Media Education/Literacy

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Comment by Ryan Goble on November 5, 2009 at 1:28pm

If you're not in the adolescent lit group and you do work with YA lit you may want to check out the incredible "Behind the YA Lit" article from the New Yorker I posted in that group today. Totally fascinating stuff!

Put On Your Traveling Pants!

Comment by Stephanie Young on October 21, 2009 at 10:58am

A great cohort member of mine has informed me of a way to use Wii and dry erase markers like a smartboard. WiiTeachers is a site that offers information you need to create an interactive whiteboard out of a Wii Remote and an inexpensive pen you can either buy or build yourself.
Check it out at www.wiiteachers.com
It can save you thousands of dollars!

Comment by Ryan Goble on September 16, 2009 at 9:56am

Follow up on yesterday's Mr. Duey post - Mr. Duey is now in the MC POP mix! If you like his stuff or want to know more about this work send him a shout out via the Ning! Great to have you here Mr. D!

Comment by Ryan Goble on September 11, 2009 at 10:45am

Cool EG!! Wish I were still in NYC to rock it out! Good Luck!

Comment by Eric Goodman on September 11, 2009 at 10:24am

We'll be performing our radical media literacy rock show Thus Spoke The Spectacle tomorrow night (Saturday 9/12) at 7 PM in NYC at Fordham University's Lincoln Center campus.

If you're around NYC and would like to attend, please RSVP to goodman@thespectacle.net and we'll put you on the guest list to get in free.

See more details on our Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Thus-Spoke-The-Spectacle/111576928892

and please pass the word along to anyone you think may be interested. Hope to see you there.

Eric Goodman

Comment by James Valastro on September 11, 2009 at 9:51am

This is a media literacy approach to health education... through digital media making and performance art. The top link is a short video of how we made the film. The second link is the complete film with added scenes.

http://www.vimeo.com/5557760

This is a short video of the "Making Of" a video we made with 10th grade students. Acting, content research, special effects, props, production tech and many other talents were needed to make our film.

We filmed the movie in a day and a half. Later we filmed with 6th grade students to add additional content to the story. The music used was made by a friend of a friend who makes "film score" music as a hobby. Explosions and sound FX are free and almost free from web sources. Costumes, makeup, light sabers, were provide by all of the participants.


The 18 min film-
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7622290229798187819#

Comment by Ryan Goble on September 3, 2009 at 3:07pm

Hey folks,

If you haven't joined the fledgling "Gaming Group" you might want to check it out. Today there was an, I think, "essential," article about Quest To Learn - a new video game based school in NYC. Frank Baker hipped me to the article.

Note: It is from the British version of The Economist so you'll read about "maths" and other such linguistic curiosities :)

An excerpt...

Periods of maths, science, history and so on are no more. Quest to Learn’s school day will, rather, be divided into four 90-minute blocks devoted to the study of “domains”. Such domains include Codeworlds (a combination of mathematics and English), Being, Space and Place (English and social studies), The Way Things Work (maths and science) and Sports for the Mind (game design and digital literacy). Each domain concludes with a two-week examination called a “Boss Level”—a common phrase in video-game parlance.

In one of the units of Being, Space and Place, for example, pupils take on the role of an ancient Spartan who has to assess Athenian strengths and recommend a course of action. In doing so, they learn bits of history, geography and public policy. In a unit of The Way Things Work, they try to inhabit the minds of scientists devising a pathway for a beam of light to reach a target. This lesson touches on maths, optics—and, the organisers hope, creative thinking and teamwork. Another Way-Things-Work unit asks pupils to imagine they are pyramid-builders in ancient Egypt. This means learning about maths and engineering, and something about the country’s religion and geography.

Full post here - I would love to hear what folks think about this school concept.

BTW - For the record - I'm awful at video games - even Pac-Man.

Comment by Ryan Goble on September 2, 2009 at 4:33pm

Yeah, I'm back commenting again. A lot of you are probably already members of the "Making Shakespeare Pop!" group - if you dig the Bard and you're interested in his relation to popular and contemporary culture you might consider joining that group.

Today I did a pretty cool post with the front page of yesterday's Chicago Tribune. The headline was about our our brilliant and extremely literate ex-governor here in Illinois Rod Blagojevich. Not only does the man have cool hair, but he has a Shakespearian vision of himself.

In the post you'll find a bundle of Shakespeare allusions plus info on how to get jpegs of newspaper front pages.

Check it out, comment, join - at the very least this post will give you (esp. if you follow politics or teach English) a good laugh.

Full post here

Comment by Ryan Goble on August 25, 2009 at 4:52pm

If you're not in the graphic novels and comics group you might want to check out this post with a link to a comic on Multiple Intelligences.

Comment by Ryan Goble on July 26, 2009 at 11:58am

From an advertising POV you might get a kick out of the ads I posted in the math and science groups here. RRG:)

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