Guide To This Site's Contents

Welcome to Participatory Media Literacy (Home)
Blogging
Wiki
RSS
Social Bookmarking, Tagging, Music/Photo/Video Sharing
Podcasting
Video Blogging
Digital Storytelling
Mashups
Chat: Channeling the Backchannel
Transliteracy
Forecasting: Thinking long term, developing foresight

Participatory Media Education Resources

Participatory Media Education Resources

Research Projects and Articles

• Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century by Jenkins (P.I.) with Ravi Purushotma, Margaret Weigel, and Katie Clinton.
• MEDIATIZED STORIES. Mediation perspectives on digital storytelling among youth -- research project that looks at how young people use digital media to create personal narratives and virtual representations of self.
• Support for Global Project Based Learning: U.S. Teacher Motivation, Online Training, Virtual Teamwork, Trust and Identity by Datta Kaur Khalsa, Ph.D. -- dissertation project which considers in depth how a group of UK teachers implemented global project based learning.
• Pew Internet and American Life Project. 2006. A decade of adoption: How the Internet has woven itself into American life
• Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace by danah boyd
• Kids' Informal Learning With Digital Media MacArthur Foundation sponsored research program
• Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning? by Bryan Alexander
• More Thoughts on Teaching and Learning: Lessons Learned by Barbara Ganley
• Collaboration, Literacy, Practices, and Authorship: Using Social Networking Tools to Explore the Wisdom of Crowds by Joe Moxley and Ryan T. Meehan
• Teaching Wiki (for college level faculty, particularly in writing and rhetoric)
• Wiki Pedagogy
• Teaching and Learning Online With Wikis by Naomi Augar, Ruth Raitman, and Wanlei Zhou
• FutureLab, "Creating a new Learning Landscape"
• Center for Research on Civic Learning and Engagement
• Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants
• Tracking The Myspace Generation -- 5 part LA Times series, including survey results
• Transformations - What Do Net Gen Students Have To Teach Us? Stories from the Connected Classroom
• The Ultimate Bookshelf for a Youth Media Educator
• The future of rational-critical debate in online public spheres (PDF)
• Dossiers Pedagogique(English language bibliography on wiki and other pedagogical resources)
• Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age
• Project New Media Literacies

Youth-led Programs and Projects

• Youth Noise -- online community and social network site for youth concerned with creating social change
• Spank Mag! "Youth culture defined by youth" -- online webzine and forum moderated and maintained by young people
• Community Access Program Youth Initiative (CAP YI) -- provides Canadian youth with work experience and information/technology training by employing them at CAP's community access centers
• Plugged In -- community-based organization that provides access to technology for low-income communities, and trains young people to create websites and video for their communities
• TeenNet Project -- online health network that uses media and technology to engage youth in issues that are relevant to them, emphasizing youth participation
• HarlemLIVE includes a blog and video productions by Harlem Youth
• KidLink a website for children and youth that offers educational programs, and fosters collaboration and building social networks
• Aboriginal Youth Network (AYN) online network for Aboriginal youth in Canada and elsewhere
• High School Online Collaborative Writing Wiki
• Philadelphia High School of the Future
• Listening Across Borders: Creating Virtual Spaces for Youth Global Exchange by Mindy Faber
• Listen Up!: A youth media network that connects young video producers to resources, support, and projects in order to develop the field and achieve an authentic youth voice in the mass media.

Teaching resources

• Teaching Social Software With Social Software by Ulises Mejias
• Uses and potentials of wikis in the classroom by Feris and Wilder
• Wikis in Education -- comprehensive guide and list of links
• What is a wiki?
• A Catalog of CoWeb Uses (PDF) by Collaborative Software Lab, Georgia Tech, 2000
• International Education and Research Network (iEARN)
• List of practitioners of civic engagement education / media & technology
• OurMedia Learning Center
• Digital Storytelling in Higher Education: Context, Community and Imagination by Barbara Ganley
• Eduforge Learning Resources
• Improving Instruction Through The Use of Weblogs Wiki
• Edublog Insights
• Bud the Teacher's Blogging Policies and Resources Wiki
• Teaching RSS
• Podcasting Resources for Educators & Studentscompiled by Gary S. Stager
• Fair Use Toolkit
• Blogs for learning
• Teaching hacks wiki
• Teaching and Learning with the Net Generation
• How to search Google for educational videos
• Digital video in the classroom
• Make a free, web conference room with voice, text chat, and slide-sharing -- in minutes.
• teachers.yahoo.com -- free online service for educators to create, find and share lesson plans, worksheets and ideas.
• Learning from YouTube Class taught at Pizer college ON and ABOUT YouTube
• Media Education Foundation: The Media Education Foundation produces and distributes documentary films and other educational resources to inspire critical reflection on the social, political and cultural impact of American mass media.

Classes and Workshops

• Participatory Media Workshop, Stanford, Fall 2006
• Z Media Institute: Z Media Institute teaches radical politics, media and organizing skills, the principles and practice of creating non-hierarchical institutions and projects, activism, and vision and strategy for social change. Classes are held for eight days each June in Woods Hole, MA.

Civic Literacy

• Education for Democracy -- Civic Mission of Schools
• Partnership for 21st Century Skills
• The Maryland Center for Civic Education
• CIRCLE -- Civic Youth
• Civics Online
• Everyday Creativity as Civic Engagement: A Cultural Citizenship View of New Media

Media Literacy

• Media Literacy Clearinghouse
• Developing safe and smart Internet citizens
• How to evaluate Web resources (PDF)
• The New Literacies
• Critical media literacy is not an option"
• David Silver's Digital Literacy Syllabus
• Henry Jenkins podcast -- Combating the Participation Gap: Why New Media Literacy Matters