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An Animated Story Created by a Group of Young Children
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Undheim, Marianne; Hoel, Trude – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2023
This paper contributes to the contemporary focus on literacy and digital stories in early childhood education and care (ECEC) institutions. When a group of young children create an animated story together, they might collaborate, both with their peers and with their teacher. By drawing on social semiotic multimodal perspectives as the theoretical…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Kindergarten, Collaborative Writing
Children's Literature in the Digital World: How Does Multimodality Support Affective, Aesthetic and Critical Response to Narrative?
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Alyson Simpson; Maureen Walsh – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to interrogate the place of literature in the digital world and the way a narrative is represented in digital spaces. In the changing landscape of digital, mobile and virtual texts, the authors aimed to examine how multimodal and animated elements in digital narratives engage young readers and encourage affective and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Childrens Literature, Electronic Books
Children's Writing Goes 3D: A Case Study of One Primary School's Journey into Multimodal Authoring
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Thomas, Angela – Learning, Media and Technology, 2012
This paper draws from research conducted as part of an Australian Research Council funded Linkage Project "Teaching effective 3D authoring in the middle years: multimedia grammatical design and multimedia authoring pedagogy", which is a collaboration between the University of New England, the University of Tasmania and the Australian…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Semiotics, Linguistic Theory, Case Studies
Assessment of Animated Self-Directed Learning Activities Modules for Children's Number Sense Development
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Yang, Der-Ching; Li, Mao-Neng – Educational Technology & Society, 2013
The purpose of this study was to examine the relative effectiveness of two different learning modes; namely, a computer animation self-directed learning approach and a paper version of the self-directed learning approach, to 5th-graders' number sense development. Two 5th-grade classes, 30 students each, were selected from a public elementary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics, Instructional Effectiveness
Slowmation: Preservice Elementary Teachers Representing Science Knowledge through Creating Multimodal Digital Animations
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Hoban, Garry; Loughran, John; Nielsen, Wendy – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2011
Research has identified the value of learners using technology to construct their own representations of science concepts. In this study, we investigate how learners, such as preservice elementary teachers, design and make a narrated animation to represent their science knowledge. The type of animation exemplified is called a "Slowmation"…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science
Using the Multimodal Affordances of the Interactive Whiteboard to Support Students' Understanding of Texts
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Maher, Damian – Learning, Media and Technology, 2011
The purpose of the study reported on here was to explore ways in which the interactive whiteboard (IWB) can support students' understanding of texts. A Year 3 and a Year 4 primary school class in New South Wales, Australia, is the focus of the research. A qualitative case study was carried out using multimodal analysis focusing on the use of an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Needs, Teaching Methods, Suburban Schools