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Homophonic Translation, Appositional Writing, And The Monster, Ryan Landry Clark

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation features a combination of critical and creative work

exploring the ethics of appropriative writing and the reparative potential of homophonic translation. The opening essay examines the ethics of appropriation- based poetry and introduces the concept of what I call "appositional writing," a term to describe ethically-minded works of poetry that make use of appropriative writing methods. The next three parts of this dissertation are each appositional writing projects that make use of homophonic translation as the primary method of composition. "Arizona State Bill 1070: An Act" is a homophonic translation of the anti-immigration bill of the same name. …

Speculative Design And Curriculum Development: Using Worldbuilding To Imagine A New Major In A Post-Course Era, Holly Willis, Steve Anderson

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Randy Bass, Executive Director of Georgetown’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship, recently made the provocative claim that we inhabit a “post-course era.” Building on the findings of the National Survey of Student Engagement that show that the places in which undergraduate students demonstrate the highest degree of engagement is in areas outside the traditional curriculum and its courses, Bass suggests that we not merely try to enrich the formal curriculum, but that we also consider supporting and augmenting activities in the “extra” curriculum. We can thereby create opportunities for learning within informal as well as formal settings. …

Expanding Learning Opportunities With Transmedia Practices: Inanimate Alice As An Exemplar, Laura Fleming

Journal of Media Literacy Education

The proliferation of digital and networking technologies enables us to rethink, restructure, and redefine teaching and learning. Transmedia storytelling takes advantage of the rapid convergence of media and allows teachers and learners to participate in rich virtual (and physical) environments that have been shown to foster students’ real emotional engagement with the process of learning. Transmedia learning applies storytelling techniques across multiple platforms to create immersive educational experiences that enable manifold entry and exit points for learning and teaching. By utilizing constructivist and connectivist precepts in the application of these techniques, we can create pedagogies that are transformative on many …

Transmedia Play: Literacy Across Media, Meryl Alper, Rebecca Herr-Stephenson

Journal of Media Literacy Education

Transmedia play is a new way to understand how children develop critical media literacy and new media literacies through their interactions with contemporary media that links stories and structures across platforms. This essay highlights five characteristics of transmedia play that make it particularly useful for learning: resourcefulness, sociality, mobility, accessibility, and replayability, and explains how each characteristic relates to digital and media literacy education.

Guest Editor’S Introduction, Erin Reilly

Journal of Media Literacy Education

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Approaches To Learning With Media And Media Literacy Education – Trends And Current Situation In Germany, Gerhard Tulodziecki, Silke Grafe

Journal of Media Literacy Education

German approaches to media literacy education are concerned with the questions, how the variety of media can be used in a meaningful way for learning and teaching and what educational tasks result from the extensive use of media. Considering these questions there are various conceptual ideas, research and development projects as well as implementations into practice in the field of education and teacher training. The development and the current situation of approaches to media literacy education in Germany are described and discussed in the article. Thereby, the focus is on media literacy education in schools.

What A Difference Ten Years Can Make: Research Possibilities For The Future Of Media Literacy Education, Renee Hobbs

Journal of Media Literacy Education

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Media Literacy And Health Promotion For Adolescents, Lynda Bergsma

Journal of Media Literacy Education

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Media Literacy, Congratulations! Now, The Next Step, Jordi Torrent

Journal of Media Literacy Education

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Media Literacy Education: Harnessing The Technological Imaginary, Katherine G. Fry

Journal of Media Literacy Education

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Ask, Don’T Tell: Pedagogy For Media Literacy Education In The Next Decade, Faith Rogow

Journal of Media Literacy Education

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Media Literacy Education: On The Move, Margaret Carmody Hagood

Journal of Media Literacy Education

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The Coming Of Age Of Media Literacy, Vanessa Domine

Journal of Media Literacy Education

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Participatory Learning Environments And Collective Meaning Making Practice, Erin Reilly

Journal of Media Literacy Education

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New Civic Voices & The Emerging Media Literacy Landscape, Paul Mihailidis

Journal of Media Literacy Education

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10 Years Of Media Literacy Education In K-12 Schools, Rhys Daunic

Journal of Media Literacy Education

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Editor’S Introduction, Amy Petersen Jensen

Journal of Media Literacy Education

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Using Collaborative Writing Tools For Literary Analysis: Twitter, Fan Fiction And The Crucible In The Secondary English Classroom, Jenna Mcwilliams, Daniel T. Hickey, Mary Beth Hines, Jennifer M. Conner, Stephen C. Bishop

