[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

[10.3f.1] Cynthia Johnson (2003, A Few Cool Ways You Too Can Use MOOs, Kairos 7(2)) discusses some ways of using MOOs to help students explore alternative perspectives/roles.

[10.3f.2] In their on-line book chapter “The Individual Identity in Electronic Discourse: A Portfolio of Voices,” Boyd Davis and Jeutonne P. Brewer examine the ways in which on-line participants adopt a range of different voices associated with experimenting with different identities.

[10.3f.3] Brave New World MOO

[10.3f.4] Wikipedia: MOO’s

[10.3f.5] MUDs and MOOs: Collaborative Narrative Play at Work in the Classroom

[10.3f.6] Encore 4.0: MOO software

[10.3f.7] MediaMOO: site for media researchers

[10.3f.8] Virtual Writing Center MOO: site for writers

[10.3f.9] CityMOO: site dealing with urban issues

[10.3f.10] Cybersphere: site set in the future