Michael Torres presented a fascinating Session at BLC today about how he engages students using multimedia. This is his page and it has some great work on it. He used music to introduce algebra. It was very cool.
"Buchem, I., Attwell, G. & Torres, R. (2011). Understanding Personal Learning Environments: Literature Review and Syntheis Through Activity Theory Lense.
In: Proceedings on the PLE Conference 2011.
List of References used for the literature review in alphabetical order:"
Note: this is a wiki, so watch for updates (CA)