EDUCAUSE | media literacy

ELI Podcast: What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies

gbayne — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:19:11 -0600

This 73 minute podcast features the 4th Annual Robert C. Heterick Jr. Lecture, given by Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT. The lecture is entitled, "What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies".

Emblematic of the new participatory cultures and the emerging practices of collective intelligence, Wikipedia has drawn fire from academic institutions and traditional gatekeepers. Using segments from a forthcoming documentary about the Wikipedia movement produced by MIT's Project NML, this session will discuss how educators might use Wikipedia to introduce students to the ways that new forms of cultural production and knowledge sharing are reshaping the research process.

Podcast: The Changing Literacy Landscape: An Interview with Kathleen Tyner

gbayne — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:24:09 -0500

In this 12 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Kathleen Tyner, Assistant Professor of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. She presented a speech at the ELI 2007 Fall Focus Session entitled, "One Click at a Time: How Net Savvy Learners Are Transforming Educational Institutions".

An Interview with Peter Kaufman and Mark Phillipson

mpasiewicz — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:30:03 -0600

In this 23 minute recording, we'll hear Peter Kaufman and Mark Phillipson, both from the Columbia University's Center for New Media Teaching and Learning. Listen in as they cover a range of topics related to the use of digital video in education.

See also:
http://www.cni.org/tfms/2006b.fall/abstracts/PB-teaching-kaufman.html
http://www.columbia.edu/ccnmtl/projects/vital/index.html

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

An Interview with Paul Gandel

mpasiewicz — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:16:37 -0500

The attached 14 minute recording provides coverage of an interview with Syracuse CIO, Paul Gandel. Listen in as Gene Spencer hosts a discussion about strategies for talking with the press, data visualization, scholarly communication and much more.

YouTube in the Classroom

mpasiewicz — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:59:16 -0500

Edutopia, one of my favorite sites, has of article on K-12 interest in using sites like YouTube in the classroom. I thought it might be an interesting crossover article for those of you interested in media litereacy or video in the classroom.

For more information, visit:
http://www.edutopia.org/community/spiralnotebook/?p=150