We are discussing the variety of formats adolescent literature can take, especially in our digital age. After reading chapter 3 “New Technology, New Attitudes, and New Literacies” (LITERATURE for Today’s Young Adults, Alleen Pace Nilsen, any edition) and experiencing some of the different formats and the variety of literacies involved in these formats, what do you see as the appeal or the drawbacks of these different ways of writing and reading adolescent literature? How is the experience of reading them different from the experience of reading traditional print texts?
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The questions to consider include
1. In addition to traditional prose, print text, what are the various forms adolescent literature can take, like Alice Fields virtual reality adventures (Perpetual Nomads) and the digital novel “Inanimate Alice: An Example of A Digital Novel”?
2. How does the experience of reading adolescent literature in multimedia formats differ from the experience of reading it in traditional ways?
1. View the video "New Literacies and New Forms."
PART TWO
Summarize/Review Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher in 5-7 paragraphs detail the book briefly with relevant content, professionally written. No revisions and no re-editing must be in final draft/drop mode?
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Web 1.0: Information
The early Internet revolutionized teachers’ ac-
cess to information and to each other. In 1995,
Kathy Schrock began her Guide for Educators
website, an extensive hotlist of links to education
resources. In the same year, Bernie Dodge pub-
lished his WebQuest website, sending students
out into the Internet on investigative missions.
YA Lit 1.0
Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Site, which
made its debut in 1996, provided English teach-
ers primarily with lesson plans or extensive Cliff
Notes™-style information on authors and young
adult literature (for example, Cynthia Kado-
hata,
Kira-Kira
,
www.carolhurst.com/titles/kira-
kira.html). Official author websites were primar-
ily academic and impersonal (see Lois Lowery,
http://tinyurl.com/llowry). For its time, Web-
Quests were inno-vative, adding opportunities
for collaboration while learning Web navigation
and website evaluation. But by today’s standards,
many of the early WebQuests were highly struc-
tured worksheet-like activities that concentrated
on knowledge-level thinking (refer to Characters
in
The Sorcerer’s Stone
, http://tinyurl.com/hp2
webquest).
Web 1.5: Interaction
By 1999, blogs, a tool evolved from Web forums
and bulletin boards, rapidly became popular.
Wikis followed soon after. These venues offered
more opportunity for authentic, collaborative in-
teractions. Websites began to contain more in-
teractivity and multimedia. With support from
Verizon, NCTE/IRA began
ReadWriteThink.
org
, publishing classroom-tested, peer-reviewed
lesson plans. Teachers designed literary road
trips using Google maps. Lit trips for titles such
as
Walk Two Moons, Fever 1793, Hana’s Suitcase
,
and
Brothers in Hope: Lost Boys of Sudan
were pub-
lished at www.googlelittrips.org.
YA Lit 1.5
Author websites and blogs added more person-
alized features (photos, fan responses, resources
for teachers, daily life, observations). Some ex-
amples:
Cynthia Kadohata,
Kira-Kira—
www.kira-
kira.us
The Sorcerer’s Stone—
www.scholastic.com/
harrypotter/books/stone
Lois Lowery— http://loislowry.typepad.
com
Blogs about young adult literature featuring book
reviews, interviews, author news:
www.kidlitosphere.org/bloggers
http://professornana.livejournal.com
Teacher blog example:
http://thereadingzone.wordpress.com/
2010/02
Web 2.0: Innovation
In 2004, the advent of social networking, podcast
and video-sharing sites, and the ease of mashups
enriched the multimedia content of the Web and
created a culture of freewheeling, innovative par-
ticipation. Many of these innovative sites offered
special prices and privacy features directed at
K–12 education. Websites increasingly provided
engaging and creative content, including video,
games, podcasts, mashups, and content created
by readers.
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Discussion about books
• Online Book Club—Create with blog, wiki,
or bulletin board;
www.bookdivas.com uses
bulletin board format. Extra features: online
author visits, contests, quizzes, surveys, author
visits. This club features 40 topics, with well
over 1100 posts on the Twilight Saga; the dis-
cussion on Tamora Pierce has over 109 posts,
but over 23,000 views.
