Literacy… Popular Culture and Representations of Literacy – Out in Paperback! 10 Dec 201210 Dec 2012 Five years ago Amy Zenger and I published a book about the everyday literacy practices represented in popular culture, specifically in mainstream movies. We found that, when you pay attention…
Cross-Cultural… New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders – It’s out and about! 18 Apr 201218 Apr 2012 It's out and about. New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders is officially published. You can follow the link above or just click on the book cover to…
Pedagogy… The simple art of listening to – and caring about – what students say 4 Mar 2012 Time for a bit of rant today. I was at a local conference on teaching recently, doing my dog-and-pony show about how students engage with digital media outside the classroom…
Cross-Cultural… New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders – Getting Closer! 19 Feb 201219 Feb 2012 The page proofs are in and the book is listed on the publisher's website, so that must mean it's going to happen. While the book won't be out until later…
Cross-Cultural… Spaces, language, and making meaning online 24 Sep 201124 Sep 2011 I had the pleasure yesterday of hearing a talk from Suresh Canagarajah, who always helps me refresh and re-imagine my ideas about language and movement in a cross-cultural world. Yesterday…
Pedagogy… The One-Way Bridge, Part 2 17 May 201116 Jun 2011 At a conference last week I heard several people defend the approaches to popular culture and literacy pedagogy that I define as the "One-Way Bridge." They talked of the ways…
Pedagogy… The One-Way Bridge 12 May 201116 Jun 2011 For a long time there has been a lot of discussion in literacy and writing education, at both the K-12 and college levels, about "using" popular culture as a "bridge"…
Uncategorized Teaching Literacies with Digital and Pop Culture Media for Grades 4-12 6 May 201116 Jun 2011 I'm off to Orlando and IRA (the International Reading Association) tomorrow to be part of an all-day workshop with some wonderful scholars and teachers. The workshop, "Teaching Literacies with Digital…
Cross-Cultural… New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders 18 Mar 201116 Jun 2011 The edited collection Amy Zenger and I have been working on, New Media Literacies and Participatory Popular Culture Across Borders, has been accepted for publication by Routledge Press. The book…