It’s not just dollars that are getting invested in the crowdfunding process, but fans themselves.
Crowdfunding, Fandom, and Media Literacy: One Key Thing We Should Be Teaching Kids
April 14, 2013 By 3 Comments
Teaching Genre Conventions From a Fan’s Perspective
March 26, 2013 By Leave a Comment
While some readers may view particular story elements as clichés, a fan might see them as enduring archetypes…
Guest Post by Gabrielle Bondi… Five Things Readers and Fans Don’t Know About YA Movies But Should (Part 2)
November 28, 2012 By 1 Comment
After leaving the test screening for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 1, I was bombarded with questions about literally every scene in the book.
Guest Post by Gabrielle Bondi… Five Things Readers and Fans Don’t Know About YA Movies But Should (Part 1)
November 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I hate to be a killjoy, but it’s important not to let fans get ahead of themselves…
“Are Zombies Good for Kids?”: A Lively Roundtable
October 27, 2012 By 2 Comments
” I can see where it’s alarming to see your kid looking like a corpse, but it’s all part of rebellion, of saying the “regular” world of mortgages and wars and nuclear meltdown frightens them and they want to distance themselves from it…”
Moonrise Kingdom’s Lesson: Tweens are the New Teens… and the New Adults
October 17, 2012 By 1 Comment
Stories about tweens simply aren’t like those about teens or adults or “children”…
Guest Post by Ryan Goble… Uncommon Literacies: Teaching ‘This American Life’ (2)
September 6, 2012 By Leave a Comment
If our job as educators is to engage the hearts and minds of our students I can think of no better pop cultural text than “This American Life” to uncover the silly, strange, and sublime states of the human condition with our students.
Guest Post by Robin Brenner… This Summer’s Female Heroes: Fighting More Than One Battle (2)
August 29, 2012 By Leave a Comment
The mainstream comics industry has been roundly (and justifiably) criticized for its problematic representation of women as well as its reluctance to acknowledge women as a fanbase with valid opinions.
(Re)Connecting the Pop: The Hunger Games, Election 2012, Ray Bradbury, The Avengers
August 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Revisiting some of the pop culture topics covered here over the past few months by way of sharing some related links that get at media literacy, visual literacy, and transliteracy.
“Movie-Proofing”: An Engaging Way to Build Transliterate Connections Between Page and Screen
August 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
How to make sure that a ticket for a movie adaptation doesn’t simply translate to a decent score on a comprehension-based quiz on the source novel?
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