The authors review all aspects of a Language Arts methods course for pre-service teachers, one which employs a multi-literacies pedagogy (The New London Group, 1996) and is taught at a laptop-based university. The course begins with a deliberate immersion into the complexities of multiple literacies, including digital literacy and critical literacy. The authors outline the course assignments, r...

Stories and story-telling are a cultural achievement of significant relevance, even in modern times. Since ancient times stories have served to entertain and teach mankind to “transmit” knowledge from generation to generation. Story-telling ranges from simple aural narrations to traditional inter-generational discourse and, in modern times, workflow-oriented organizational learning. Web-based s...

Our research goal is to facilitate the sharing of stories with digital maps. The main technical novelty of this paper is a method for semi-automated creation of photo slideshows with geotagged photographs. Story authoring software like movie editors and slideshow editors enable us to create stories by arranging elements like movie clips, audio clips, photographs, etc. in the order of the storyl...

Drawing on research on narrative theory (Baker, 2006, 2014) in translation and interpretation studies, on the interdisciplinary relationship between translation studies and the visual and performing arts, and on the principal diversities between media discourse representations and aesthetic constructions on the topic of the migration crisis, this study addresses the issue of transferring cultur...

Digital storytelling is a new education method in which educational achievements are narrated with photographs and stories the computer environment. In this study, pre-service elementary teachers’ skills of teaching numbers through digital were examined. 98 teachers participated research was conducted type scanning. The evaluated rubric developed study. analysis results revealed that at moderat...

Museums and Art Galleries are challenged to inspire, engage and involve visitors by presenting their collections within physical exhibitions. Curators and exhibition professionals are increasingly telling stories using digital interactivity. This work introduces Quando, a visual programming based toolset that domain experts can use to create interactive exhibits. A small case study demonstrates...

Sad stories about EDRMS implementation failure are often told among records managers. An EDRMS project, like any other IS implementation, will need key ingredients to be successful. This paper reveals these components of a successful EDRMS implementation from the findings of a Web-based survey on the perspectives of records managers in the three levels of the Australian public sector. It also u...

New Media enthusiasts have long extolled the digital medium as opening up new forms of storytelling. Interactive stories are said to enable the user to enact the narrative interpretations and decisions previously internal in other media. ‘Interactivity’ is meant to allow user to control and manipulate the story in many ways. This paper investigates this presumption by exploring current theories...