Renee Hobbs, Viewing and Representing: Media Literacy in Texas critically analyzing media representations

Marjorie Heins and Christina Cho, Media Literacy: An Alternative to Censorship

Hobbs & Frost (1999; 2003). Study on the effects of media instruction on reading/writing test scores
interact.uoregon.edu
mpls.k12.mn.us

Visual literacy activities

International Visual Literacy Association

Visual Literacy resource links

Visual Arts Topics Index

Visual Resource Library

Marist College - Visual Literacy Links

University of Nebraska, Lincoln - Visual Literacy Collaboration

Visual Literacy and the Net

Digital Images and the 'New' Visual Literacy

Open Directory Project - Visual Literacy

Visual Literacy Exercises

Visual Literacy in the Age of Digital Photographic Reproduction

2Learn Teacher Tools: Visual Literacy

University of Iowa Communication Studies Resources: Visual Communication

Course Projects and Issues

Visual Arts Young Viewers Index

Visual Studies

Resources for teaching with photography

Education Video Center

The Alliance for Community Media site

For other student documentary-production sites:
Children’s Media Project
Global Action Project
Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools
Media Alliance
Bay Area Video Coalition
Media Arts Center, Seattle
Asian Media Access, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, Minnesota
Multimedia Library: hundreds of QuickTime productions that illustrate documentary techniques
Intime teacher Video: students create an iMovie documentary on environmental health
Intime teacher Video: students create a CD-ROM documentary about Manson, Iowa based on photos, interviews
Street Level Youth Video
PBS: Listen-Up Youth Media Network
Document Durham: Neighborhoods Projects
The Library of Congress: The American Memory digital collection
Pics for Learning: lots of digital images
Hanover 2000 Worlds Fair: examples of 360 degree QT shots of exhibition buildings
Video: students using digital photos to create a montage of their school
Literacy through Photography
PBS P.O.V. documentary, Borders, video diaries of adolescents living on the Mexican border
digital cameras and photography as art
TechTalk: KTCA program: video on using digital cameras
Photo-Seminars.com
Curtin’s Short Courses in Digital Photography
Kodak online photographic tutorials
Kodak online guide to better pictures
BetterPhoto.com
New York Institute of Photography
Photography Basics
Digital Image Basics
The Art of Photography
Digital Photography Tips
The rules of composition
The American Museum of Photography

Media Education Organizations

Alliance for a Media Literate America

Action Coalition for Media Education

Center for Media Literacy

Media Literacy Clearinghouse

Media Literacy Online Project

National Telemedia Council

The New Mexico Media Literacy Project

Project Look Sharp

The New Mexico Media Literacy Project

Media Education Organization: European organization

Media Literacy Review, University of Oregon: lots of resources

The Media Literacy Clearinghouse: lots of resources

The National Telemedia Council: America’s oldest media literacy organization

Alliance for Media Literate America: active media education organization (also deals with critical pedagogy perspectives).

Columbia Journalism Review: critical analysis of journalism

Media Awareness

Media Education (Britain)

Alliance for Media Literate America

MediaChannel

NYTimes media literacy lessons

Ontario Media Literacy

U Conn Media Literacy links

Popular Culture sites

Popular Culture: Resources for Critical Analysis

Sarah Zupko’s Cultural Studies Center: Popcultures.com

Popular Culture Magazine

Cultural Analysis: An Interdisciplinary Forum on Folklore and Popular Culture

Images: a journal of film and popular culture

Manchester Institute for Popular Culture

University of Iowa Department of Communications Studies: Popular Culture

Popular culture library: Bowling Green University

Russell Nye Popular Culture Collection: Michigan State University Library: Popular Culture Vertical File (PCVF)

Critical pedagogy and media studies

Critical Pedagogy on the Web

Definitions of Critical Media Literacy

Critical Pedagogy: Who has power and why?

Douglas Kellner, Media Literacies and Critical Pedagogy in a Multicultural Society

Martin Ryder: critical theorists: lots of links

Cultural Studies database

Guerrilla Media: media projects based on social justice

Media Reform: critical analysis of issues of media ownership

Action Coalition for Media Education: lots of useful resources

The Center for Public Integrity: watchdog organization on the media

FAIR: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting

Freedom Forum: Focus on free speech/1st Amendment rights

The Independent Media Center

The Media Channel

k.i.s.s. of the panopticon (Keep it simple stupid): cultural studies/critical theory perspectives on the media

The Media Monopoly Index

21st Century Literacies

The Learning for the 21st Century Report

Media Literacy as Literacy Education (Winston Emery and Lee Rother, Screen Education)

David Jonassen “mindtools”

The Media Workshop

The Integration of Technology Across the Middle School Curriculum

Lemke, J. L. (in press). Travels in hypermodality. Visual Communication.

