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Navigating Multimedia – Streaming Video Beyond Youtube: Pop Culture Edition, Julie A. Decesare
Navigating Multimedia – Streaming Video Beyond Youtube: Pop Culture Edition, Julie A. Decesare
Julie A DeCesare
The Internet has quickly become a resource for multimedia and video content, especially in popular culture research. Search engines have tools to help mine for visual content, but finding videos content creates different challenges in comparison to text. This presentation will provide tips on searching for multimedia content, as well as, a showcase of some innovative video collections, initiatives, and resources important to popular culture research.
Improvization And Strategic Risk Taking In Informal Learning With Digital Media Literacy, Renee Hobbs
Improvization And Strategic Risk Taking In Informal Learning With Digital Media Literacy, Renee Hobbs
Renee Hobbs
The city provides a rich array of learning opportunities for young children. However, in many urban schools, often it can be logistically difficult to get young children out of the building. But when elementary children are encouraged to view the city as a classroom and use digital media to explore and represent their neighborhoods, they can be inspired by the unpredictable events of daily life to ask naive, critical and sometimes troubling questions. This paper presents a case study of a teacher in an informal media literacy learning environment who worked with a group of 9-year-olds in Philadelphia. It documents …