Mark Guzdial
Abstract
While there is a lot of speculation about the benefits of multimedia exploration, research on learning and technology suggests that the creation of media by students has even greater benefit for learning. Students learn through articulating their knowledge in their multimedia documents, reviewing their own work, and receiving comments and critiques on their work. In the research of the Collaborative Software Lab (http://coweb.cc.gatech.edu/csl), we are particularly interested in exploring the creation of media through collaborative technology. By having students work together in creating diverse media, we encourage review and critique, and create opportunities for joint learning. We have been using an environment for collaborative multimedia in several computer science classes, and in this paper, we describe some of the activities that teachers have invented for using the CoWeb.
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