4. “ Literacy has always meant being able to consume and produce the media forms of the day, whatever they may be. For centuries this has meant writing essays and reports filled with words and paragraphs. Now it means blending words with images, sounds, music, video, and other media to create the new communication default: the multimedia collage, in the form of web pages, digital stories, YouTube creations and much more. It is up to us to help digital kids migrate from text centrism to media collage literacy in creative, thoughtful, ways. We need to help them cultivate their new media talents, adopt art as the 4th R and use storytelling to convey their ideas in rich, compelling ways. We need to help them create media, stories and projects that are articulate and transformative. And we need to help them collaborate and share their work and talents within the collaborative community of the social web.” Dr. Jason Ohler, Professor of Educational Technology, University of Alaska
Do you agree with this philosophy? What makes you uncomfortable?
Add characters and speech bubbles created by the kids to a word wall as well as single frame comics.
Only one computer? Not much time? Use photos from class work, field trip, guest speaker, etc. Create a comic with the whole class with help from an LCD projector or SmartBoard.
What other formats may lend themselves to a comic? Use graphic organizers to plan with specific formats.
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