William Kist

Resources

New Literacies in the News:

Can Technology Make Teens Better Writers? - MSN Encarta, November 2008

Cleveland Heights Schools' Laptop Project - Plain Dealer

Tech Literacy to Join Nation's Report Card - eSchool News

Kids Spread Cheating Methods on YouTube - Chicago Sun-Times

Beware of Online Friends

I'm So Totally, Digitally Close to You - New York Times Magazine

Up to Age 11, Kids Aren't Heavy Internet Users - Marketing Daily

Online student-teacher relationships - CNN News

Online, R U Really Reading? - New York Times

Friend or Foe? Social Networking Sites - Digital Directions

Using Texting in the Classroom - Edutopia

Using Twitter in the Classroom

Booming Teen Book Sales

Blogging Encourages Teen Writing - eSchool News

Pew Study on Technolgy and Teen Writing

Twitter Saves Student from Egyptian Jail

Flickr as Art Form

Reading Trends of Some Undergrads

Blogging in English Class

Why People Read Blogs - Wall Street Journal

How Multimedia Can Improve Learning - eSchool News

Online Resources:

Commission on Media

Remote Access

Selected Books Related to New Media and New Ways of Thinking about Literacy:

Art as Experience	Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures	Flow	Notebooks of the Mind: Explorations of Thinking	The Arts and Creation of Mind
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana	What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy	Literacy in the New Media Age	New Literacies	Understanding Comics

Selected Books about Films and Filmmaking

The Parade's Gone By	The Silent Clowns	Who The Devil Made It	The Film Encyclopedia	Film Langauge: A Semiotics of the Cinema
The Film Sense	Easy Riders, Raging Bulls