New Media Literacies Community Site
Materials from Learning Library, Teachers' Strategy Guides & Ethics Casebook
Project New Media Literacies has developed this community site to share learning materials with interested educators and learners. The materials provided here are in development, and represent our work within Project New Media Literacies:
The Learning Library is an aggregator of media from the web, such as a video, image or audio file, but it is also a publishing tool that provides participants with opportunities to integrate personal-life experiences with a learning concept. The Learning Library is designed to be a distributed application to embed into any social media platform.
The current goals of the Learning Library are to:
Reading in a Participatory Culture
Our first Teachers' Strategy Guide: Reading in a Participatory Culture, offers strategies for integrating the tools, approaches, and methods of Comparative Media Studies into the English and Language Arts classroom. The guide provides a set of lesson plans using Herman Melville's Moby-Dick as the sample text and a theater adaptation by Ricardo Pitts-Wiley entitled Moby-Dick: Then and Now as an example of a contemporary adaptation. The guide is intended to demonstrate techniques which could be applied to the study of authorship in relation to a range of other literary works, pushing us to reflect more deeply on how authors build upon the materials of their culture and in turn inspire others who follow to see the world in new ways.
Mapping in a Participatory Culture
Check out our tumblr page: ProjectNML.tumblr.comThe learning materials in this section have been produced through a collaboration between Project New Media Literacies and the GoodPlay project. We are creating a set of curricular materials designed to help students sort through ethical dilemmas they face as communicators and to give them the tools to work through the consequences of their own choices.
Find out more about this collaboration
Featured Digital Media Ethics activities
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