Bringing digital stories into assessment

Bringing Classroom-Based Assessment into the EFL classroom

This  paper  describes  how  English  as  a  Foreign  Language  (EFL)  teachers  can  bring  reliable, valid, user-friendly assessment into their classrooms, and thus improve the quality of learning that  occurs  there.  Based  on  the  experience  of  the  author  as  a  an  EFL  teacher  and  teacher-trainer, it is suggested that the promotion and development of autonomy, intrinsic motivation...

The ABAIR Initiative: Bringing Spoken Irish into the Digital Space

The processes of language demise take hold when a language ceases to belong to the mainstream of life’s activities. Digital communication technology increasingly pervades all aspects of modern life. Languages not digitally ‘available’ are ever more marginalised, whereas a digital presence often yields unexpected opportunities to integrate the language into the mainstream. The ABAIR initiative e...

Continuous Tangible Interfaces: Bringing Clay and Sand into Digital Design

The BubbleFish: Bringing Digital Document Management into the Physical World

This paper introduces the BubbleFish project, in terms of the main idea, related work, and a set of possible prototypical implementations. The BubbleFish is a digital document manager that uses Augmented Reality to let its users maintain digital documents in the physical environment, as an alternative to the currently dominating file/folder approach in desktop based computer systems. The user m...

Interactive Digital Narratives: Bringing Meaningful Interaction Into Public Spaces

“What we have created [...] is an impersonal theatre of human interactions, and a paradox of isolation in the midst of visual transparency” Sennett, R. (1986) The fall of public man This dissertation analyses the potential of digital interactive narratives in bringing back meaningful interaction to public spaces. In the context of this research, a definition of meaningful interaction is given a...