Just in case you missed this gallery of reimagined posters for the Best Picture Oscar nominees when College Humor debuted it last month…
Visual Literacy and Media Literacy QuickLink: Brutally Honest Oscar Posters
February 22, 2013 By 1 Comment
Transmedia in Schools and Libraries: Thoughts and Strategies from Tyler Weaver
February 7, 2013 By 21 Comments
“How can you tell a story in a game and have it be school-appropriate, while simultaneously making the student think about the implications of what they enjoy playing?”
Exploring Common Core’s Informational Text… with Violent Video Games
January 24, 2013 By 5 Comments
I’ll hazard that many of us don’t immediately think “games” when we think of “transliteracy,” but why not?
Guest Post by Christopher Shamburg… When the Lit Hits the Fan in Teacher Education
November 23, 2012 By 12 Comments
Teachers don’t have to teach Harry Potter, Captain America, or World of Warcraft, but they can allow students to build their writing on these stories.
“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…”
Watch These Movies About Fandom Instead of “Comic-Con Episode IV”
April 6, 2012 By
Pauline Kael, William Shatner, Mark Hamill, and “Troll 2″… all can help shed light on the teaching, learning, and “literacies” that occur around and within fandom.
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