1. Cooperative learning

2. A "voice" for those unrepresented or underrepresented

3. Its use to voice individual or community issues or concerns. It does not depend on institutional media for representation. Final products may be displays, books, presentations, web pages, etc.

•Visual learning and literacy

1.Construction and deconstruction of imagery.

2.Analysis of existing images.

3.Construction of desired imagery/illustration for a project.

4.Storyboarding

•Verbal/textual learning and practice:

1.intended as a stimulus to literacy

2.reading, researching

3.writing, editing

4.multiple perspectives:

Of a single subject

Of related subjects

Of interpretations of subject

Of teams

Of communities

Of cultural biases or worldviews

Expression:

1. Often overlooked, but much-needed

2. Of individual, team, community