• Year-long 8th-grade class wiki—
http://tiny
url.com/wiki8
• Online discussion of book award nominees—
http://nutmegteen2009.sblc.wikispaces.net
• Thoughtful Threads: Sparking Rich Online
Discussions—ReadWriteThink lesson at
http://tinyurl.com/RWTDiscuss
• Literature Circle Roles Reframed: Reading
as a Film Crew—ReadWriteThink lesson at
http://tinyurl.com/RWTFilmCrew
Book reviews
• Student book recommendations including
reading excerpts—http://voicethread.
com/#q+book+talks.b312897.i1659896
• Student video book talks—
http://professor-
marvel.com/podcast/labels/booktalk.html
• YA Reading Challenge—links to booklists
read by registered participants—http://tiny
url.com/jkayebookblog
• Post a book review—
http://teacher.scholastic.
com/activities/swyar/write.asp
• Tips for writing a book review with Rodman
Philbrick—http://teacher.scholastic.com/
writewit/bookrev/index.htm
• Post your virtual bookshelf, with ratings and
reviews, and share with friends—www.
shelfari.com
• Online literary character role-play (Creating
Character Blogs)—ReadWriteThink lesson
plan at http://tinyurl.com/characterblog;
The
Outsiders
—http://theoutsiderssfa.ning.com
Book Trailers
• Resources for Teachers—
www.mcte.org/
journal/mej09/Hayes.pdf
• University-produced K–12 book trailers—
http://digitalbooktalk.com
• 2007 Kirkus Award-winning trailer—
The
Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas
Flamel
at http://secondaryworlds.com/?page_
id=349. (University film students are invited
to enter.)
• Trailers by teens:
Uglies
—www.youtube.com/watch?v=
0wLfJ-ahqNE
Hunger Games
—www.youtube.com/
watch?v=xlr3Y3dj37E (includes a dream
cast)
Lightning Thief
—www.youtube.com/
watch?v=kya9bPGEWXo
Dream cast for
The Alchemyst
and
The
Magician
—http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=hp0hHP9iKjA
• Have You Seen the Movie Yet? Filming a
scene from a favorite moment in the book—
ReadWriteThink lesson at http://tinyurl.
com/RWTFilmCrew
Podcasts
• Author interviews and short story readings:
The Book Report 2.0—Book podcasts by
the students of Robert Rozema at http://
secondaryworlds.com/?page_id=349
Author sites
Many authors have blogs, MySpace, Facebook,
and Twitter sites:
• Kaleb Nation’s blog—
www.kalebnation.com,
a technology-rich, quirky site
• Scott Westerfeld’s blog—
http://scottwester
feld.com/blog
• Laurie Halse Anderson:
• website—
www.writerlady.com
• blog—
http://halseanderson.livejournal.
com
• Facebook—
www.facebook.com/laurie
halseanderson
• Anderson reads a powerful poem she
composed of excerpts from letters about
Speak
—www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic1c_
MaAMOI
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Fan sites
• Twilight
http://bellaandedward.com
www.twilightguy.com—Kaleb Nation
gives a guy’s perspective
• Shiver
http://thecrookedshelf.com
www.shiverguy.com
—another Kaleb
Nation project
Some publisher websites with special features
for teens
• Sourcebook, Inc—
http://teenfire.ning.com
• Candlewick Press—
http://tinyurl.com/
candlewickpress
• Penguin Books—http://yabookscentral.
blogspot.com
• Simon and Schuster—
http://teen.simonand
schuster.com
• Scholastic—Author interviews and readings:
http://tinyurl.com/ScholasticVid
Fanfic—spin-off stories written by fans
• http://www.fanfiction.net/book—Created in
1998, it currently hosts millions of stories,
including
Twilight
(134,927);
Artemis Fowl
(3,836);
Gossip Girl
(6,055);
Goosebumps
(267);
Hunger Games
(859);
Maximum Ride
(9,011)
•
www.waynesthisandthat.com/tensteps.htm—
Tips for writing fanfic
YA novels concerning social technologies
• Very LeFreak
, by Rachel Cohn. Very
LeFreak is a crazed technology addict—
2009 Kirkus Award-winning trailer at www.
youtube.com/watch?v=-OxDa1fl2t0
• Technology Detox videos by Rachel Cohn—
www.youtube.com/user/verylefreak
• ReadWriteThink podcast about novels in the
form of emails, blog entries, instant messages
—http://tinyurl.com/technovels
The key to the success of YA Lit 2.0 activities
in classrooms is not the technology alone; if the
activities are meaningful, authentic, and socially
engaging, such as the activities cited here, school-
work and out-of-school activity will morph to-
gether. Now that’s what I call a shift!
