Featured Blog Posts (11)

Interested in using Google Earth and Google Maps with your students? Check out this site that my CSU colleagues and I created based on our work with pre-service teachers during the 2011-2012 academic year: https://sites.google.com/site/birdseyedetectives/home. With the assistance of a gift from Google, we were able to provide workshops for students and then hold a technology showcase at Sonoma State, San…

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I have had a number of colleagues suggest that I share my Ed tech 556 syllabus for an MA graduate program (which mainly enrolls in-service teachers) that focuses on how technology and learning are situated:…

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Kids today are born with a mouse in their hand, right? They navigate websites intuitively, clicking their way around the Internet with their eyes closed. Their teachers are stuck in the binder-paper-and-#2-pencil routine, while the students go home to blogs, wikis and websites. Our students are the digital natives, while we are the immigrants, relying on pre-teens to show us how to insert a picture into a document...… Continue

"This is pretty cool. I can’t say that I have done this before. Pretty interesting!"…

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Here is a project I did with my sophomores after reading Lord of the Flies. If anyone wants the plans, I have them. Look at "Murder on Island Rd" and "Help is on the Way"

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I have been talking lately with teachers who usually have

two questions:

1. Where do I start with all this new media stuff?
2. Once I start, how do I keep up?

Where…

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Henry Jenkins, the Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at USC, asked me and three other contributors (Erin B. Reilly, Maryanne Berry, and Phil Halpern) to Teaching Tech-Savvy Kids to give insight into new media and learning and also expand on some of the issues raised in the book. Check out his blog post: part one and… Continue

My students and I discussed throughout this past spring semester how there seems to be this misconception that learning to use (and using) new media should afford a frustration-free and anger-free experience. Somehow the newness of technology and its user-friendly characteristics are supposed to make the learning process easier. Yet, for me, a meaningful aspect of making a VoiceThread or a Prezi…

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I Skyped with Howard Rheingold last month and he posted our conversation on the DML Central blog where he is an ongoing contributor. Check out the post: It's the Learning, Not the Technology. You will notice some familiar faces on the DML Central blog including… Continue

I found a blog post by Susan Carter Morgan which included MIT's Henry Jenkins's video about New Media Literacies. See the blog here.





Love this:

New Media Literacies: "Becoming part of the participatory culture….Skills that connect people together with something larger than the individual levels…."



The logo for Project New Media Skills is "create,… Continue