Lecture Notes

Lecture files.
WEEK #	TOPICS	LECTURE NOTES
1-2	Introduction to new media literacies Where is media literacy headed? What's at stake?	Lecture 1 (PDF) Lecture 2 (PDF) Lecture 3 (PDF)
3	Origins of literacy in the west Where does literacy come from? Where is it found?	Lecture 4 (PDF) Discussion (PDF) Lecture 5 (PDF)
4	Literacy and the media How is literacy portrayed in media and schools? What is the "literacy myth"?	Lecture 6 (PDF) Lecture 7 (PDF)
5	Learning week Forums; Photoshop and image editing	Lecture 8 (PDF) Lecture 9 (PDF)
6	New literacies and new media, part 1 What are the new literacy studies? What do they have to do with media?	Lecture 10 (PDF) Lecture 11 (PDF)
7	New literacies and new media, part 2	Lecture 12 (PDF) In-class activity (PDF) Lecture 13 (PDF) Discussion (PDF)
8	Multimodality What counts as a text in the new media literacies?	Lecture 14 (PDF) Questions (PDF)
9	Learning week Animation; Podcasting	Lecture 15 (PDF) Lesson plan (PDF) (Courtesy of Andres Lombana. Used with permission.) Lecture 16 (PDF) Lesson plan (PDF) (Courtesy of Steve Schultze and Evan Wendel. Used with permission.)
10	Learning week
11	Situated learning Wiki; Where does learning happen?	Lecture 18 (PDF) Lecture 19 (PDF) Lesson plan (PDF) (Courtesy of Laura Boylan. Used with permission.) Slides (PDF) (Courtesy of Laura Boylan. Used with permission.)
12	Embodied cognition How do we learn, know, interpret and produce these new media?	Lecture 21 (PDF)
13	Multiliteracies What do we propose for the future of media literacies?	Lecture 22 (PDF)
14	Learning week Games and game design; Video editing	Lecture 24 (PDF) Lecture 25 (PDF)

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