Journal of Media Literacy Education

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School-Based Smoking Prevention With Media Literacy: A Pilot Study, Melinda C. Bier, Spring J. Schmidt, David Shields, Lara Zwarun, Stephen Sherblom, Brian Primack, Cynthia Pulley, Billy Rucker

Journal of Media Literacy Education

School-based tobacco prevention programs have had limited success reducing smoking rates in the long term. Media literacy programs offer an innovative vehicle for delivery of potentially more efficacious anti-tobacco education. However, these programs have been neither widely implemented nor well evaluated. We conducted a pre-post evaluation of a cross-disciplinary tobacco media literacy program. The sample consisted of 204 students across six schools. Results indicated that students’ smoking-specific media literacy and general media literacy measures increased significantly over the course of the intervention.

“Sounds Great, But I Don’T Have Time!” Helping Teachers Meet Their Goals And Needs, Cynthia Scheibe

Journal of Media Literacy Education

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Ple-Centered Education: The Next Boundary. Perceptions And Realities Behind Students Personal Learning Environments, Paz Prendes, Linda Castañeda

Journal of Educational Leadership in Action

In this paper the authors discuss the results and implications of research regarding the building and perception of Personal Learning Environments (PLEs) that they developed in the last four years. In addition, the authors discuss the next step of this research; the public funding project CAPPLE, on which they are currently working.

Understanding The Language Of The Occupy Movement: A Cognitive Linguistic Analysis, Theresa Catalano, John W. Creswell

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

In the expanding area of narrative inquiry, researchers often battle with the decision of how to analyze/interpret data. The aim of this article is to propose the use of cognitive linguistics as a tool in narrative analysis using as a case illustration interviews conducted in October/November 2011 with participants in the Occupy movement (Occupy). Results expose important metaphors/metonymies that reveal much about the perception of the movement by its inceptors. Not only did the analysis present the movement as a war and a force against government corporations, oppression, and inequality, but it was also seen as a strong structure and …

The Adoption Of Open Educational Resources By One Community College Math Department, John Hilton Iii, Donna Gaudet, Phil Clark, Jared Robinson, David Wiley

Faculty Publications

The high cost of textbooks is of concern not only to college students but also to society as a whole. Open textbooks promise the same educational benefits as traditional textbooks; however, their efficacy remains largely untested. We report on one community college’s adoption of a collection of open resources across five different mathematics classes. During the 2012 fall semester, 2,043 students in five different courses used these open access resources. We present a comparison between the previous two years in terms of the number of students who withdrew from the courses and the number that completed the courses with a …

Peningkatan Kompetensi Menulis Puisi Siswa Sma Dengan Strategi Ekonek, Teguh Pramono, Sumadi Sumadi, Ah. Rofi'uddin

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

Students’ writing competence at State Senior High School Pagak I in composing poetry is still low due to difficulties in brainstorming ideas and using poetic devices. Therefore, this classroom action research was conducted to develop students’ writing competence in composing poetry through the use of the Ekonek strategy (exploration, construction, elaboration, and confirmation), focusing on (1) idea extraction, (2) idea arrangement, and (3) imagery development, diction, theme and meaning, figures of speech, rhyme and rhythm, and typography. The subjects of this research were 20 students, consisting of three boys and 17 girls. The results show an increase in students’ competence, …

One College's Use Of An Open Psychology Textbook, John Hilton Iii

Faculty Publications

The high cost of textbooks is of concern not only to college students but also to society as a whole. Open textbooks promise the same educational benefits as traditional textbooks; however, their efficacy remains largely untested. We report on one community college's adoption of a free online psychology textbook. During the fall semester, 2011, 690 students used this book. Compared to students using a traditional text in the spring of 2011, students who used the free online textbook scored higher on departmental final exams, had higher GPAs in the class and higher retention rates.

Extracurricular Librarians, Lily Todorinova, Brittany Rhea Deputy

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Authentic Assessment In The Library Classroom: Transforming Activities Into Assessment, Camilla B. Baker

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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From The Dinosaur Age To The Digital Age: Information Literacy In A Wacky Web 2.0 World, Phyllis R. Snipes

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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“One Shots” Or “For-Credit” Teaching Information Lliteracy, Communication Is Key, Kiersten Cox, Vicki L. Gregory

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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Bridging The Gap: Collaborative Teaching Of An Emerging Genre To Empower Students With Information Literacy Skills, Hazel Mcclure, Christopher Toth

Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy

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