some of the problems faced in a college course which teaches the production of television for education. (AK)

This article describes qualitative case studies of two teachers who integrated student-created digital documentaries into their social studies classrooms. Thornton's (2001a) concept of the teacher as curricular gatekeeper and Mishra and Koehler's (2006) Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge framed the study. The teachers worked within the…

Films are often used in schools to illustrate geography, but doing so may favor mainly passive learning. An experiment with twenty-eight pupils aged thirteen years (a whole class) had the aim of using cinema to promote active geographical learning. First, it was ascertained what the dominant geographical stereotypes were among the pupils and the…

Students developing their labs lead them to enhance the laboratory experience. This benefits the students as they learn more about the experiments and they get benefit by peers led labs through a more fluid discussion.