Bridget Patel was awarded the Bill Tagg Bursary in 2004/05.
This case study focuses on the learner's experience of school-based educational multimedia in the context of their literacy development in an increasingly mulitmodal (the use of multiple modes of communication) world of communication. It explores the uses of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) with which Year 2 children participate in a 'typical' school day, during English and ICT lessons; and furthermore how children's perceptions of ICT are rendered in their on and off-screen work. Literacy (in the traditional and 'techno' senses), creativity and multimodality are key concepts. At a time when communication is shifting to the degree that warrants a revisiting of the English curriculum and the drawing up of policy guidance on digital content quality the relevance of rich, deeply detailed pupil data and pupil consultation is greatly significant.