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BEA, Famous Authors, and Why We’re All Guilty of Promoting ‘Celebrity Culture’
I guess there was some cosplay going on, but most participating attendees chose to dress up as publishing executives for some reason.
In Memory of ‘Script Frenzy’: Some Free Resources for Writing for Media
An array of free resources related to writing and producing media... to use yourself, or make available to others.
Q: How to Connect Critical Thinking, Research, and Information Literacy? A: Fandom
The task for educators is not to drain this sense of open-ended exploration from student-fans but rather to make sure that it is accompanied by the Jiminy Cricket-like voice of critical literacy...
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Using Single-Panel Cartoons to Introduce Scriptwriting to Students
A quick lesson idea that introduces scriptwriting by focusing on funny images and formal language.
Expanding a Book’s Universe
Together we looked for ‘cheese holes’, or spaces in the story that allow the audience to participate in, contribute further to, and augment the original story using their own intelligence and imagination.
Transmedia in Schools and Libraries: Thoughts and Strategies from Tyler Weaver
"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?"
Please Take This, Copy It, Use It, Improve It: A Digital Fandom Checklist
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.
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