September 2nd, 2010
Category: Teaching Literacy
Tags: 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, dress, fashions, From, Grade, Help, Must, Please, Popular, Some, Were
In Advanced Contemporary Literacy, we are required to learn about the decades, and must dress according to each of them on specific days. Please help me, as i’m getting graded on this, and we haven’t been taught yet what fashions were in. Pictures would be nice too :)
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August 18th, 2010
Category: Information Literacy VIDEOS
Tags: Find, Foreign, Popular, Program
Phil Orr, a librarian at USI’s Rice Library, shows media studies students how to explore the Internet for foreign television programs. In part two, he shows “doctortew” how to use the website Wikipedia. The explanation was filmed by Chad Tew, a journalism professor, for an assignment in his course “Introduction to Mass Communication” that is taught at the University of Southern Indiana. In the assignment, students adapt a foreign TV program for a US and international audience. Their mission: To create a sales pitch that reduces the distributor’s uncertainty. Outcomes: Students learn about media economics, narrative style, and global media.…
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August 14th, 2010
Category: Information Literacy VIDEOS
Tags: Find, Foreign, Popular, Program
Phil Orr, a librarian at USI’s Rice Library, shows media studies students how to explore the Internet for foreign television programs. In part one, he shows “doctortew” how to use the website IMDB.com. The explanation was filmed by Chad Tew, a journalism professor, for an assignment in his course “Introduction to Mass Communication” that is taught at the University of Southern Indiana. In the assignment, students adapt a foreign TV program for a US and international audience. Their mission: To create a sales pitch that reduces the distributor’s uncertainty. Outcomes: Students learn about media economics, narrative style and global media.…
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April 29th, 2010
Category: Technology Literacy ARTICLES
Tags: Among, gaming, Nowadays, Online, Popular, Teenagers
Online games refer the games which can be played online over the internet. Online games also can be played against different users in different locations.
Basic online gaming requires a good internet connection with some basic hardware and software requirements. Some people play online casino and poker games remotely through the internet. One can play online game from anywhere worldwide without installing the game software on their computer or laptop.
Playing online games are as most popular internet activity among teenagers as popular visiting social networking sites, watching live videos streaming, listening songs or online shopping.
The advantages of online gaming
1. Teenagers who…
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April 27th, 2010
Category: Teaching Literacy
Tags: atheist, Bible, comes, Country, From, Misconceptions, Most, Opinion, People's, Popular, richard dawkins forum, Would
………or are they personally familiar with the Biblical text?
Based upon a lot of the popular mythology inherent within many of the “questions” posted about the Bible here in this forum, I’ve wondered if general education about the basic facts of the Bible are largely absent in most countries nowadays. Obviously, when the Bible was used as a reading class textbook in various countries, there was much more personally familiarity with the basic stories and moral teachings of the Bible. One prolific author told me, for example, that when he is asked to speak in Australia, he can no longer assume…
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Around the world, has the reading of books (not just literacy rates) gone down or up in recent years?
I am presenting American music to students in Africa, and I want a clean song that would be good to have them listen to. Rap or hip hop preferably because they really enjoy that.Thanks!