Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age
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a look at the creative and technical worlds of immersive storytelling
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Every Platform Tells a Story: Transmedia has the power to make any topic more vivid and personal

Every Platform Tells a Story: Transmedia has the power to make any topic more vivid and personal | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Peter Gutierrez: "When Andy Plemmons, a progressive media specialist at David C. Barrow Elementary in Athens, GA, was asked to help create a set of interdisciplinary lessons for fifth graders to learn about September 11, 2001, he naturally took a transmedia approach."

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Divergent Convergence: Learning in a Transmedia, Multiplatform World

Divergent Convergence: Learning in a Transmedia, Multiplatform World | Transmedia: Storytelling for the Digital Age | Scoop.it

Graphic novels are merging with digital comics and students are building their own animated stories and subject area reports to share on the web. In this session, you’ll learn to immerse young readers and writers in a transmedia world of information where divergent resources like websites, books, audio, and video converge.

 

[A fabulous resource for educators, and a great read for the rest of us.]

Carlie May King's curator insight, September 29, 2015 11:16 PM

This article discusses the various types of digital information that is available through transmedia. These digital technologies can allow students to create their own multi-media platforms and explore divergent thinking.