This session provides participants with an understanding of how to design interactive and immersive learning environments by blending together a wide variety of different online media. Participants will have an opportunity to examine media rich resources that can be blended together through the use of embedding techniques. Participants will then learn how these resources, along with primary source content and more traditional online resources such as Web sites, can be combined together with contemporary learning platforms such as wikis and Google Earth to create dynamic learning environments for students.

Critical Reading

Core Principles of Media Literacy | National Association For Media Literacy Ecucation (see the Six Principles)

Confronting the Challenges of Media Literacy | Henry Jenkins

Research Review:  Multimodal Learning Through Media | Edutopia

A Learner-Centered Approach to Multimedia Explanations:  Deriving Instructional Design Principles from Cognitive Theory | Moreno and Mayer

Multimodal Learning Through Media:  What the Research Says | The Metiri Group

Visible Knowledge Project: Multimedia Authoring | Interviews

Transliteracy | Thomas et. al, First Monday

Media Platforms

Wikispaces | wiki platform with outstanding embedding tools | presentation embed Wiki is here

Google Earth | use when the lesson or content contains a geographical context

Resources

Best Embeds for Educational Wikis and Blogs | Making Teachers Nerdy

Google Earth Resources | online HTML editor

Process:  examples

JFK Media Lesson:  What would you write?

Cell Division:  Understanding how one cell becomes two

Zebra Mussels:  Data Evaluation exercise

Sources of Media for embedding

Google Streetview

Drop.io

Flickr

YouTube

Issuu.com and Scribd.com

Slideshare.net

del.icio.us

Jing

General Embedding

embed IT

Embedding anything in your Web site (advanced)

Resources:

Audio

Gcast:  phone podcasting

Odeo

Avatars

Voki:  create your own talking avatar

Bookmarks

Del.icio.us

Chat

Yackpack

Documents

Scribd:  post multiple document formats

File Storage

Box.net:  file storage system

Google:

            Google Maps

            Google Streetview

            Google Docs includes Google Presentation | Google Spreadsheets

            Google Calendar

            Google Gadgets

            Google Services Gadgets

Imagery

Flickr:  3 Billion images

            Flickr Storm

            Flickr CC

            Flickrin

            Multicolr Search Lab

            Big Huge Labs

Mind-mapping

Bubbl.us 

Multimedia

Flowgram:  combine multiple resources together.

Presentations

Slideshare:  repository of presentations, most typically PowerPoint

Qik

Live streams from cell phones.

RSS Feeds

Add information streams

Screen capture

Jing Project

Slide Shows

Photobucket

Slide.com

Timeline tools

XTimeline 

TimeTube: 

Video:

YouTube:  repository of video | 150,000 per day | 78.3 million estimated uploaded | 412 years to watch all videos

TeacherTube

DNA Tube

Google Video

Broadcast Video

ustream

Animoto: create flash video  

Voicethread:  create video with commenting features

Specialty sites:

National Archives Experience:  The Digital Vault.

Life Photos hosted by Google:  Google hosts all Life photos from the 1750’s to today

Alec Couros Open Thinking Wiki

Transliteracy:  The ability to read, write, and interact across a range of platforms and tools from orality through print, TV, radio and film, to networked digital media.

Core Principles of Media Literacy

Confronting the Challenges of Media Literacy | Henry Jenkins

Project Look Smart

http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwritestart/2009/07/wetoku-record-on-a-webcam-embe.php

JFK Resources

Visual Literacy