Nancy Patterson’s sites with student work using Storyspace™ a hypertext authoring tool
The America Web
Nancy Patterson's classroom
ACE online

Storyspace™ publisher, Eastgate Software

For examples of hypertext fiction, see the Reading Room at Eastgate

Robert Coover’s hypertext fiction

DUSTY—“Digital Underground Storytelling for Youth,” adolescents create and display multimedia digital stories consisting of a narrative

Zines:
The Book of Zines
The Etext Archives
Google Directory: E-zines

Blogging sites
bogdex.net
blogger.com
weblogs.com
livejournal.com
globeofblogs.com

Using blogs to Teach Writing

Educational Bloggers Network

Scott Hatch’s webquest on using blogging to teach writing

Using blogs in education

Joan Cone , High School English, El Cerrito, CA, dealing with the challenge of student achievement in her detracked AP English class

Sample chapter on evaluation and assessment: Kathleen Strickland, James Strickland, Engaged in Learning Teaching English, 6-12 , Boynton/Cook

Encouraging Student Teachers to Document Reflective Practice

Documenting student learning in outcomes-based education School of Information Technology and Communications Design, CSU Monterey Bay

Assessing Student Learning Outcomes in Integrative Studies

Video/computer games

Google: links to video game sites

Clips/trailers of video games

Game Nation television program: reviews/discussions

Yahoo: free games

Computer Games: online games

Apple: game trailers/clips

Electronic Arts: major games producer

The Sims

SONY Playstation

Games Domain

Computer Simulation games

Game Culture: articles on cultural aspects of games

Computer Games Magazine

GamesStudies: journal of research on games

Center for Computer Game Research, University of Copenhagen

Digital Games Research Association

Digital Games Research Conference, 2003

Game Culture and Technology Lab, University of California, Irvine

Discussion of a documentary on video games

New Media Studies

Institute for New Media Studies, University of Minnesota

Center for Cyberculture Studies

New Media Studies

Journal of New Media & Culture

Center for History and the New Media, George Mason University

Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, Columbia University

The New Literacies Archive: Readingonline.org

Students Find their Voices through Multimedia: uses of multimedia to express ideas

Yahooligans: Evaluating Websites as accessible, accurate, appropriate, and appealing

Evaluating websites: Cornell University

NeTutor Tutorial: Evaluating Websites

Resources for evaluating websites, Virginia Tech University Library

Citing Websites

Critical Analysis of a Website

Critical Analysis of Three Websites

David Thornberg, Building Critical Thinking Skills for Online Resea

Web-based Studies/Critical Analysis of the Web

Grokker uses existing search engines

Web Evaluation for Intermediate Grades

Web Evaluation for Secondary Grades

Checklist for an Informational Web Page

Evaluation Criteria: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Evaluating Web Resources by Jan Alexander and Marsha Ann Tat

Web Page Evaluation Worksheet

Critical Evaluation Survey: Middle School Level

Web page evaluation

Evaluating Web Sites

Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply & Questions to Ask

Evaluating web pages

The Good, The Bad &The Ugly

Centers/Organizations on the Internet

The Internet Studies Center, University of Minnesota

Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, VPI

Center for Online Addiction

The Internet and Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology

Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, University of Washington

Association of Internet Researchers

Magazines/Journals about the Internet

Journal of Online Behavior

SIMILE: Students in Media & Information Literacies

Wired Magazine

Multimedia and Internet@Schools

Internet Magazine (UK)

.Net (UK)

ComputerWorld

Byte

Internet World

Digital Video Magazine

PCWorld

Using Technology Tools

Actden site: using technology tools

Creating Web pages:
writingproject.org
teachers.net
teacherweb.com

Web Design for the Mass Media (online book)

