Sunday, February 3, 2008

A Roundup of Items in the News

I'm still very much under the weather, but I wanted to post these links while they were still somewhat fresh...enjoy.

Playing to Type, an article on type design from the Atlantic Monthly.

Interview with Kathryn Montgomery, an expert on young people and online culture, on WILL's Media Matters. (I've not read her most recent book yet; it's on my list.)

Note from the Pew Internet Project on the increase in the use of video sharing websites.

A Non Sequitur comic appropriate for our visual literacy class.

Information from a study about teens and online news.

Terrific guide to Web 2.0 with lots of practical advice.

New PBS online environment for pre-schoolers.

New Cory Doctorow book for kids.

"D is for Digital" report on kids' educational toys.

A useful blog on using comics in schools and libraries.

The "intellectual" version of YouTube: Big Think.

Commonsense ideas about retaining more of what you read online.

A blog on young people's media use and production from around the world.

A video tribute to educational films.

Some good resources and pointers re: teens, games, and libraries.

1 comment:

Klara Kim said...

Big Think looks like a more dignified Yahoo Answers! I'm so accustomed to the ultra-quick super-edited monologues on YouTube that I can almost feel my brain slowing down as it processes these video clips. It feels like I'm finally chewing my food adequately.

I hope you feel lots better by the time we have class!