Abstract

This paper presents two nine-year-old children who used different oral, written, visual, and digital modes as resources to create meaning and to position themselves socially through multimodal stories. Their diverging experiences with technology as a resource for storytelling draw attention to the importance of studying "the ways that old and new ideas [about literacy] merge and clash across contexts". Furthermore, their experiences help researchers and teachers understand the social purposes and dynamics of storytelling in a technology-rich classroom. (Contains 2 figures.)

Citation

Ware, P.D. (2006). From Sharing Time to Showtime! Valuing Diverse Venues for Storytelling in Technology-Rich Classrooms. Language Arts, 84(1), 45-54. Retrieved August 10, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/65368/.

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Keywords

• children
• Computer Software
• educational technology
• Freehand Drawing
• Literacy Education
• Oral Language
• Story Telling
• Summer Programs
• Written Language