Transmedia isn’t just a new buzzword that belongs to academics or high-priced media consultants. It’s an approach to storytelling that boasts a range of potential curricular applications that applies to literacy and the content areas.
Every Platform Tells a Story: Transmedia has the power to make any topic more vivid and personal
By The Digital Shift on June 1, 2012
Filed Under: Ebooks, K-12, Media, Transliteracy Tagged With: Andy Plemmons, Connect the Pop, Henry Jenkins, Laura Fleming, Peter Gutierrez, SLJ, Star Trek, The 39 Clues, transmedia
SLJ’s Top Ten 2011: Technology
By Kathy Ishizuka on December 2, 2011
These picks aren’t so much about products, things you should run out and buy, but rather the overarching concepts that’ll potentially shape and be shaped by our collective imagination.
Filed Under: Digital Divide, Ebooks, K-12, Mobile, Social Media, Transliteracy Tagged With: accessibility, Balabolka, CodeNow, curation, Dell, Freedom Stick, Henry Jenkins, Hoot.Me, iPad, Ira Socol, Kindle Fire, Lytro, mobile, Mobility Shifts, Newquill, Paul Allison, Project Noah, Sifteo, SLJ, Social Media, tablets, Twitter