Writing in place: A case study of secondary school students' appropriation of writing and technology

This research is into supporting students to creatively author hypermedia stories. It builds on previous work that focussed on hypermedia as a support to specific content delivery and the development of reasoning with students. The research was conducted using a hypermedia-authoring program with middle-years students at an Australian secondary school. Classroom environments were created in which collaborative and innovative group work built on technical facilities and expertise developed by students outside of school.

Hypermedia storytelling in the middle years of schooling

In this article, we share our experiences working with students to read and/or write visual essays, texts that rely more heavily on images with minimal print text. We explore how students consider elements of design as they create a visual essay, which entails new forms of semiotic processing of the combinations of the visual, audio, textual, gestural and spatial. In particular, we share a case study of how one adolescent engages with an alternative to the standard essay format when he is not restricted by the use of words alone, but is encouraged to tap into the affordances of digital media, expressing himself multimodally by using words, images and sound.

Engaging students through new literacies: the good, bad and curriculum of visual essays

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Hyper media Storytelling in the Middle Year s of Schooling.

The Writing Process for "Edutaining" CD-ROM Adventures.

research project, but we had absolutely no experience using the technology-and certainly no experience teaching it. To our surprise, however, we, a pair of middle school English teachers, successfully revised a traditional research project by using HyperStudio. This article assumes a reader who may be unfamiliar, as we were, with such technology and attempts to provide an encouraging model for how computer technology can be used to enhance research presentation, foster collaboration, and serve multiple learning styles.

Mary Jane McCall

Papers

Transformation through Technology: How HyperStudio Updated Middle School Research.