The digital technology era has profoundly evolved and changed the ways that people consume and produce information. As language itself is recognized as a multimodal resource for communicative purposes, different forms of multimodality have been advocated to nurture students' multiliteracies in educational contexts. This study aims to investigate…

Smartphones are regular classroom accessories. Educators should work with children to understand the capacity of smartphones for learning and civic engagement, rather than being a classroom distraction. This research supports a collaborative project the authors engaged in with students in two states to discover what the perception of smartphone…

Some student activities using still and motion pictures in class work are described. In elementary grades, pupils brought in family photographs to illustrate concepts like "family" and "friendship" and then wrote stories centering around the pictures for their classmates to read. They made movies illustrating concepts like "light." When students…

Illustrated. (RD)

The Redbank Regional High School in New Jersey has a color television studio equipped with cameras and other production equipment. Students have made mock commercials and films about career exploration and fire prevention. As they make the films, students develop and practice their reading, writing, speaking, and organizational skills and learn to…

Discusses how students and teachers can produce more creative and technically proficient videotapes with an inexpensive editing system. Describes the basics of creating different shots, steps to follow in the editing process, and how to avoid mistakes. (AEF)

A student project for learners of English for academic purposes (EAP) at a Hong Kong university is described and discussed. The project involved independent production by students of a documentary on the uses of English in the community. Topic, method of delivery, and organizational aspects were negotiated within the group of 15 students. Project…

The Project's report on its second year gives a detailed description of the construction and trial of its innovative 8th-grade American History course. Local history and local and national contemporary problems were interwoven with the traditional content of American history. Teaching-learning methods and activities included film-viewing,…

The introduction to this report traces the history of the Northampton History Project from its inception in the summer of 1967 to its close in 1970. Beginning with half the students of one junior high school and one teacher, the course prepared by the project is now required of all Northampton 8th graders and is taught by four specially trained…

The creation of an 8th-grade American history course and the training of teachers for the course are the goals of this project. Primarily a course in national history, it uses local (Northampton, Mass.) events and people as a key to understanding the larger national picture. The course objectives were to enable students to analyze, interpret, and…