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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
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