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Visual Literacy and Media Literacy QuickLink: Brutally Honest Oscar Posters
February 22, 2013 By 1 Comment
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 the Red Carpet: Celebrity ‘Make Unders’
February 8, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Rarely do we have the opportunity to deconstruct images so rigorously that they actually invert themselves in the process… making the celebrities in question less attractive than they really are.
Media Literacy, Powerfully: A Model for School Librarian and Classroom Teacher Collaboration
February 1, 2013 By 7 Comments
“We use cereal boxes which hang in the library to identify the different aspects used to sell to adults vs children…”
Comics Creation Tools: Thoughts From ‘The Graphic Classroom’
January 7, 2013 By 3 Comments
“Visual literacy is as old as humanity. Humans learned to communicate visually before they communicated with text. It’s really not new; it just might feel new.”
Comics Creation & Critical Thinking: From Doctor Who to Bitstrips
January 5, 2013 By 5 Comments
The limitations of most Comics Creation software are actually strengths when it comes to learning about media and enhancing critical thinking skills…
Digital and Media Literacies at the NCTE Annual Convention
November 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment
A handy list of all the NCTE session that are specifically sponsored by the Media and Digital Literacies Collaborative…
Book Giveaway: Totally MAD — 60 Years of Humor, Satire, Stupidity and Stupidity
November 2, 2012 By 11 Comments
Is this the media literacy book of the year? A case could definitely be made…
Recommended Comics for Schools: Annie Sullivan, Mystery Boxes, Anna & Froga
September 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Skills and teaching topics covered in this post include visual literacy, nonfiction, genre, and transliteracy…
(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.
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