Mary's+HTOW

Electronic Materials for Children and Young Adults
 * Annette Lamb, IUPUI
 * *offered this summer
 * Use this site to find out about a lot of electronic and online resources you may not be aware of. There are also lots of helpful tips on how to do things like build pathfinders, webquests, and transmedia activities. In addition, you'll find a ton of links to articles about the topic.
 * Here's a little excerpt from her site that may inspire you to explore electronic resources more thoroughly:

"The MacArthur Foundation studied how children and young adults use and learn from digital media. They examined young people as "active innovators using digital media rather than passive consumers of popular culture or academic knowledge." It was found that "although computers are now fixtures in most schools and many homes, there is a growing recognition that kids' passion for digital media has been ignited more by peer group sociability and play than academic learning. This gap between in-school and out-of-school experience represents a gap in children's engagement in learning, a gap in our research and understandings, and a missed opportunity to reenergize public education."

for all of her pages including an Information Inquiry for Teachers page as well as a School Media Specialists page (hint, hint...great resources for the professional toolkit!).
 * This is the website for the class I'm in, but Annette has a lot of other materials online as well. Go to eduScapes

Frontline: [|Digital Nation] Google Calendar
 * Watching Frontline is a favorite activity of mine carried over from my days without television where I'd watch online programs (which will happen again this summer!). This is a really great news show that explores current events through in-depth documentaries. They usually are a little over an hour in length, but some of them are longer. You can watch the programs in chapters. Also, they usually have additional footage online beyond that of the basic program. Digital Nation is one of the latest episodes that explores how the internet and technology and just "connectedness" in general is shaping and changing our lives. Users had a lot of interaction with this particular episode and were invited to make their own video posts.
 * These programs (and Digital Nation) would be great to explore for high schoolers. They can be watched in short chapters so you don't have to watch the whole thing but can quickly discuss. Also, I saw some neat examples of students who had created their own little videos about technology (i.e. a girl who hated going to the dentist discussed her dentist's new technology to ease anxiety at the dentist office and interviewed others including her dentist about the new technolgy).
 * Getting Started

Google Sites
 * Getting Started
 * Examples: Electronic Material Pathfinder and Transmedia Project

//Electronic Materials for Children and Young Adults//. Ed. Annette Lamb. Web. 2010. .