• This blog entry from Prof. Gardner Campbell at the University of Mary Washington describes a student 'paper' that unexpectedly included a public domain clip from an old movie to illustrate the student's argument.

• This TLT Group web site is one example of the advantages of including evidence inside the project and organizing the project around that evidence. Contrast this page with a traditional article written by this author about this same topic (click here to see the article), examples are mentioned, but the reader can't actually see them.  A footnote is not the same thing as a link.

• Some uses of multimedia are already going farther.  Peter Donaldson of MIT has led the development of a free software package called XMAS. XMAS enables students to build their papers around video clips (e.g. for courses on Shakespearean plays, students can take video clips from one, or several, videos of performances, and use those video clips as the spine of their projects, attaching their commentaries at different points of the videos.) (Click here for more on XMAS). [If you look into XMAS, let us know. The TLT Group is currently (Jan - Oct. 2006) doing a study of the adoption of XMAS at other institutions; we'd like to learn what happened, whether you adopted XMAS or not.]

• One example of writing that includes the evidence as the spine of writing is digital story telling. This student project (requires Windows Media Player) was created by Charea Batiste in a course, "Becoming Citizen Historians," taught by Cecelia O'Leary; the poster was created as part of O'Leary's work in the Visible Knowledge Project.

Digital Writing Across the Curriculum l Implications of Technology for the Shape of a College Education