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Lecture Notes

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)