media programs (education)

Offers librarians programming ideas designed to motivate middle school students and encourage lifelong learning.

Illustrations and photographs accompany ideas for enhancing the school media center, such as special themes and reading incentive activities.

Presents an introduction to digital storytelling and discusses its use in the classroom, and explains the development of five digital stories, each using a different software package, including Riverdeep's Kid Pix, Pinnacle Studio, Microsoft PowerPoint, Adobe Premiere, and Macromedia Flash.

Presents ideas for managing the school library media center with exercises for use in the classroom and in a workshop setting.