Students express themselves verbally, visually, and musically by creating multimodal autobiographies, exchanging ideas with other students and sharing important events in their lives through PowerPoint presentations.

Students participate in learning clubs, select content area topics, and draw on texts - including websites, printed material, video, and music - to investigate their topics, and share their learning using similar media.

This lesson leads students to reflect on and respond to literature by creating an online scrapbook. Students view a sample electronic scrapbook and use the project rubric to evaluate it, becoming familiar with the project requirements in the process. They use an online tool to evaluate resources on a topic related to a piece of literature and post their evaluations for class reference. Students then use online resources to capture ŕscrapsĚŇ of information about their assigned topic and create a scrapbook using PowerPoint or another presentation software, making sure to cite all their sources. They share their online scrapbook with the class, defending their choice of scrapbook entries: why is the entry important to the understanding of the topic?

This lesson focuses on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, but any piece of literature could be used for the basis of an online scrapbook.

Students reflect on their school year, creating a digital scrapbook consisting of images and text to present to their school community.

Students will whistle while they work on this lesson, creating a photomontage movie of their interpretation of a favorite song's lyrics that will end everyone's day on a high note.

This assignment will go viral with students as they think about the meanings of words and images in public service announcements from YouTube before creating a PSA of their own.

This website offers a printable book review template that can be used to guide students in writing book reviews. The template includes prompts for summarizing the book, identifying the main characters, and offering a personal opinion.

This rubric from ReadWriteThink can be used to evaluate student created book trailers and includes criteria for assessing the quality of the trailer's content, production value, and effectiveness in generating interest in the book.

Students analyze personal homepages, as well as a character in a book they have read, and then create a homepage for the character.

StoryMaker is a free learning platform powered by PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs. It is your one-stop shop for projects, tutorials, and lesson plans connected to media making, digital journalism, and public broadcasting.

This article discusses how to use digital storytelling in the classroom while keeping the focus on the story itself, not the technology.

Students are introduced to the genre of multimedia presentations through a review and analysis of online presentations. They then apply what they have learned to create their own multimedia presentations.

Writers and film buffs alike will sharpen their skills in this multimedia unit as they work together to author and design a digital video.

This article provides an overview of the free online tool VoiceThread and discusses how elementary teachers might use it in language arts and science classes. Resources provided.

A research article on the use of book trailers to promote reading in libraries. The article discusses the benefits of book trailers, provides examples of effective book trailers, and offers tips for creating book trailers that engage library patrons.

A video tutorial on creating book trailers, which provides an overview of the book trailer creation process and offers tips for selecting scenes and creating a compelling narrative.