CI5472 Teaching Film, Television, and Media

Teachingmedialiteracy.com: A Web-Linked Guide to Resources and Activities

Chapter 2: Adolescents’ uses of new digital media

[2.1] Adolescents’ Uses of New Media in Media Education

[2.2] Literacies through the Use of New Media

[2.3] Learning to Make Connections

[2.4] Engaging in Inquiry-Based Critical Literacy through Blogs and Wikis

[2.5] Video Games and Problem-Solving Strategies

[2.6] Engaging in Critical-Inquiry Learning through Webquests

[2.7] Employing Webquests in the Classroom

[2.8] Further Online Resources for Integrating the Web into Media Studies

[2.9] General Use of the Internet in Education

[2.10] Organizations that Promote the Use of Technology in Schools

[2.11] Web-based Resources for Teaching Media Literacy

[2.12] References

[2.4] Engaging in Inquiry-Based Critical Literacy through Blogs and Wikis

[2.4.1] The Inquiry Page housed at the University of Illinois is designed to help teachers share inquiry-based teaching units, teaching successes, and collective expertise (Bruce & Davidson, 1996; Bruce & Easley, 2000).

[2.4.2] Community Digital Storytelling Collaborative: Using scripting in the classroom to involve students in formulating an issue

[2.4.3] Troy Hicks: using digital portfolios to engage in inquiry

[2.4.4] Project-based learning through use of digital tools: lots of links (Canadian site)

[2.4.5] For an analysis of the role of the media in fostering a consumption society, see Advertising and the End of the World, with Sut Jhally. (For a written version, see "Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse" by Sut Jhally.)

[2.4.6] Simscity involves players in city planning activities designed to address problems of crime, housing, transportation, employment, etc., facing urban dwellers, requiring players to develop ways to address these problems in the future.

Studens could also use digital tools to express their concern about issues and problems facing society, as evident in the use of e-zines. Information about zines:

[2.4.7] The Book of Zines: Readings from the Fringe
[2.4.8] The EText Archives
[2.4.9] Google.com directory: e-zines

[2.4.10] The museum of holography

The following are a few of the many art museums with digital art collections or with on-line resources for studying art:

[2.4.11]Museum of Web Art
[2.4.12] Museum of Computer Art
[2.4.13]Rhizome: digital art
[2.4.14]Telematics: Walker Art Center
[2.4.15]digital art collections
[2.4.16]Electronic Art Intermix
[2.4.17]New York Museum of Modern Art P.S.1
[2.4.18]Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art Digital Gallery
[2.4.19]Whitney Museum Artport
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[2.4.21] Museum of Online Museum

[2.4.22] Webmuseum of Cyberculture

[2.4.23] Louvre WebMuseum

[2.4.24] Blogger (for instructions on use of Blogger, see Meloni, J. (2006). Blogging in a Snap. Sams Publishing)

[2.4.25] Typepad

[2.4.26] MSN Spaces

[2.4.27] Yahoo 360

[2.4.28] Wordpress

[2.4.29] Edublogs: free blogs for teachers from Wordpress

[2.4.30] Movable Type

[2.4.31] Radio UserLand

[2.4.32] Angelfire (especially for adolescents, see Gosney, J. W. (2004). Blogging for Teens, Thomson, a book written for adolescents)

[2.4.33] Xanga

[2.4.34] Diaryland

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[2.4.36] Mike Heatherington: How to Setup a Student-Centered Blog

[2.4.37] Mike Heatherington: Room 613 Student Blog

[2.4.38] Educational Bloggers Network

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[2.4.40] Using blogs in education

[2.4.41] Mary Ulicsak, Can Blogging Be Used In Education? NESTA Futurelab

[2.4.42] Lorelle on WordPress: blog on using WordPress

Education/media criticism-related Blogs

[2.4.43] Kairos News blog: current uses of digital technology to teach writng

[2.4.44] Blog: BE: Composing the Digital Self

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[2.4.46] EdBlogger Praxis

[2.4.47] eSchoolNews: Ed Tech Insider

[2.4.48] David Warlick: 2 cents worth

[2.4.49] Tim O’Reilly

[2.4.50] Metafilter

[2.4.51] Blogcritics: contains posts on current media

[2.4.52] Vincent Maher, New Media Lab, Rhodes University, South Africa

[2.4.53] Publishing2: Publishing in the Digital Age

[2.4.54] Lifehacker

[2.4.55] Gixmodo

[2.4.56] Morph

[2.4.57] Jeff Jarvis: Buzzmachine: focus on media

[2.4.58] Timothy Karr: MediaCitizen

[2.4.59] Offical Google Blog

[2.4.60] The Idea Boomerang

[2.4.61] Jeff Rice: Yellow Dog

[2.4.62] Palimpsest

[2.4.63] Gawker

[2.4.64] Jim Romenesko's Poynter Institute

[2.4.65] Bud the Teacher: reflection on technology use, particularly in secondary language arts

[2.4.66] Eric Alterman

[2.4.67] Chip Scanlan: Why I Blog

[2.4.68] Stereogum: current popular music

[2.4.69] Byron Crawford: Hip-Hop Blog

[2.4.70] Mark Glaser, PBS blog Mediashift: media trends

[2.4.71] Flow: critical forum published by the Department of Radio, Television, and Film, University of Texas at Austin.

