Transmedia + Education = ?

Which learning paths might be created

through a transmedia storytelling project

What type of transmedia storytelling projects

Which media integration models

Theory

Project

(design -> development -> implementation -> assessment)

Patrícia Rodrigues

PROJECT

PLATFORMS PURPOSE

Webisodes Provide space for the development of

Facebook reading /writing, listening/

Twitter speaking skills

Tumblr Engage ESL learners in the

Edmodo exploration of topics such as media

culture, multiculturalism, linguistic

diversity and use of technology.

AUDIENCE

teenagers (14-17 years old)
ESL learners
Portuguese students

CAT'S JOURNEY

The User's Journey

What's next?

Development

Implementation

Test a beta version of the project
with a control group of students

Readjustment

According to feedback refine and produce a new version

Reflection

“Reflection may be the primary mechanism for drawing on known-to-the-practitioner theory and knowledge and for initiating the search for new (to-the-practitioner) theory and knowledge the

latter may be brought into the process by a quite different route.”

Scrivener, S. (2000) Reflection in and on action and practice in creative-production doctoral projects in art and design