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.
4 Questions for Richard Beach about Literacy and Digital Comics Creation
January 18, 2013 by
“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…”
Comics Generators and Literacy: Edtech and Nontech Insights from Bill Zimmerman
January 9, 2013 by
“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.”
Comics Creation Tools: Thoughts From ‘The Graphic Classroom’
January 7, 2013 by
“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
The limitations of most Comics Creation software are actually strengths when it comes to learning about media and enhancing critical thinking skills…
Guest Post by Christopher Shamburg… When the Lit Hits the Fan in Teacher Education
November 23, 2012 by
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.
Digital and Media Literacies at the NCTE Annual Convention
November 7, 2012 by
A handy list of all the NCTE session that are specifically sponsored by the Media and Digital Literacies Collaborative…