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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2012 IEEE 12th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Rome
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1642-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2012.91
