What assumptions do we make about student's media literacy? Here are a few ideas to provide a basic 'level set' for students who will be engaging with the internet for their coursework.
1. Coastal Bend College & University of Houston-Victoria Distance Learning Academies Web Literacy Basics Michael Weston 2010 Title V Summer Academy
2. Why? “…educators, policy makers, employers, and the public at large, must now recognize that <the> new literacies of the Internet will be central to the most important literacy and learning issues of our generation.” - Coiro, Julie. Handbook of Research on New Literacies. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates/Taylor & Francis Group, 2008. Print.
11. Content Production Blogs Wikis Education Websites Discussion Boards Social Networking sites Audio and Video sharing
12. The Long Tail or just stale? “Often presented as a phenomenon of interest primarily to mass market retailers and web-based businesses, the Long Tail also has implications for the producers of content, especially those whose products could not — for economic reasons — find a place in pre-Internet information distribution channels controlled by book publishers, record companies, movie studios, and television networks. Looked at from the producers' side, the Long Tail has made possible a flowering of creativity across all fields of human endeavour. One example of this is YouTube, where thousands of diverse videos — whose content, production value or lack of popularity make them inappropriate for traditional television — are easily accessible to a wide range of viewers.” -Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tail
15. A new pattern of communication and influence built around social networks and participatory media: The four-step flow of information attention acquisition assessment action 15
