Multimedia and Literacy Development

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@contents: Selected Contents Table of Contents 1. Introduction - Adriana Bus and Susan B. Neuman Part I. Understanding the Multimedia Environment for Learning 2. Children and the Media-Ellen Wartella 3. Digital Beginnings: Young children's Use of Popular Culture, Media and New Technologies-Jackie Marsh 4. A Theory of Synergy- Susan B. Neuman Part II. Designing Multimedia Applications for Learning 5. eBooks as Learning Objects in an Online World - Kathleen Roskos 6. A New Look at an Old Format: Eye Tracking Studies of Shared Book Reading and the Implications for E-Books and E-book Research-Evans 7. Learning from Interactive Vocabulary books in Kindergarten: Looking back, Looking Forward-Segers 8. Progress in Understanding the Uses of Multimedia for Struggling Readers-Van Daal 9. Old and new media in the lives of young bilingual children at risk: effects on first and second language learning--Paul P.M. Leseman & Aziza Y. Mayo Part III. New Approaches to Storybook Reading 10. How multimedia representations contribute to a literate mind for second language learners - Adriana Bus Maria de Jong & Marian Verhallen (Leiden University, Netherlands) 11. The Educational Electronic Book as a Tool for Supporting Children's Emergent Literacy - Adina Shamir & Ofra Korat (Bar Ilan University, Israel) 12. Effects of multimedia stories on literacy development for early English language learners - Yuuko Uchikoshi (University of California, US) 13.Let's do the computer story again, Nana: A Case Study of how a two-year-old and his grandmother shared thinking spaces during Multiple Shared Readings of an Electronic Story, Linda Laboo Part IV: Multimedia Applications in Classroom Instruction 14. Development and evaluation of a multimedia Success for All reading program - Chambers, Slavin, & Madden (John Hopkins University, U15. US) 15. Use of Electronic Storybooks in Reading Instruction: From Theory to Practice - Michael McKenna (Georgia Southern University, US) 16. Computer-Assisted Tutoring: Two Studies of Reading Outcomes in First Grade Classrooms-Chambers et al. 17. Using multimedia to promoting early literacy - Schleifer, Levin, Shilton, Freund, & Levin (University of Tel Aviv, Israel) Part V: Summary and Conclusions 18. Summary and Conclusions: Where do we go from here? - Adriana Bus & Susan B. Neuman