Playing with Media: simple ideas for powerful sharing

by Wesley Fryer, Rachel Fryer

We need to play with media to become more effective communicators. As children, we learn to progressively make sense of our confusing world through play. The same dynamics apply to us as adults communicating with new and different media forms. The goal of this book is to inspire and empower you, as a creative person, to expand your personal senses of digital literacy and digital agency as a multimedia communicator. As you learn to play with digital text, images, audio and video, you will learn to more creatively and flexibly communicate with a wider menu of media. While this book is written primarily for educators, anyone is welcome as a reader who is interested in learning how to more flexibly, creatively, and effectively communicate with media in our digital age. