YouTube - Lewis Black Demands CNN Remove banner from screen
Why do I keep reading about media and media literacy when it is happening all around me?  Here’s a segment from CNN with Lewis Black in which he complains about the crawl at the bottom of the screen.  It’s distracting, he says, from the people talking.  […]

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Haven’t posted for awhile. I took a vacation last week and mostly just read including Margaret Mackey’s Literacies Across Media. It was a report of her research into how children interact with various media from printed texts to video to computer games. One of her conclusions is that students don’t seem to […]

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LearningTimes Network - “MacArthur Series”
Found this link somewhere in the NMC Campus in Second Life.  Here’s the best argument I’ve heard for media literacy and technology integration:
“The working hypothesis of the effort is that digital media tools have advanced significantly in recent years, enabling new forms of knowledge production, social networking, communication, and play. People […]

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News photography and Photoshop - Reuters Newsblogs
“The rules are – no additions or deletions, no misleading the viewer by manipulation of the tonal and colour balance to disguise elements of an image or to change the context.
Photoshop is a powerful image processing program with many more tools to help photographers produce the best quality image […]

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State Contractor Files Federal Lawsuit Against Me » Maine Web Report
So, I keep thinking that I need to get back to reading about media literacy and working on my bibliography.  Then, I take “just a second” to check my rss feeds on netvibes and some media story captures my attention.  Today, Andy Carvin pointed me […]

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Hermeneutics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hermeneutics may be described as the development and study of theories of the interpretation and understanding of texts, particularly Biblical texts. The concept of “text” is here also extended beyond written documents to any number of objects subject to interpretation. A hermeneutic is defined as a specific system or method […]

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Media Literacy: A Definition… and More
“Media Literacy is a 21st century approach to education. It provides a framework to access, analyze, evaluate and create messages in a variety of forms — from print to video to the Internet. Media literacy builds an understanding of the role of media in society as well as essential skills […]

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