[2.3.1] Toward Critical Multimedia Literacy. Jay Lemke argues that these new media are highly multimedia in that they integrate images, sounds, animation, and video, as well as interactive participation.

Websites and digital games that are based on feature films:

The Lord of the Rings:

[2.3.2] New Line Cinema.
[2.3.3] Electronic Arts videogames series
[2.3.4] Sierra videogames series

The Matrix:

[2.3.5] Warner Bros.
[2.3.6] video game site

[2.3.7] The Prince of Persia: the user controls the time of the game

For further reading on Lemke’s theories of digital learning:

[2.3.8] Lemke, J. (1998). Metamedia literacy: Transforming meanings and media. In D. Reinking, L. Labbo, M. McKenna, & R. Kiefer (Eds.), Handbook of literacy and technology: Transformations in a post-typographic world(pp.283-301). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. [Online]
[2.3.9] Lemke, J.L. 2002. Notes on multimedia and hypertext. [Online]
[2.3.10] Lemke, J. L. (in press). Travels in hypermodality. Visual Communication. [Online]

[2.3.11] Dave Jonassen’s course on constructivist learning and technology (specific examples of using technology to foster constructivist learning)

[2.3.12] Storyspace™ is a hypertext authoring tool published by Eastgate Software

[2.3.13] Hypertext and Hypermedia

[2.3.14] For examples of hypertext fiction see the Reading Room at Eastgate Software.

[2.3.15] The America Web Middle school students used Storyspace™ (Bolter, Smith, & Joyce, 1990) to construct hypertexts based on research on American history and culture (Patterson, 2000).

[2.3.16] Inspiration -- concept mapping tool.

[2.3.17] Tinderbox -- writing organization tool

[2.3.18] NoteTaker

[2.3.19] NoteBook 

[2.3.20] OneNote  

[2.3.21] In a university-community collaborative after-school/summer program in Oakland, California, DUSTY—“Digital Underground Storytelling for Youth,” adolescents create and display multimedia digital stories consisting of a narrative with the author’s voice along with photographs, video, and music (Hull, 2003).

[2.3.22] Digital Storytelling

[2.3.23] Traci Gardner: Read-Write-Think lesson: students to keep a daily diary of their audio media use and reflect on their practices and interests.

[2.3.24] Traci Gardner, Writing Technology Autobiographies