Transmedia learning is a storytelling technique, in which educators and learners can expand a core knowledge and experience across different media platforms. The goal of this method goes beyond teaching how to produce content and manage these platforms, but to develop new engaging ways for students to relate to the content, and to understand it, so that they can share it.

One of the biggest challenges this way of teaching represents, besides the cost involved in getting the digital tools required to carry out the technique, is teacher training. New technologies can often intimidate educators who are not versed in the usage of computers and other devices, and thus some may be reluctant to adopt them not because they don’t understand their benefits, but out of fear of not being able to manage the situation.

Organizations concerned with young children’s health and well-being largely because of concerns about possible negative effects of extensive screen-viewing time on children’s development.

• Use graphic novels, comics, videos, machinima, and film to provide back-story

• Use social media and user generated content for commentary developing into a story line

• Use mobile, television/web for unfolding episodes.

• Provide several points of entry into the story

• Use all media, not just digital media

• Try opportunities to explore broader story in different ways to enrich the core experience

• Go beyond each individual element to tell the story of your universe

• Use a narrative framework of media elements that invite the learner into a world and allows for co-creation

• Leverage synchronous and asynchronous, private, and public