| WEEK # | TOPICS | LECTURE NOTES |
|---|---|---|
| 1-2 | Introduction to new media literacies Where is media literacy headed? What's at stake? | Lecture 1 (PDF) Lecture 2 (PDF) Lecture 3 (PDF) |
| 3 | Origins of literacy in the west Where does literacy come from? Where is it found? | Lecture 4 (PDF) Lecture 5 (PDF) |
| 4 | Literacy and the media How is literacy portrayed in media and schools? What is the "literacy myth"? | Lecture 6 (PDF) Lecture 7 (PDF) |
| 5 | Learning week Forums; Photoshop and image editing | Lecture 8 (PDF) Lecture 9 (PDF) |
| 6 | New literacies and new media, part 1 What are the new literacy studies? What do they have to do with media? | Lecture 10 (PDF) Lecture 11 (PDF) |
| 7 | New literacies and new media, part 2 | |
| 8 | Multimodality What counts as a text in the new media literacies? | Lecture 14 (PDF) Questions (PDF) |
| 9 | Learning week Animation; Podcasting | Lecture 15 (PDF) Lecture 16 (PDF) |
| 10 | Learning week | |
| 11 | Situated learning Wiki; Where does learning happen? | Lecture 18 (PDF) Lecture 19 (PDF) |
| 12 | Embodied cognition How do we learn, know, interpret and produce these new media? | Lecture 21 (PDF) |
| 13 | Multiliteracies What do we propose for the future of media literacies? | Lecture 22 (PDF) |
| 14 | Learning week Games and game design; Video editing | Lecture 24 (PDF) Lecture 25 (PDF) |