media literacy

The Art of the Podcast Translates to Class

August 18, 2014 by Susan Detrie

A teacher in one of my graduate classes remarked that she loved using technology in her classroom, but to her the biggest waste of time was the podcast. Why would anyone bother with a podcast? It was clear she had never listened to This American Life . Until that moment, I thought everyone had listened to the NPR show, since its often the number one download on iTunes. Still, it appears the podcast, while a powerful communication tool, has yet […]

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Social Media in Classrooms

March 3, 2013 by Susan Detrie

While discourse about social media in schools has often trended towards the negative, using social media for instruction purposes can bring new life to many subjects. Imagine a Facebook book page created by a class for an author or a figure in history, where the class goal is to speak in the person’s voice, post pictures from their life and comment on the texts they read written by the author or historical figure. Some old friends of mine who found […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: education, Facebook, media literacy, social media, Vimeo, YouTube

January 4, 2012 by Susan Detrie

Having started in video and digital graphics when it was an obscure field, with few available courses, it has been an interesting life experience to see video and digital image-making go mainstream, and grow to the extent that the average person may discuss the latest special effects in a film with knowledge or use an Adobe product for a school project or a business presentation. While many in the field express concern over everyone thinking they know all about digital […]

Categories: Ed Tech • Tags: education, Henry Jenkins, media literacy, technology

SUSAN DETRIE Ed.S.

Instructional Design and Digital Media.

Tag: media literacy

The Art of the Podcast Translates to Class

Media Literacy