• 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: 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 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

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

• 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

Oraganizations that promote technology use 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