| February, 2012

Young Authors storytelling project goes digital

Ball State students taught Burris Elementary School students how to create interactive multimedia stories using an iPad this year. Roughly 220 students in grades K-5 at Burris worked with Ball State students led by Professor Jennifer George-Palilonis to write original stories and then supplement those stories with video, audio, interactive graphics and photo galleries. Ball […]


Students create digital transmedia story centered around New Harmony

Students create digital transmedia story centered around New Harmony

King and George-Palilonis received a Provost Immersive Learning grant for Transmedia Indiana, a yearlong project to create a fictionalized story using real-world artifacts from the Indiana State Museum. Transmedia narratives are an emergent storytelling form that takes a single cohesive story, breaks it into pieces and then tells that story in a non-linear fashion across […]


Live from the London Summer Olympics

Live from the London Summer Olympics

This summer, Ball State students are working alongside media professionals from around the world at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Not only will these students travel for the single largest international sporting event, but they also will be producing original content for “Ball State at the Games.” This initiative is the brainchild of Professor […]


Lending a digital hand

Lending a digital hand

Ball State students to work at social media command center for Indianapolis Internet marketing firm as part of Super Bowl activities. By Marc Ransford Ball State University students are playing a key role in a social media effort to assist visitors to Indianapolis before and during the 2012 Super Bowl. Over the last several months, […]