PageCraft is an interactive storytelling platform that supports narrative development for young children. It is designed to provide a transition between physical and digital media. By associating physical objects with text and visuals displayed on a digital screen, the system offers children progressive experiences in storytelling through a rich multi-sensory environment they can share with their parents, caregivers, and friends. A multidisciplinary initiative, PageCraft builds a bridge between theory and practice by combining experience in interactive product design together with research in digital narrative to focus on context of use. The system design considers the context of children's experience of narrative as they grow and develop -they learn on the go and they learn from those around them. Historically it has been convenient to pack up books and building blocks for a summer vacation or a day trip to visit grandparents. Most technically oriented products do not meet these criteria. This project presents the prototype framework for a system that aims to address the demands of such daily routines.

Objective(s): Students will utilize critical-thinking skills and creativity to learn about research databases that are useful for finding information, particularly for journalism and telecommunications needs. Each pair will ultimately produce a screencast, that is, a video screen capture with audio narration, as a semester activity for this five-week course that (1) offers succinct background information about its assigned database, (2) explains database utility for students and scholars, (3) demonstrates focused searches with Boolean operators and special characters, and (4) evaluates sources from the search results for accuracy.

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