Create to Learn - Introduction to Digital Literacy
von: Renee Hobbs
Wiley-Blackwell, 2017
ISBN: 9781118968376
Sprache: Englisch
304 Seiten, Download: 15349 KB
Format: PDF, auch als Online-Lesen
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| Title Page | 5 | ||
| Copyright Page | 6 | ||
| Contents | 7 | ||
| What to Expect in this Book | 9 | ||
| Part I Developing a Communication Strategy | 11 | ||
| Overview of Part I | 11 | ||
| Chapter 1 Create to Learn | 13 | ||
| Knowledge Matters | 14 | ||
| Literacy Matters | 15 | ||
| Learning Matters | 16 | ||
| Creating Media as a Way to Learn | 18 | ||
| Learning in College and Beyond | 19 | ||
| The Ethics of Digital Authorship | 22 | ||
| Digital Authorship: A Checklist | 23 | ||
| Activity: Reflect on Your Identity as a Digital Author | 24 | ||
| Chapter 2 Getting Creative | 25 | ||
| Play and Learning in Coursework | 26 | ||
| Create to Learn: A Five?Step Process | 27 | ||
| Where Creativity Comes From | 29 | ||
| Creative Constraints and Creative Control | 32 | ||
| Why Creative Constraints Promote Learning | 32 | ||
| The Creative Practice in Action | 34 | ||
| Creativity is an Act of Intellectual Freedom | 35 | ||
| Students and Teachers Create to Learn | 36 | ||
| Activity: Build a Creative Brief | 37 | ||
| Chapter 3 Decisions, Decisions | 39 | ||
| Strategic Communication Decisions | 42 | ||
| Rhetorical Modes: Purpose and Target Audience | 42 | ||
| Critically Analyzing Media to Understand Principles of Effective Design | 44 | ||
| Choosing the Medium | 46 | ||
| What Type of Media to Create? | 54 | ||
| Activity: Develop a Communication Strategy | 54 | ||
| Chapter 4 Accessing and Analyzing Ideas | 55 | ||
| Wondering about Makeup Tutorials | 56 | ||
| The Power of Inquiry | 57 | ||
| Knowledge Management | 59 | ||
| Analyzing and Evaluating Information | 62 | ||
| Learning to Think Like a Researcher | 65 | ||
| The Power of Representation to Shape the World | 67 | ||
| The Practice of Critical Reading | 69 | ||
| Five Critical Questions | 71 | ||
| Authors and Audiences | 73 | ||
| Messages and Meanings | 73 | ||
| Representation and Realities | 74 | ||
| Generating Ideas through Critical Analysis | 77 | ||
| Activity: Critically Analyze a Mentor Text | 78 | ||
| Chapter 5 Creating Ideas | 79 | ||
| Collaboration as Play | 81 | ||
| Standing on the Shoulders of Giants | 83 | ||
| Remix Creativity | 85 | ||
| Transformative Use | 85 | ||
| Unleashing the Power of Structure | 89 | ||
| Structuring Time | 92 | ||
| To Create is to be Seen | 93 | ||
| Deadlines and Prototyping | 93 | ||
| Tenacity and Persistence | 94 | ||
| Activity: Create a Scope of Work Plan | 95 | ||
| Chapter 6 Reflecting and Taking Action | 97 | ||
| Metacognition and Critical Reflection | 99 | ||
| Thick and Thin Engagement | 100 | ||
| Risks of Civic Participation | 102 | ||
| Reproducing the Status Quo or Challenging it | 103 | ||
| Internet Memes for Social Change | 104 | ||
| Talking Back to Media | 106 | ||
| Parody, Resistance, and Transgression | 107 | ||
| Social Action and the Multiperspectival Imagination | 109 | ||
| Reflection Activity: Dream It, Do It | 110 | ||
| Part II Nine Media Forms Help You Create to Learn | 113 | ||
| Overview of Part II | 113 | ||
| Chapter 7 Blogs and Web Sites | 117 | ||
| Blogs as Diary | 119 | ||
| Developing a Personal and Professional Voice | 120 | ||
| The Power of Hyperlinks | 121 | ||
| Designing Your Blog or Web Site | 122 | ||
| User Experience Considerations | 123 | ||
| Choosing Typefaces and Fonts | 125 | ||
| “About” Pages | 126 | ||
| Killer Headlines and Powerful Subheads | 126 | ||
| Clickbait and Online Economics | 127 | ||
| The Ethics of Blogging | 128 | ||
| Developing a Civic Identity through Blogging | 130 | ||
| Activity: Create Your Blog or Web Site | 131 | ||
| Chapter 8 Digital Audio and Podcasting | 133 | ||
| Theater of the Mind | 134 | ||
| Podcasting, Radio, and the Art of the Spoken Word | 135 | ||
| Entertainment, Emotion, and Social Commentary | 136 | ||
