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Learner Digital Stories in a Web 2.0 Age
Author(s) -
ALAMEEN GHINWA
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
tesol journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.468
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1949-3533
pISSN - 1056-7941
DOI - 10.5054/tj.2011.259954
Subject(s) - class (philosophy) , digital media , computer mediated communication , multimedia , computer science , world wide web , mathematics education , psychology , pedagogy , sociology , the internet , artificial intelligence
This article reports on a 4‐week class project in which students created Web 2.0 digital stories and shared and discussed them with their peers using VoiceThread, a digital media online tool. Participants were English language learners in an academic writing class at a major research university in the United States. Digital stories provided an interactive venue for building learner communities, fostering collaboration, engaging learners in multi‐literacies, and creating opportunities for global audience interaction and feedback.