Online Peer-Learning Environments, Reading Online

E-portfolios

4teachers site

TrackStar Track maker: organize your searches of URL’s

Webteacher: training modules

GLEF: technology-integration module

ALPS: resources, scaffolds, and contexts for building unit plans

Apple Learning Exchange

University of Illinois “inquiry” site

Allen Webb-Carey’s site: tools relevant for English teachers

Western Michigan University: Teaching English with Technology site

George Landow, Hypertext site

Victorian Web Site

postcolonial literature

Janet Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck (MIT Press, 1998)

David Rose and Anne Meyer, Teaching Every Student in the Digital Age: Universal Design for Learning, (ASCD, 2002)

VideoPaper Builder 2™

Inspiration™
inspiration.com
tomsynder.com

Noodletools™
noodletools.com

Internet 101

Educational Uses of the Internet

Global School Network

Teaching and the Internet

Weaving the Web into K-12 Education

The World Wide Web Consortium

Educause Review current developments in higher education uses of information technology

Valorie Stokes, Exploring Literacy in Cyberspace: Learning to critically analyze websites

Tech Talk: Program produced by Digital Media Center, University of Minnesota (click on “episodes”)

Teacher Wisdom Stories: Cautions and Recommendations for Using Computer-related Technologies for Literacy Instruction (from Readingonline)

Hypertext on the Big Screen

Course on hypertext and literature

Inquiry unit on the Inquiry Web Site: How does hypertext change literacy practices?

Course on Reading and Writing in a Digital Age focusing on Hypertext

University of Iowa Communication Studies: lots of links on hypertext theory

Digital Narrative, University of Maryland

Center for Digital Storytelling

Hyperhorizons, Duke University site on hypertext fiction

Adaptations of Print to Hypertext

Introduction to the Visual Arts, Laura Ruby, University of Hawaii

Computer-Mediated Learning

English Through the Internet

Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

A technology-infused English curriculum
Coogan, P. (2000). International Electronic Journal For Leadership in Learning, 4(13)

Project-braced Learning: GLEF: The George Lucas Educational Foundation

Ted Nellen’s Cyber English

Technology integration: GLEF: The George Lucas Educational Foundation

Hall Davidson, Meaningful Digital Video for Every Classroom

Hypertext fiction
Stuart Molthrop, Hegirscope
Stephanie Strickland, The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot
Deena Larson, Stained Word Window
Webquest: Hypertext fiction

Organizations that Promote Technology Uses in Schools

Belvedere

Global School Net

KidLink

Georgia Tech

KIE

Computer @ Learning Partner

EduTech

CaMILE

CoVis

ICLS

INSYS

Webquest collections (mostly English)
SESD webquest
Grades 9-12 English/Language Arts
James Rainville's ESL Page, Webquests for learning, the links page
Language Arts Web Quests

Webquests: literature
Poetry, Amanda Bekkum and Michelle Schneekloth
Beth O’Hara, To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
The Crucible
Of Mice and Men
The Scarlet Letter
Julius Caesar
Romeo and Juliet
The Bluest Eye
The House on Mango Street
Holes

Media literary webquests

Advertising
Cyberagenda Advertising
Advertisers: Interpreterse of out drems?
Advertising in Schools
Analyzing Advertising

Radio production

WebQuest Design Process

Creating webquests:
WebQuest Training Materials
Adapting and Enhancing Existing WebQuests
Concept to Classroom
Creating a WebQuest
Using a WebQuest in your Classroom
The WebQuest Design Process
ozline.com: WebQuests &more
ozline.com: The WebQuests Design Process

Video-streaming software

Realplayer

Quicktime Player

Windows Media Player

On-line Video Clips

Atom Films

On-line documentaries: some free

Hollywood movie trailers/shorts
Apple - Movie Trailers
Hollywood.com
Movies.com
IFilm.com
RottenTomatoes.com
CountingDown.com
Lycos Video

On-line short films (some explicit material in some sites)
Microcinema International
internet film community
Undergroundfilm.org
http://movies.yahoo.com/shorts/
FilmWatcher.com
Hypnotic
http://www.realgoodmovies.com/index_mov.html
Shockwave.com

Pixar Films: Animation

Move Flix: free movies

BreakTV: clips from TV shows

Video clips

Clips from ABC News

50 years of Coke advertisements

Streaming video from Eastview High School: multimedia classes

Video Clips of teachers teaching:
technology
language arts (some overlap with technology)

The PBS program, The Power of Stills

Film Techniques

Bordwell and Thompson’s (2004) Film Art, An Introduction (7th ed.)—for a sample chapter on Film Production, Distribution, and Exhibition

Louise Giannetti (2002), Understanding Movies, (Prentice Hall, 9th ed.)

