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New Media Literacy Site from MIT - and check out the great Vlog Tutorial!

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The new media literacies web site is working to integrate new media materials into compelling activities for K-12 students for use in or out of school. Vlogs As Citizen Media From Steve Garfield's Flickr Stream. Henry Jenkins is the Team Leader. There are tons of excellent resources here! The series covers the following topics: 1.

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Digital Beginnings: Parents As Scaffolds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

fast forward six years and he is sitting next to me and I'm explaining blogs to him and watching vlogs together. and new technolgies in early literacy development. understanding about techno-literacy practices such as blogging and texting, in. At age six months, he could sit on my lap while I updated web sites. in the practice.

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The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources

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See Dave Winer's comments here, or as someone on the vlog list "Fighting for civilty using rudeness.". Mena got angry at the comments because they were not so civil - particularly those from Ben MetCalfe who Mena called out publically. Warning she says the F-word on the clip.)

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

vlogging, and podcasting). He also identifies the new literacies and skills -- and while he is talking about this in the context of children and education. . - Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge. Circulations - shaping the flow of media (e.g.

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Is it time for a Social Reporter?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While in the early early 1990's I was helping people figure out which dipswitches on their modem to push or write and send email using PINE, this later morphed into helping people learn how to build web pages or develop web literacy skills. Last week or the weekend before I was at a conference, with wireless and live blogging and vlogging.

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