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Good Comics for Kids
by Brigid Alverson
March 8, 2013 by Peter Gutierrez
"One of the students said to me, 'You know IWitness is kind of like a cross between a library and YouTube.'"
March 6, 2013 by Peter Gutierrez
"It was purposeful that the IWitness platform was built with media literacy and school standards around digital education right at the center of its architecture."
March 5, 2013 by Peter Gutierrez
Schindler’s List is a film that really doesn’t need much of an introduction from me. If you’ve seen it, you’ve seen it. If you haven’t, you probably should. Perhaps more than any other piece of moving-image media it has contributed to the “media construction” of the Holocaust for contemporary audiences, taking its place alongside Night […]
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February 1, 2013 by Peter Gutierrez
"We use cereal boxes which hang in the library to identify the different aspects used to sell to adults vs children..."
January 26, 2013 by Peter Gutierrez
Teaching librarians and language arts educators have, via fandom, a unique opening to reframe netiquette as something other than a subset of character education or online safety.
January 18, 2013 by Peter Gutierrez
"There’s a shift towards a more multimodal ways of communicating through digital videos, VoiceThread, and graphic novels/comics that is more appealing and engaging to adolescents who now expect such multimodal ways of learning..."
January 9, 2013 by Peter Gutierrez
"By encouraging their students to create comic strips, teachers accomplish important goals: they prepare their students for being able to appreciate art more, to gain visual literacy."
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