Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Timeline and catalog of Internet Memes

For those of you exploring Internet memes with your students you might find this site useful. It compiles an interactive history of memes going back to 1982 with the emergence of the emoticon.

Other formats included within the site are a list, flipbook, and map, so users can select the view they like best.

Wednesday, August 06, 2008

Michael Wesch on Media Literacy and Teaching

I've been working my way through this video from Michael Wesch on media literacy and the college classroom. Those of you who've seen his videos on The Machine is Us and Today's College Students will find some familiar material at the beginning, and he goes much further here into how he uses web 2.0 tools for his courses. Very interesting work.