[2.4.72] Tim Lindgren: Blogging Places: Locating Pedagogy in the Whereness of Weblogs. Kairos, 10(1).

[2.4.73] Carolyn R. Miller and Dawn Shepherd: Blogging as Social Action: A Genre Analysis of the Weblog. Kairos, 10(1).

[2.4.74] Nardi, B. et al. (2004). I'm Blogging This: A Closer Look at Why People Blog:

[2.4.75] Nardi, B. (2004). Learning and Web Technologies in Evolution: Creativity and Catharsis in Blogging

Vlogs: blogs with video content

[2.4.76] Google Video: upload vlogs onto Google

[2.4.77] Vlog It!: tools for creating vlogs

[2.4.78] Rocketboom.com: vlog site produced by Amanda Congdon

[2.4.79] Minnesota Stories: vlog site produced by Chuck Olsen

[2.4.80] Freevlog.org: tutorial on how to vlog

[2.4.81] Ourmedia: vlog hosting

[2.4.82] VarsityTV: vlog hosting

[2.4.83] Videobloggers: vlog hosting

[2.4.84] Mefeedia.com: vlog hosting

[2.4.85] Meet the Vloggers: information about vlogging

[2.4.86] Videoblogging: information about vlogging

[2.4.87] Fireant: vlog directory

[2.4.88] Vlogdir.com: vlog directory

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[2.4.90] Vodcasts: vlog directory

[2.4.91] Videoblogging-universe: vlog directory

[2.4.92] Vlogmap: vlog directory based on location on a world map

[2.4.93] 49 Media: Magazine on vlogs

[2.4.94] TheInCrowdVlogs: promote vlogging

[2.4.95] Participatory Culture: organization promoting open-source broadcasts

[2.4.96] Medicine Films: vlogs

[2.4.97] BuzzMachine: Jeff Jarvis’s blog about vlogs

[2.4.98) High School Online Collaborative Writing at http://schools.wikicities.com

[2.4.99] The Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia

[2.4.100] Wikiversity: School of Media Studies

[2.4.101] Wikimatrix: different wiki engines

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[2.4.103] Wikiglossary: terms employed about wikis

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[2.4.105] For Teachers New to Wikis

[2.4.106] Wiki for a writing course at Bemidji State University

[2.4.107] Brian Lamb, Wide Open Spaces: Wikis, Ready or Not, EDUCAUSE Review, 39,

[2.4.108] Naomi Augar, Ruth Raitman and Wanlei Zhou, Teaching and learning online with wikis

[2.4.109] Susan Loudermilk Garza and Tommy Hern, Using Wikis as Collaborative Writing Tools: Something Wiki This Way Comes--Or Not!, Kairos, 10(1) (password: wiki)

[2.4.111] University of Southern California: Technology Newsletter: Teaching, Learning, and Other Uses for Wikis in Academia: All Users Are Not Necessarily Created Equal

[2.4.112] Alex Bruns and Sally Humphreys, Wikis in Teaching and Assessment: The M/Cyclopedia Project

[2.4.113] Moxley, J., Morgan, M. C., Barton, M., & Hanak, D. (2005). For Teachers New to Wikis

[2.4.114] Module: using wikis

[2.4.115] M.C. Morgan, Virtues Of Wiki: Singing the praises of using a wiki to teach writing

[2.4.116] Using Wikis as Collaborative Writing Tools

[2.4.117] Using Wiki in Education

[2.4.118] Wikihow: create how-to wikis

[2.4.119] Mrs. Huff’s English classroom wikis

[2.4.120] Paul Allison: Teaching with wikis

[2.4.121] Seekwiki: free hosting space

[2.4.122] UseModWiki: free hosting space

[2.4.123] Wikispaces: free hosting space

[2.4.124] Writingwiki: free hosting space

[2.4.125] TikiWiki: free hosting space

[2.4.126] Wetpaint: wiki creation site

[2.4.127] Wikicities: wiki communities; offers free MediaWiki hosting for a community to build a wiki

[2.4.128] PmWiki: wiki server software to create own wiki

[2.4.129] JotSpot: wiki server software to create own wiki

[2.4.130] MediaWiki: wiki server software to create own wiki

[2.4.131] Wikibook

Further Reading:

Ebersbach, A., Glaser, M., & Heigl, R. (2005). Wiki: Web collaboration. New York: Spring.

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