Developing Digital Literacy Skills through Interactive Images, Multimedia Mashups, and Global Groups

The increased availability of online collaboration tools enables participants in different locations to create knowledge and work together. This paper shares the results of a project in which first-year introductory technology students from Bentley University in the United States and fourth-year multimedia students from Politehnica University of Timisoara in Romania worked together in an online global educational environment to research technology trends and create multimedia artifacts that shared their findings.