James Monaco (2000), How to View a Film, (Oxford University Press, 3rd ed.)

British Film Institute. (2002). Introduction to film language. [CD Rom]. London: British Film Institute.

Glossaries of film terms
actf.com
A Glossary of Film Terms
Useful Vocabulary for Film Studies
All Movie Guide
Film terms

Geocities film site: excellent links to different aspects of film/production

Thinkquest: excellent site for introduction to film production

Cyber Film School

BBC: Video production skills

Director in the Classroom: lots of links to video production resources

lots of links to film technique resources

English Online: Making Movies

Examples of use of color and light

Examples of hard and soft lighting

Abie Lane Benítez-Quinones Luz: Poetry and the Physics of Light Yale/New Haven

Different editing techniques

Tom Barrance, Media Education Wales: Making your film make sense: uses of editing

Editing using IMovie™

Daniel Anderson: Integrating digital stills into writing about “The Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”

Heather Ross: Using IMovie productions in writing classes

Apple Learning Interchange: ILife productions (on-line examples of student productions)

Apple Learning Interchange: Videography in the Classroom

PBS Listen Up! Youth video production site

Pier Marton, Washington University,Video Production

Education Video Center: clips of ten student produced videos

Click here for examples of different uses of sound

Film Sound Theory

Film Sound Design

Film Sound History

Film Sound Glossary

Lots of links on film sound

Bela Balazs: Theory of the Film: Sound

Webquest: analysis of soundtrack for 1968 Romeo and Julie

Filmmaking 101: Writing a Script

Published screenplays of current films

Interactive Simulation: creating a script

Scriptware: scriptwriting software: free demo

Sriptwriting shareware, ScreenForge

Sriptwriting shareware, ScreenPro 97 2.0a

Drew’s Script-o-rama

Atomic Learning’s StoryBoard Pro™

Directors Board: free storyboard software

Ian Pegler: free storyboard/scriptwriting software

Main Studios: free storyboard software

Storyboarding software, freeware, Version 2, Springboard

Creating Storyboards

Laurie Brooker: How to Draw Storyboards

Acting with a Pencil: Storyboarding Your Movie

On-line samples of storyboards:
Ted B Studio
Child: a film based on a children’s book
Storyboards Next To Film
Gerald Forton storyboad

Webquest: Film Production: deals with all aspects of making a film

View the process of making a student film, Fat Man and Little Boys

Links related to film technique:
The Multimedia Project: Project-Based Learning with Multimedia
Imperica
Eejit's Film Lingo
MediaEd.org.uk

Annenberg: How Are Films Made?

CineMedia: links to over 16,000 film sites

Nathan Snanza’s film project

Sofia: Study of Film as Internet Application

Film Review Sites

Rottentomatoes

Movie Review Query Engine

Internet Movie Date Base

Check the Grid

All Watchers

MetaCritic

Critics.com: compiles/combines ratings of 15 critics

Roger Ebert

The”Greatest Films” lists

Moviefone

Hollywood.com: A major site with a lot of trailers, including full-screen trailers

Open Directory Project: thousand of links on film:

Facets: DVD/video catalogue

DVD Reviews
dvdreview.com
dvdcorner.net

Film Study Resources

Australian Film Institute

American Film Institute

The British Film Institute

The Greatest Films

Film-Media-Resources

The Cinema Collection: hundreds of links to different aspects of film study

Study of Film as Internet Application (SOFIA)

