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
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