Schooltoons was a research project, which offered animation activities to schools in Norfolk. It brought together artists in residence and teachers to explore the imapct of animation on pupils' education.
Asking intriguing, open-ended questions is an effective way to encourage students to think deeply and to provide them with a meaningful context for learning.
These are the "Youth Portraits" included in EduTopia's Digital Generation Video Project. We are watching one of these each week in our "Technology 4 Teachers" class at UCO in Spring 2010, and students are reflecting on the videos in their blogs. Curriculum is on wiki.powerfulingredients.com
This multimedia archive on digital storytelling shares the results of a multi-campus study of student learning and digital storytelling in humanities classrooms. Digital stories are multimedia projects combining text, images, audio and video files into short film clips.