Media Education/Literacy

"The Worst Song I Ever Loved" is a challenge which involves listening to pop music, reading music journalism, and formulating your own critical and personal response to a particular tune from your past or present.

I published a short writeup over at the Music discussion group and there's a full exploration of this activity, with "how-to" and related resour...

Matt - can you post that up in the discussion section so we don't lose your worst / best song ever?

Hi all, just to say the State Library of Queensland in Australia has just launched a free online comic maker which I've blogged about here at MCPOP - http://mcpopmb.ning.com/profiles/blogs/fun-palaces-free-online-comi...

It's part of a bigger festival of arts and sciences which includes simultaneous events embracing performance, play, physical and digital events - running in public libraries across London - http://matthewfinch.me/2015/09/11/all-your-base-are-belong-to-us-la...

The comic maker is designed to take the fear out of making comics and focus more on sequential storytelling than being brilliant and drawing. A useful, gentle activity for getting people to work on visual-verbal communication. Worth checking out!