| Narrative Persuasion | 136 | ||
| Stories for Social Change | 137 | ||
| The Voice | 138 | ||
| Planning an Oral Performance | 140 | ||
| Audio Recording | 141 | ||
| The Art of Asking Questions | 142 | ||
| The Power of Sound and Music | 143 | ||
| Music is Magic | 144 | ||
| Vox Pop Interviews | 145 | ||
| Podcast Production | 145 | ||
| Representational Ethics | 146 | ||
| Activity: Create a Digital Story | 146 | ||
| Chapter 9 Images | 149 | ||
| The World in Images | 151 | ||
| What Makes a Great Photo? | 151 | ||
| The Emotional Truth of Photos | 152 | ||
| Truth, Beauty, and Emotional Valence | 154 | ||
| Structure Matters: The Rule of Thirds | 156 | ||
| The Power of Sequence: Why People Love Slideshows | 156 | ||
| Ambiguity and Specificity | 158 | ||
| Representational Ethics: Headlines and Captions | 158 | ||
| The Damage a Headline Can Do: A Research Study | 160 | ||
| Staging, Photo Editing, and Image Manipulation Ethics | 160 | ||
| The Instagram Revolution | 163 | ||
| Activity: Document a Place, a Person, or a Process | 163 | ||
| Chapter 10 Infographics and Data Visualization | 165 | ||
| Why Infographics Work | 167 | ||
| Controlling Attention with Dynamic Content | 168 | ||
| Controlling Attention with Comparison/Contrast | 169 | ||
| People’s Engagement with Visualization | 171 | ||
| Can You Trust an Infographic? | 171 | ||
| How to Make an Infographic in Five Easy Steps | 172 | ||
| Analyzing an Infographic | 174 | ||
| Information Economics | 175 | ||
| Where Does Data Come From? | 177 | ||
| The Ethics and the Economics of Information | 177 | ||
| Activity: Create an Infographic Resume | 178 | ||
| Chapter 11 Vlogs and Screencasts | 179 | ||
| Vlogging and Screencasting | 181 | ||
| Developing an Argument | 181 | ||
| A Short History of Online Video | 183 | ||
| Choices, Choices | 184 | ||
| Ethos and Performance: The Power of Personality | 185 | ||
| Participatory Complications | 187 | ||
| How to Create a Vlog | 189 | ||
| Screencasting in Education | 190 | ||
| How to Make a Screencast | 192 | ||
| Ethical Issues: Dealing with Feedback | 193 | ||
| Activity: Create a Screencast or Vlog | 194 | ||
| Chapter 12 Video Production | 197 | ||
| Amateur and Professional Video | 199 | ||
| The Personal Video Essay | 202 | ||
| “How To” and Educational Videos | 203 | ||
| Documentary Structure | 205 | ||
| Eyewitness Video: The Power of Actuality | 207 | ||
| How to Film a Live Event | 208 | ||
| The Ethics of Contemporary Propaganda | 210 | ||
| Film and Video as Forms of Advocacy | 211 | ||
| Activity: Create a Video of an Event | 213 | ||
| Chapter 13 Animation | 215 | ||
| Life as Story | 216 | ||
| Drawing as Abstraction | 218 | ||
| Education and the Imagination | 219 | ||
| Animation Styles | 222 | ||
| The Power of Animation | 223 | ||
| Non-Narrative Animation | 225 | ||
| Computer-Generated Animation | 227 | ||
| Animated Interviews | 228 | ||
| Activity: Create an Animation | 229 | ||
| Chapter 14 Remix Production | 231 | ||
| Swimming in a Sea of Media | 232 | ||
| Fans as Active Audiences | 233 | ||
| Cut-and-Paste Culture | 234 | ||
| Learning Through Imitation | 236 | ||
| Critical Distance and Affinity | 237 | ||
| Celebrating Media Culture | 237 | ||
| Why Pop Culture is Popular | 239 | ||
| Critiquing Media Culture | 240 | ||
| Intertextuality | 242 | ||
| Copyright, Remix and Fair Use | 243 | ||
| The Ethics of Memes | 244 | ||
| Balancing the Familiar and Unfamiliar | 246 | ||
| Activity: Create a Remix | 246 | ||
| Chapter 15 Social Media | 249 | ||
| Sharing as Relational Expression | 250 | ||
| Human Behavior Adjusts to Technologies | 253 | ||
| To Share or Not to Share: Understanding Virality | 253 | ||
| Measuring Impact | 256 | ||
| Privacy | 256 | ||
| Social Media for Civic Activism | 257 | ||
| Managing Social Media: Personal and Professional Life | 259 | ||
| Context Collapse | 259 | ||
| Activity: Develop a Social Media Campaign | 260 | ||
| Notes | 261 | ||
| Index | 281 | ||
| EULA | 296 |