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t e c h n o l o g y t o o l k i t | Making the Shift: YA Lit 2.0page50Voices from the Middle, Volume 17 Number 4, May 2010Sandy Hayes, editort e c h n o l o g y t o o l k i tMaking the Shift: YA Lit 2.0Web 1.0: InformationThe early Internet revolutionized teachers’ ac-cess to information and to each other. In 1995, Kathy Schrock began her Guide for Educators website, an extensive hotlist of links to education resources. In the same year, Bernie Dodge pub-lished his WebQuest website, sending students out into the Internet on investigative missions. YA Lit 1.0Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Site, which made its debut in 1996, provided English teach-ers primarily with lesson plans or extensive Cliff Notes™-style information on authors and young adult literature (for example, Cynthia Kado- hata, Kira-Kira, www.carolhurst.com/titles/kira-kira.html). Official author websites were primar-ily academic and impersonal (see Lois Lowery, http://tinyurl.com/llowry). For its time, Web-Quests were inno-vative, adding opportunities for collaboration while learning Web navigation and website evaluation. But by today’s standards, many of the early WebQuests were highly struc-tured worksheet-like activities that concentrated on knowledge-level thinking (refer to Characters in The Sorcerer’s Stone, http://tinyurl.com/hp2 webquest).Web 1.5: InteractionBy 1999, blogs, a tool evolved from Web forums and bulletin boards, rapidly became popular. Wikis followed soon after. These venues offered more opportunity for authentic, collaborative in-teractions. Websites began to contain more in-teractivity and multimedia. With support from Verizon, NCTE/IRA began ReadWriteThink.org, publishing classroom-tested, peer-reviewed lesson plans. Teachers designed literary road trips using Google maps. Lit trips for titles such as Walk Two Moons, Fever 1793, Hana’s Suitcase, and Brothers in Hope: Lost Boys of Sudan were pub-lished at www.googlelittrips.org.YA Lit 1.5 Author websites and blogs added more person-alized features (photos, fan responses, resources for teachers, daily life, observations). Some ex-amples: Cynthia Kadohata, Kira-Kira—www.kira-kira.us The Sorcerer’s Stone—www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/books/stone Lois Lowery— http://loislowry.typepad.comBlogs about young adult literature featuring book reviews, interviews, author news: www.kidlitosphere.org/bloggershttp://professornana.livejournal.comTeacher blog example: http://thereadingzone.wordpress.com/ 2010/02Web 2.0: InnovationIn 2004, the advent of social networking, podcast and video-sharing sites, and the ease of mashups enriched the multimedia content of the Web and created a culture of freewheeling, innovative par-ticipation. Many of these innovative sites offered special prices and privacy features directed at K–12 education. Websites increasingly provided engaging and creative content, including video, games, podcasts, mashups, and content created by readers. m50-52_May10_VM.indd 503/30/10 5:02 PM
page51Voices from the Middle, Volume 17 Number 4, May 2010t e c h n o l o g y t o o l k i t | Making the Shift: YA Lit 2.0YA Lit 2.0Discussion about books• Online Book Club—Create with blog, wiki, or bulletin board; www.bookdivas.com uses bulletin board format. Extra features: online author visits, contests, quizzes, surveys, author visits. This club features 40 topics, with well over 1100 posts on the Twilight Saga; the dis-cussion on Tamora Pierce has over 109 posts, but over 23,000 views.