• DocumentCode
    2962044
  • Title

    Digital Storytelling at School: Engagement and Educational Benefits

  • Author

    Blas, Nicoletta Di ; Paolini, Paolo

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. & Inf., Politec. di Milano, Milan, Italy
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    4-6 July 2012
  • Firstpage
    248
  • Lastpage
    250
  • Abstract
    This paper presents PoliCultura, a large-scale initiative introducing collaborative digital storytelling in formal education. PoliCultura has involved more than 17,000 participants from 2006, from pre-school to high school. It engages participants and also fosters the achievement of substantial educational benefits, monitored each year via online surveys, Skype interviews and focus groups. The paper describes the initiative and reports the evaluation´s data.
  • Keywords
    computer aided instruction; groupware; PoliCultura; Skype interviews; collaborative digital storytelling; educational benefits; focus groups; formal education; high school; large-scale initiative; preschool; Aging; Collaboration; Educational institutions; Interviews; Monitoring; Multimedia communication; Virtual environments; digital storytelling; educational benefits; multichannel; multimedia;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Rome
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1642-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICALT.2012.91
  • Filename
    6268089