New Media Literacies Projects

The New Media Literacies Project is made by a group of staff members. Their goal is to build upon social skills. They emphasize on the best ways to equip young people with social skills and cultural competencies required to become full participants in an a media landscape and raise public understanding about what it means to be literate according to the New Media Literacies website. They are now looking at the consumer point and producer point.

How to interact with culture and the surroundings of an individual are very important to the staff members. Students must know these media literacy skills to become something in life. It is very hard these days to go on in life without using these media skills: judgement, negotiation, appropriation, play, transmedia navigation,simulation, collective intelligence, performance, distributed cognition, visualization, and multitasking. They are not just skills for the classroom they are skills that let students express creativity. These skills connect people together upon the individual levels.

The New Media Literacies by the NML Staff

I liked the New Media Literacies. I found it helpful and very straight to the point. It flowed very fast through all the information it wanted to point on. It really emphasized on all the things a person needs to know to survive in our society. I think all of the skills mentioned in this video are needed to be effective in the future as a teacher. These skills are used everyday.

To be an effective artist, citizen, and worker, I believe that we will need all of these skills to succeed. Judgement will let us know where our information is coming from. Negotiation is also important for teachers because to learn to become better teacher you are going to have to collaborate with other teachers. Multitasking is a skill I accidentally attempt everyday. I could not imagine how my day would go if I did not multitask. I am constantly doing my blogs and writing papers for other classes and holding my son at the same time. I think in our society, multitasking is very essential because our society is moving so fast, multitasking is the only way to keep up. Navigating the Internet is certainly a new skill for the 21st century. Play would relate to one's surroundings as a form of problem-solving. Performance is the speed or strength at which someone progresses. That is a couple of the media literacies listed in this video. All of these literacies are IMPORTANT.

The Networked Student: by Wendy Drexler

This video was networking in the twenty- first century. Ms. Wendy Drexler's video was also inspiring. The video was helpful and she was very knowledgeable about what she was discussing. Learning has changed compared to ten years ago.

I have a lot of learning to do. I know the basic computer skills but I am not big on technology. I am learning something new everyday in my EDM 310 class. I have no ieda how to use Skype, Delicious, or Wiki. The web has more information than any book could ever have. I do believe this class is preparing me to teach a networked student. As I learn about each one of the topics in my EDM class I will be able to then teach it to my future students.

But as for now, at this time, I do not believe I am ready to teach a networking student. I feel that there is so much to learn about technology. I feel like I am new to all the different types of technology. Don't get me wrong I have learned a lot from my EDM 310 class, but I still have a bunch more to learn. I do like this new style of teaching/learning. It offers so many different opportunities.

Richard Miller: This is How We Dream Parts 1 and 2

Mr. Richard Miller video explained creative writing with visual interpretation. Miller also spoke about how we can now communicate globally. I think that it's so weird that when I post a blog the blog shows up on the web for anyone to see. He first starts out talking about how he grew up working with books. He mentioned that you can buy the virtual version of a book online for a much lower cost for a book that you might never even open.

Before listening to Mr. Richard Miller I had no idea of how are society is learning. We no longer read an write, instead we watch videos and just listen. Instead of taking a trip to the library to look up information we can look it up on the Internet in two seconds. I can honestly say I have only been in the library on campus once. When I write papers or do homework I look up all the information on the computer. I think it is very true, when Mr. Miller states that an article was more likely to be read on the web than in a magazine or book.

I found this video to be inspiring. I also find that our world is becoming technologically based. I think the old way of reading and then writing down notes is eventually going to be dead. We now can listen to information then collaborate with others work's and make new modified works. Multimedia is growing and multimedia writing should become more common among students and teachers.

ipods in Instruction

iPods are becoming more and more popular in the classroom every year. Many students and teachers use them. I didn't know much about ipods until viewing this website and seeing all that it can be used for. I thought ipods were used only for music but they can be used in so many other ways.
In 2004, Duke University gave 1600 incoming freshmen brand new ipods. They did this in regards to their digital initiative. The students had access to many lectures and other helpful things through the ipods. The students could access their school information with their ipods. Many classes are now incorporating ipods in their classrooms. According to Duke University the results of giving ipods to their freshmen has been so great. I agree with this website about the use of ipods in the classroom.

Itunes U.

Honestly, I have never heard of itunes u or itune university until I had to do this assignment. I thought it was so cool. I really didn't know a lot about itunes to begin with but itunes U was very interesting and helpful. Itunes University had so many different categories to click and explore. It has so many cool podcast too. You can listen to different professors all around the world. I just found it so cool how you could pick a chapter then a topic and listen to a professor lecture.
I believe there could be many ways, in which, I could use this site when I begin teaching. When we are discussing a specific topic I can look it up and have things saved and ready to pull up in my classroom. I could also show students different pictures relating to the topic I am teaching. I was really pleased with this site and I think I will use it in my future teaching.

Dr. Christie's Website

I enjoyed Dr. Christie's website. I like her classrooms and workshops. The information on her website is helpful for anyone going into the teaching field. I like the information on the virtual field trips. I have never heard of this or even knew what is was until clicking on it. But after clicking on it, it became very interesting.
Virtual field trips is a way of taking field trips without all the expenses. This way the students can even learn about technology at the same time. Instead of getting out into the "real world" they can use the computer to take a field trip. Good way to save money for low income schools.