[10.1] Teaching Strategies for Interpreting and Constructing Media Texts

[10.2] Studying Film Adaptations of Literature and Theater

[10.2a] Different Modes of Adaptation

[10.3] Organizing the Curriculum Around Teaching Strategies for Interpreting and Constructing Media Texts

[10.3a] Comparing Differences in Experience of Different Types of Media

[10.3b] Interpreting and Producing Narratives

[10.3c] Interpreting Characters’ Actions, Beliefs, Agendas, Goals

[10.3d] Contextualizing Texts in Terms of Cultural and Historical Worlds

[10.3e] Defining Intertextual / Hyptertextual Connections Between Texts

[10.3f] Uses of Intertextuality in Language Use and Voices in Chat, Blogs, or MOOs

[10.3g] Judging Quality of Literary and Media Texts

[10.4] Designing Units

[10.4a] Techniques for Developing Units

[10.4b] Evaluation and Assessment of Learning

[10.5] References

[10.6] Teaching Activities

Powerpoints

[10.3b.1] Students could compare the storyline variation in the many different versions of King Lear (from Shakespeare Magazine).

Game Research:

[10.3b.2] GameResearch.com

Comics

[10.3b.2a] Digital Webbing: links to online comics
[10.3b.2b] Online comics
[10.3b.2c] The Comic Creator: Create online comics
[10.3b.2d] Graffix: Creating comics and graphic novels
[10.3b.2e] Scott McCloud’s Website: online comics resources
[10.3b.2f] Comic Books: Internet Resources
[10.3b.2g] Yale University Library’s Comic Books, Comic Strips, and Graphic Novels Research Guide
[10.3b.2h] Comic Book Resources
[10.3b.2i] National Association of Comic Arts Educators
[10.3b.2j] Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art
[10.3b.2k] vImageTexT: articles about comics/interactive media
[10.3b.2l] Comics in the Classroom as an Introduction to Genre Study
[10.3b.2m] Idleworm: Animation tutorial
[10.3b.2n] Balloon Tales: lettering and production
[10.3b.2o] Making comics: technical aspects
[10.3b.2p] Comics in Education
[10.3b.2q] Brent Wood: Brambletown: example of an online comic

[10.3b.3] Joystick101.org

Manga and graphic novels

[10.3b.3a] ArtBomb: go to "What is a graphic novel?"
[10.3b.3b] Seventhsanctum: manga generators: prompts and ideas
[10.3b.3c] Using manga in the Classroom
[10.3b.3d] Polykarbon: manga production techniques
[10.3b.3e] Wikipedia: How to draw manga
[10.3b.3f] Tutorial: How to draw manga
[10.3b.3g] Google: Online manga
[10.3b.3h] Recommended manga (2005)

[10.3b.4] Ludology.org Game Studies [ a journal of computer game research ]

[10.3b.4a] E-Poetry Center
[10.3b.4b] Creating Poetry Videos
[10.3b.4c] Digital Poetry Project
[10.3b.4d] Unit: Multimedia Poetry
[10.3b.4e] Unit: Poems, Poems Everywhere
[10.3b.4f] Cinematic Poetry
[10.3b.4g] e-Poets
[10.3b.4h] Poems that Go: digital poetry
[10.3b.4i] Interactive Poetry Page: add words to poems
[10.3b.4j] EveryPoet: share online poetry
[10.3b.4k] Poetry Portal: lots of links
[10.3b.4l] English Teaching Online: Teaching poetry
[10.3b.4m] The World of Poetry: video and audio poems

[10.3b.5] Games-to-Teach Project [educational game development at MIT ]

For further reading:

DiSessa, A. (2001). Changing minds: Computers, learning, and literacy. Boston: MIT Press.

Gee, J. P. (2003). What video games have to teach us about learning and literacy. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Gee, J. P.  (2006).  Don't bother me mom--I'm learning!  New York: Paragon House Publishers

Herz, J. C. (1997). Joystick nation: How videogames ate our quarters, won our hearts, and rewired our minds. New York: Little, Brown.

Myers, D. (2003). The nature of computer games: Play as semiosis. New York: Peter Lang.

Prensky, M. (2000). Digital game based learning. New York: McGraw-Hill.