scispace - formally typeset
Journal ArticleDOI

Transformation through Technology: How HyperStudio Updated Middle School Research.

Victoria Shaw Haviland, +1 more
- 01 Sep 1999 - 
- Vol. 89, Iss: 1, pp 63-68
TLDR
In this article, a pair of middle school English teachers successfully revised a traditional research project by using HyperStudio, but they had no experience using the technology and certainly no experience teaching it.
Abstract
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.

read more

Citations
More filters
Dissertation

Hypermedia storytelling in the middle years of schooling

Peter Thomas
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a hypermedia-authoring program with middle-years students at an Australian secondary school to encourage them to creatively author hypermedia stories and create collaborative and innovative group work built on technical facilities and expertise developed by students outside of school.
Journal ArticleDOI

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

TL;DR: The authors explored 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.