Literary Launch

Overview: The Literary Launch website gives students access to online stories in either video, audio, or text format, and offers teachers a curriculum based on the Teaching for Understanding learning theory. Students can publish sequels to stories and are offered a forum to post thoughts and ideas on other's sequels. Teachers can follow a curriculum guide that efficiently communicates student requirements over the Internet. The site also offers functionality that gives teachers the ability to measure student performance against peers.

Technology: HTML, Quicktime video editing, audio encoding in mp3 format

Authors:

• Content/Research: Paula Stanziani, Russ Vanderpool
• Front End Web Design/Developer: Russ Vanderpool
• Video/Audio Encoding: Russ Vanderpool

Released: January, 2002