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Digital Storytelling: How to Get the Best Results
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Sheneman, Laura – School Library Monthly, 2010
Digital storytelling embraces the art of traditional storytelling and reconfigures it using modern digital mediums. More specifically, "Digital storytelling is the practice of combining narrative with digital content, including images, sound, and video, to create a short movie, typically with a strong emotional component." There are a…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Librarian Attitudes, Computer Software Evaluation, Use Studies
Empowering Personalized Learning with an Interactive E-Book Learning System for Elementary School Students
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Huang, Yueh-Min; Liang, Tsung-Ho; Su, Yen-Ning; Chen, Nian-Shing – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2012
Today various types of tablet computers are used, including iPad and Android Tablets. These individual portable digital devices can be used as e-book readers to support mobile personalized learning. Though many studies have investigated e-books by targeting undergraduate students, yet less attention has been paid to children. Therefore, an…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Elementary School Students, Instructional Design, Learning Processes
Flickr's Potential as an Academic Image Resource: An Exploratory Study
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Angus, Emma; Stuart, David; Thelwall, Mike – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2010
Many web 2.0 sites are extremely popular and contain vast amounts of content, but how much of this content is useful in academia? This exploratory paper investigates the potential use of the popular web 2.0 image site Flickr as an academic image resource. The study identified images tagged with any one of 12 subject names derived from recognized…
Descriptors: Citation Indexes, Content Analysis, Internet, Scientific and Technical Information
MOSAICA: A Web-2.0 Based System for the Preservation and Presentation of Cultural Heritage
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Barak, Miri; Herscoviz, Orit; Kaberman, Zvia; Dori, Yehudit J. – Computers & Education, 2009
The question of how to present cultural heritage resources in a way that attracts potential users is becoming important in our ever-changing world. This paper describes MOSAICA system--a web 2.0-based toolbox, dedicated for the preservation and presentation of cultural heritage. This paper also describes an evaluation study that examined MOSAICA…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Cultural Background, Use Studies
E-Books: Why They Matter for Distance Education--And How They Could Get Much Better
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Rothman, David – Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 2006
In his assessment of the current state of e-book technology, David Rothman illustrates the value of e-books for educators, accounts for why the technology has not been more widely embraced, and discusses new developments that suggest a better future for e-books. For educators, particularly distance educators, e-books hold great potential to…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Electronic Publishing, Intermode Differences, Performance Factors
Children's E-Book Technology: Devices, Books, and Book Builder
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Shiratuddin, Norshuhada; Landoni, Monica – Information Technology in Childhood Education Annual, 2003
This article describes a study of children's electronic books (e-books) technology. In particular, the focus is on devices used to access children's e-books, current available e-books and an e-book builder specifically for children. Three small case studies were conducted: two to evaluate how children accept the devices and one to test the ease of…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Technology Education, Use Studies, Electronic Learning