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This idea is useful for helping scholars of teaching and learning think through the impact of new media technologies on the practice of capturing and representing evidence of student learning and drawing conclusions from it.

Thinking with clarity about the role of technology is key when research focuses on the use of technology in the classroom and when the presentation of that research takes advantage of new media technologies.

The results of this study are available in print (see AHHE Forum on Digital Storytelling, Vol. 7.2, 2008) and also online at the Digital Storytelling Multimedia Archive.2

There is a somewhat familiar relationship between research and writing which underpins student work; however, because students are working towards a digital end, they are already thinking about their work as being different—more visual, more compressed, and more public than traditional writing products.

Thus, the grid designates a liminal space between the protocols of database and linear narrative in a multimedia environment.

The tension between grid and linear Web site as two related, yet fundamentally different ways to represent evidence of student learning is one of the most challenging aspects of our meta-study.

hese publications follow the hermeneutics of linear, hierarchical, cause-and-effect narratives.

the database is the privileged narrative of the computer age, and its logic is fundamentally different from that of linear print narratives

his absence of hierarchy is symptomatic of the database as “cultural form:”

reducing complexity through categorization works well only if certain criteria are met. First, in terms of the domain of knowledge to be organized, classification is dependent on a “small corpus, formal categories, stable and restricted entities, and clear edges.” Second, successful classification assumes “expert catalogers, an authoritative source of judgment,” as well as “coordinated” and “expert users.”8 One of our goals for this study is to make our findings publicly available in an online archive, accessible to the scholarship of teaching community and beyond. For such an environment, Shirky adds, reducing complexity through stable categories is a “bad strategy:”

Users have a terrifically hard time guessing how something they want will have been categorized in advance, unless they have been educated about those categories in advance as

Through collaborative coding/tagging and the production of further metadata in a collaborative effort with the academic community, we aim to push the limits of analyzing and representing student learning in Web 2.0 environments.