Interested in helping students become better readers, writers, and critical thinkers? We need to “play with media” to become more effective communicators and improve our media literacy skills as both learners and citizens. As you learn to play with digital text, images, audio and video, you will communicate more creatively and flexibly with a wider variety of options. Author and educator Wesley Fryer will inspire and empower you, as a creative person, to expand your personal senses of digital literacy and digital agency as a multimedia communicator! (This presentation was shared for teachers in Yukon Public Schools, Oklahoma, on January 16, 2012, for a district professional development conference.)

1. Improving Reading, Writing &
Critical Thinking Skills with
Media
by Wesley Fryer
16 January 2012
Yukon, OK wfryer.me/improve

2. Why? What? How?
wfryer.me/improve

3. playingwithmedia.com/pages/about
100%
eBook
discount
through
May 31,
2012
Use discount code: (removed)

4. www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/6577749539
December 2011

5. Cub Scout
Scrapbook
1949 - 1950
www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/6708933389

6. www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/6708939781

7. www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/6708936577

8. What? How?
Why?
wfryer.me/improve

9. 3rd Grade
Report
Card
May 1949
www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/6708936719

10. Text
www.simpleapps.eu/simplemind/

11. Why?

12. Better
windows
into
student
learning
www.flickr.com/photos/marcsamsom/3303868143

13. www.flickr.com/photos/torres21/6048960035
more effective communicators

14. www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/4588648148
shift to mobile content creators

15. www.flickr.com/photos/torres21/863323961
foundation for multimedia communication

16. www.flickr.com/photos/edvvc/4956218769
publish multimedia eBooks

17. 2001 revision of Bloom's Taxonomy

18. Why? How?
What?
wfryer.me/improve

19. im
www.flickr.com/photos/ncsphotography/4247856340
x t ag
t e es
audio vide o
playingwithmedia.com
(we need to play with media)

21. http://share.playingwithmedia.com

22. digital text
YOU need a moderated, interactive class blog
www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/4476921146

23. @kathleen_morris on Twitter

24. http://primarytech.global2.vic.edu.au/2011/09/16/the-power-of-twitter/

25. “27 people took
the time to leave a
comment on
Jarrod’s blog post.”
http://primarytech.global2.vic.edu.au/2011/09/16/the-power-of-twitter/

26. http://primarytech.global2.vic.edu.au/2011/09/16/the-power-of-twitter/
“The next morning, Jarrod’s mum emailed me: “You should
have seen Jarrod’s face when he saw his post this morning,
he was so excited!””

27. search.twitter.com
hashtag:
#comments4kids

28. poetry
blog
posterous.com

29. http://jet-literacy.posterous.com

30. http://jet-literacy.posterous.com/coles-diamante

31. audio
record and share
student voices
www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/6577345187

32. student
essay
read-
alouds
http://share.playingwithmedia.com/2011/08/25/super-hero-stories/

33. community
interview
http://share.playingwithmedia.com/2011/09/24/4th-graders-interview-state-rep-during-field-trip/

34. field
trip
reflection
http://share.playingwithmedia.com/2011/10/07/felicity-discusses-the-normandy-field-trip/

36. http://share.playingwithmedia.com/2011/10/07/felicity-discusses-the-normandy-field-trip/

37. http://lifesoundslikethis.posterous.com/

38. www.flickr.com/photos/dkuropatwa/2990282325
images
leverage visual literacy
for learning

39. www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/2959807121
The Replacement for Saturday Morning Cartoons?

40. www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/6074438029/
23 Aug 2011

41. 5photos@posterous.com
http://5photos.posterous.com/

42. http://5photos.posterous.com/can-you-guess-this-book-1

43. http://5photos.posterous.com/can-you-guess-this-book-1

44. http://5photos.posterous.com/can-you-guess-this-book-1

45. http://5photos.posterous.com/can-you-guess-this-book-1

46. http://5photos.posterous.com/can-you-guess-this-book-1

47. http://365.wesfryer.com

48. video

49. narrated
slideshow

50. www.sonicpics.com

51. Spring Break 2011
“The Beach”

52. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W3DjgWJtB0

53. http://voicethread.com/

54. 21st century
book
report?

56. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kxIed86bEk

57. Legos
iPad2
Webkinz
script
finger
puppet
free
teleprompter
iPad app

58. www.playingwithmedia.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kxIed86bEk

59. Why? What?
How?
wfryer.me/improve

60. http://lessons.yukonps.com

61. http://maps.playingwithmedia.com/

62. Cub Scout
Scrapbook
1949 - 1950
www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/6708933321

63. http://www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/sets/72157626814992000/

64. Improving Reading, Writing &
Critical Thinking Skills with
Media
by Wesley Fryer
16 January 2012
Yukon, OK wfryer.me/improve