• Year-long 8th-grade class wiki—http://tinyurl.com/wiki8• Online discussion of book award nominees—http://nutmegteen2009.sblc.wikispaces.net• Thoughtful Threads: Sparking Rich Online Discussions—ReadWriteThink lesson at http://tinyurl.com/RWTDiscuss • Literature Circle Roles Reframed: Reading as a Film Crew—ReadWriteThink lesson at http://tinyurl.com/RWTFilmCrewBook reviews• Student book recommendations including reading excerpts—http://voicethread.com/#q+book+talks.b312897.i1659896• Student video book talks—http://professor-marvel.com/podcast/labels/booktalk.html• YA Reading Challenge—links to booklists read by registered participants—http://tinyurl.com/jkayebookblog• Post a book review—http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/swyar/write.asp• Tips for writing a book review with Rodman Philbrick—http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/bookrev/index.htm• Post your virtual bookshelf, with ratings and reviews, and share with friends—www. shelfari.com• Online literary character role-play (Creating Character Blogs)—ReadWriteThink lesson plan at http://tinyurl.com/characterblog; The Outsiders—http://theoutsiderssfa.ning.comBook Trailers• Resources for Teachers—www.mcte.org/journal/mej09/Hayes.pdf• University-produced K–12 book trailers—http://digitalbooktalk.com• 2007 Kirkus Award-winning trailer—The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel at http://secondaryworlds.com/?page_id=349. (University film students are invited to enter.)• Trailers by teens:Uglies—www.youtube.com/watch?v= 0wLfJ-ahqNEHunger Games—www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlr3Y3dj37E (includes a dream cast)Lightning Thief—www.youtube.com/watch?v=kya9bPGEWXoDream cast for The Alchemyst and The Magician—http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hp0hHP9iKjA• Have You Seen the Movie Yet? Filming a scene from a favorite moment in the book—ReadWriteThink lesson at http://tinyurl.com/RWTFilmCrewPodcasts• Author interviews and short story readings: The Book Report 2.0—Book podcasts by the students of Robert Rozema at http://secondaryworlds.com/?page_id=349Author sites Many authors have blogs, MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter sites:• Kaleb Nation’s blog—www.kalebnation.com, a technology-rich, quirky site• Scott Westerfeld’s blog—http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog• Laurie Halse Anderson: • website—www.writerlady.com • blog—http://halseanderson.livejournal.com • Facebook—www.facebook.com/lauriehalseanderson • Anderson reads a powerful poem she composed of excerpts from letters about Speak—www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic1c_MaAMOIm50-52_May10_VM.indd 513/30/10 5:02 PM
t e c h n o l o g y t o o l k i t | Making the Shift: YA Lit 2.0page52Voices from the Middle, Volume 17 Number 4, May 2010Fan sites• Twilight http://bellaandedward.comwww.twilightguy.com—Kaleb Nation gives a guy’s perspective • Shiverhttp://thecrookedshelf.comwww.shiverguy.com —another Kaleb Nation project Some publisher websites with special features for teens• Sourcebook, Inc—http://teenfire.ning.com • Candlewick Press—http://tinyurl.com/candlewickpress• Penguin Books—http://yabookscentral.blogspot.com• Simon and Schuster—http://teen.simonandschuster.com• Scholastic—Author interviews and readings: http://tinyurl.com/ScholasticVidFanfic—spin-off stories written by fans• http://www.fanfiction.net/book—Created in 1998, it currently hosts millions of stories, including Twilight (134,927); Artemis Fowl(3,836); Gossip Girl (6,055); Goosebumps (267); Hunger Games (859); Maximum Ride (9,011)• www.waynesthisandthat.com/tensteps.htm—Tips for writing fanficYA novels concerning social technologies• Very LeFreak, by Rachel Cohn. Very LeFreak is a crazed technology addict—2009 Kirkus Award-winning trailer at www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OxDa1fl2t0• Technology Detox videos by Rachel Cohn—www.youtube.com/user/verylefreak• ReadWriteThink podcast about novels in the form of emails, blog entries, instant messages —http://tinyurl.com/technovelsThe key to the success of YA Lit 2.0 activities in classrooms is not the technology alone; if the activities are meaningful, authentic, and socially engaging, such as the activities cited here, school-work and out-of-school activity will morph to-gether. Now that’s what I call a shift!m50-52_May10_VM.indd 523/30/10 5:02 PM
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