Create to Learn
Introduction to Digital Literacy
Renee Hobbs
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Create to Learn
Introduction to Digital Literacy
Renee Hobbs
About This Book
Want to learn something well? Make media to advance knowledge and gain new ideas.
You don't have to be a communication professional to create to learn. Today, with free and low-cost digital tools, everyone can compose videos, blogs and websites, remixes, podcasts, screencasts, infographics, animation, remixes and more. By creating to learn, people internalize ideas and express information creatively in ways that may inspire others.
Create to Learn is a ground-breaking book that helps learners create multimedia texts as they develop both critical thinking and communication skills. Written by Renee Hobbs, one of the foremost experts in media literacy, this book introduces a wide range of conceptual principles at the heart of multimedia composition and digital pedagogy. Its approach is useful for anyone who sees the profound educational value of creating multimedia projects in an increasingly digital and connected world.
Students will become skilled multimedia communicators by learning how to gather information, generate ideas, and develop media projects using contemporary digital tools and platforms. Illustrative examples from a variety of student-produced multimedia projects along with helpful online materials offer support and boost confidence.
Create to Learn will help anyone make informed and strategic communication decisions as they create media for any academic, personal or professional project.
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Information
Part I
Developing a Communication Strategy
Overview of Part I
Chapter 1 | Create to Learn |
Consider your identity as a digital author | |
Chapter 2 | Getting Creative |
Develop a creative brief | |
Chapter 3 | Decisions, Decisions |
Build a communication strategy | |
Chapter 4 | Accessing and Analyzing Ideas |
Critically analyze a mentor text | |
Chapter 5 | Creating Ideas |
Create a scope of work plan and produce work | |
Chapter 6 | Reflecting and Taking Action |
Use the power of information and expression to make a difference |
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Create to Learn
KEY IDEAS
- Attention management. The ability to identify, prioritize, and manage in an increasingly dense information landscape involves strategic decision making about how and when to focus oneâs attention.
- Communication. The ability to use effective strategies for interacting and sharing information and ideas with others requires continual awareness of how, when, why, and what to communicate. This includes creating digital and multimedia documents, using language, image, sound, and interactive media effectively to express and share ideas.
- Digital etiquette. Awareness of privacy, legal, and security issues is essential to be effective in the workplace. The ability to use appropriate codes and conventions for communicating via eâmail, video conference, text message, and telephone also requires sensitivity to the ethical dimensions of social relationships in a networked age.
- Search and research. The ability to gather information and sift through it to identify whatâs relevant, trustworthy, and reliable demands a strong understanding of how information and authority is constructed in particular contexts. Tenacity and intellectual curiosity are a must in the search and research process.
- Collaboration and leadership. When people work together, they do many different things all working at the same time towards a shared and common goal. Skills of coordinating projects and organizing group activity are vital competencies for both workplace and citizenship in a democratic society.2