ABSTRACT
Every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, young children, siblings, and friends crowd the hallways outside the library of Morris Elementary School, waiting eagerly for their amigas/os to arrive and to enter the magical world of Las Redes. But the excitement is not one-sided. Undergraduate students trade accounts of their weekend events, their course readings, and share stories about the children at Las Redes Fifth Dimension after-school club as they make their way down the crowded 405 Freeway from a west coast university to Morris Elementary. The traditional barriers of age, educational experience, social class, and language differences are remediated as the naturally occurring ensembles of undergraduates and children take shape across the 10 weeks of the quarter, as these new friends collaborate on board and computer games, and on the newest addition to Las Redes, digital storytelling.
