Pop Culture in the Library
Reflect on the possibilities and/or challenges when making popular culture artefacts available in the library. When I was young, I loved books by Paul Jennings. Whenever I went to check one out of the...
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Oh, the spaces you’ll go!
The taken-for-grantedness within my own Resource Centre where I have been at the helm for the last five years has become a habit! The centre runs smoothly, the children love visiting each week, we have...
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Reflect on something significant you learned about youth popular culture in weeks 6-11. In her article, YouTube: the new cinema of attractions, (2008), Teresa Rizzo explores similarities between early...
View ArticleGive students the choice and teachers the training!
Response to Unit Readings Web 2.0, digital native, digital literacy, 21st Century learner, social networking, electronic medium, Web 2.0 technologies, mobile devices, blogging, multi-modal texts – the...
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Goodreads App
Do you get to the holidays and can’t remember the books you wanted to read? Do you get recommendations and then forget what they were when you get to the library or get time to read? With the Goodreads...
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer – a cross-media pop culture phenomenon
Choose a popular culture phenomenon and describe some of its cross-media and/or intertextual features that interest you. Few pop culture phenomena have been quite as pervasive as Buffy the Vampire...
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The Screen Generation
The influence of the media on the youth of today is practically impossible to get away from due to the nature of the “Screen Generation”. Students are becoming obsessive about being connected via...
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Popular Text – LogosQuiz
Level 1 – recognisable to most An app for the whole family! My two sons came across this app somehow (probably from someone else as school) so I thought I would see what the fuss was about. They were...
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Gaming = fun + learning
Engaging with video games from an early age. The outdated mode of delivery of formal educational institutions where students passively come to be ‘filled up’ with knowledge delivered by ‘the expert’,...
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HUXTABLES, KITT, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, and more…80s TV love
My television watching days began with an old TV in the lounge room. It didn’t have a remote and if you wanted to change channels you had to get up and turn the dial to switch between the two channels...
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