Storytelling is an integral part of the learning process, and this project looks to tap into the inundation of media that children are subjected to, as a tool to facilitate this. The hope is that children will become more actively participant in the world in which they live (specifically the digital world), instead of being passive consumers.

I believe that by having children become actively involved with the fims and television they watch, they can develop their storytelling and literacy skills, and they can learn to work collaboratively. As well as being given a new means of self-expression via video editing, which, I think, will be vital for them as they progress past primary and into secondary school, given the prominence of the internet in our culture.

The aim is to produce useful tools which can be used easily in the classroom, by any teacher. The tools will consist of storyboard sheets, computer guidelines and ideas how to use them in the classroom. The ideal lesson would be to have children watch, storyboard and then remix and edit a popular movie.

I am a researcher at the University of Dundee, Scotland.

I have great interest in film, the media, education, popular culture and interactive media.