Film.com

Filmsite

Film and television studies

The film lover's 100

Indie Film Guide

CHUM: Bravo!'s Scanning The Movies Study Guides

Robert E. Yahnke: Summaries/resources for teaching specific films

Metro Magazine: study guides to Australian films

Teach with Movies: ways of integrating movies into the curriculum

Jo Flack, Teaching Film as Text

Ontario Media Literacy: Teaching specific films

University of Iowa Communication Studies: links on film studies

Voices of the Shuttle: film studies links

National Film Board of Canada

Director in the Classroom: links to production sites/resources

On-line digital video sites

Ian Douglas, Film and Meaning: on-line book

A secondary teachers' guide to using film and television

Film Journals/Magazines

Cinemagazine

Cineaste

Senses of Cinema

Images: Journal of Film and Popular Culture

Film Quarterly

Jump Cut: a Review of Contemporary Cinema

POST SCRIPT: Essays in Film and the Humanities

Screen

Literature Film Quarterly

Sight and Sound

Film Comment

Bright Lights Film Journal

Cinema Journal

Kinema

Scope: An On-line Journal of Film Studies

Wide Angle

Film & History

Cinema Scope

Film International

The Film Journal

Flicker

Framework

Kinoeye: New Perspectives on European Film

Offscreen

Reverse Shot Online

Talking Pictures

Essential Cinema: Journal of Independent Film

Millennium Film Journal

MovieMaker Magazine

Canadian Journal of Film Studies

Fade In Magazine

Film/Television History

National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television

Tim Dirks: Film History: organized by each year since 1902

Robert E. Yahnke, Cinema History: one chapter for each decade

Paul Burns: The Complete History of the Discover of Cinematography

Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture

The History Channel: summary of film history, with links to directors

Orson Welles

Television History sites

Television History Archive, Center for Study of Popular Television, Syracuse University

Television History

The History of Television

Museum of Television and Radio

The Museum of Television, Toronto

Hitchcock: British Film Institute

Museum of the Moving Image

Animation

Shortbuzz, short films on line

Eveo, a streamed video site

Atom films, streamed short films and animation
AtomFilms.com
BijouFlix-bijoucafe.com
film.com
ifilm.net
mdfkr.com
NewVenue.com
thesync.com
dfilm.com
resfest.com
6161.com
conduitfest.com
onedotzero.com
darklight-filmfestival.com
movieweb.com

Stop Motion Animation

How to make a movie with digital stills

Clay Animation Home Page

Clay animation
sfsu.edu
animateclay.com

Hotwired, online animation and tutorial site

Getting started in Animation

3D animation workshop tutorials

3D Studio Max tutorials

Aardman online

Animation World Network

Animation Library: free on-line GIF images

Hanna Barbera cartoons

Top animation films

lots of links to classic animation films

Disney feature animation films
bcdb.com
dir.yahoo.com

Original cels employed in Disney films

Lots of Disney-film links/clip art

The Simpsons

Cartoon Network

Fox network cartoon shows

Kelly Eick, Gender Stereotypes in Children's Television Cartoons (1998)

Jim Rutenberg, New York Times, January 28, 2001: “Violence Finds a Niche in Children’s Cartoons”

Film Adaptations

Case studies of film adaptations

Early film adaptations

The American Short Story series, Part II (videos)

Cable in the Classroom: Shakespeare adaptations

Tanya Gough, 10 Shakespeare DVD’s, Shakespeare Magazine

Mary Ciccone: teaching an on-line "Shakespeare in Film" course through Virtual High School, Shakespeare Magazine

Mr. William Shakespeare (lots of links to Shakespeare sites)

Shakespeare High (on-line discussion, student resources)

Complete works of Shakespeare

Webquest: Macbeth

Bravo Channel: Page to Screen (program features adaptations of specific books)

American Film Institute:
examples of student-produced adaptations of 1984, Lord of the Flies, King Lear, Julius Caesar, and The Crucible—includes storyboards, outlines, video clips, and reflections.

Fiction into Film

MacBeth on Film: British Film Institute

Teach with Movies Lesson Guide: Hamlet

Advertising

American Advertising Museum

Ad Access Project, Duke University

Media, Advertising, and Society, Barbara Breder, University of Iowa

Advertising and the End of the World

“Advertising at the Edge of the Apocalypse” by Sut Jhally

Adbusters magazine

The Advertising Century

Harper’s Weekly: 19th Century Advertising

The Ad*Access Project: 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955

National Museum of American History: advertising archives

The Eisner Museum of Advertising & Design

Archives: top 100 ad campaigns

Examples of early ads:
admuseum.org
mediahistory.umn.edu

Lesson: The Consumer Economy

Media Awareness Network guides: Advertising and consumption

Advertising and consumption

Children and advertising

Semiotic analysis of magazine ads for men’s fragrances by Alexander Clare

PBS: Food Advertising Tricks

Education Media Foundation video with Naomi Klein: No Logo: Brands, Globalization & Resistance

webquest: propoganda techniques

webquest: What is the Truth: propaganda analysis

Adflip: ads from different decades

Dan Chandler ad analysis

The Big Lie: The Truth about Advertising: lots of other components

ad analyses