Stories About Children and Teachers as They Create Multimedia Documents in a University Influenced Small City School and a Large Inner-city School

This paper presents a series of stories about students. Each story was written by a different researcher. Together, the stories represent what one might expect children to experience from a project-based teaching strategy. In general, the results indicate that children are very motivated by these projects. In some cases, they learn how to cooperatively create a product. They refine their technological competence through applied use of computer tools. These computer tools allow the children to be creative in the generation of their products. If you would like to get a feel for the kind of products that children created as part of this project (though for anonymity reasons, not the specific ones described in this paper), then click here.