[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

[10.4a.1] Jim Burke's “school tools” includes various informal writing tools for fostering student thinking about texts.

Guidelines associated with “fair use” of media texts for educational, non-commercial, classroom use:

[10.4a.2]Fair Use Guidelines for Off-Air Recording of Broadcast Programming for Educational Purposes
[10.4a.3]Extended Taping Rights of PBS programs
[10.4a.4]Teachers' or students' multimedia projects employing copyrighted material

Further resources for unit development:

[10.4a.5] On-line lesson-plan development [ North Central Regional Education Lab ]
[10.4a.6] Teacher Universe lesson-plan developer

Literature units organized by texts:

[10.4a.7]Enlish online: Secondary Literature Texts

General collections of literature units/activities/courses:

[10.4a.8] Great Gatsby Webquest
[10.4a.9] American Literature [ University of Colorado ]
[10.4a.10] British Literature [ University of Colorado ]
[10.4a.11] Links to Literature
[10.4a.12] Dr. Allen Webb / Western Michigan University
[10.4a.13] CyberGuides: Teacher Guides and Student Activities
[10.4a.14] Doucette Index: K-12 Literature-Based Teaching Ideas
[10.4a.15] Course materials for literature courses [ Rutgers ]
[10.4a.16] Cyber English
[10.4a.17] CyberGuides: Grades 9-12
[10.4a.18] Teachervision.com: Literature Units and Resources
[10.4a.19] EDSITEment: All Subject Categories
[10.4a.20] EDSITEment: All Lessons

For further reading

Litman, J. (2006). Digital copyright.  New York: Prometheus Books.

Oostendorp, H. V., Breure, L., Dillon, A., & Breure, L.  (Eds.).  (2005).  Creation, use, and deployment of digital information.  Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Stebbins, L. F. (2005).  Student guide to research in the digital age: How to locate and evaluate information source.  Washington, DC: Libraries Unlimited.