TeachingMedia

Brilliant video about the history of "no homo" and some reasons why homophobia isn't cool.

"video blogging - I'm all alone in my room talking into a video camera!" an explanation of the challenges and opportunities of vlogging and the pressures of performance.

Race matters. Here's a little 101 about how to confront racism. Also known as "that thing you said is racist" versus "you are a racist" conversation.

Draft 1 of an open source video about net neutrality. WE also included the second draft edit on the DVD that includes our feature length film that we used the internet heavily to promote. For mor...

The third in a series of videos documenting my use of social media in my personal and professional life. This installment introduces social bookmarking. My del.icio.us account is hrheingold.

A political history of Iran and the origins of the blogging movement.

A great concept map that includes a number of the more elusive aspects of social media not typically addressed in the commercial (e.g., marketing, pr, business, startups, celebrity culture, corporate media) sphere.

How do we judge if a subject is easy or difficult? Condemnation of media studies reflects a fundamental confusion about its aims

Students at East Metro Youth Services present a different side of Scarborough.

Little do they realize that when it comes to the news and the advertisers who make it possible, the truth is not always part of the story and nothing can be taken at face value. While learning about media consolidation and the power of money over truth, Bounce, Pema and Jagroop decide to take on the developers and the media.

The purpose of the game is to teach kids how to spot online marketing strategies, protect their personal information and avoid online predators.

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Calgary, AB - When looking at the values and lifestyles of North American young adults ages 18-34, there is a clear line of division: the U.S.-Canada border.

Children from a deprived London housing estate were given cameras to record the detail of their daily lives - with beautiful results

Complete unit planner for Media Arts Open courses

"As long as media literacy education was about television, it was perceived to be fluff," she said. "But when the Internet came along, kids didn't know how to cite sources online, and they were creating publicly visible content in their own homes without their parents' knowledge...which sparked serious safety concerns."\n\nIf Thoman and her colleagues' work over the past half century can be credited with establishing media literacy as an academic subject, it's possible that the digital media revolution will catalyze this subject's introduction into the mainstream curriculum.\n\nThat reality seemed closer when, in May, my former boss Sen. John Kerry, along with Senators Rockefeller and Snowe, introduced the "21st Century Skills Incentive Fund Act" into the Senate. The bill recognizes that, in order to prepare students for the modern workforce, education must go beyond core curricula and teach "critical thinking and problem solving skills, communication skills, creativity and innovation skills, collaboration skills, contextual learning skills, and information and media literacy skills."

in high school courses, 'media' is often taught by visual artists or English teachers. Very rarely by those who have worked in media, the web or technical capacities (as production based degrees are not counted towards core curriculum areas: history, english, math, computer science, french, phys ed, etc).

So far on this blog, my posts have explored larger themes, such as Digital Natives vs Digital Immigrants and the media's treatment of stories about technological dangers. But our blog here at Digital Nation also aims to take you behind the scenes and into the process of making a documentary film for FRONTLINE. We want you to see what we're working on, read what we're thinking about, and learn how our reporting is shaping our opinions on a daily basis.

McBride concurs. "This generation, more than any other, wants to be able to participate in knowledge-not just be an audience to it." She thinks emerging professionals should spend as much time using online tools for professional knowledge and development

Why the history of the public sphere matters in the Internet age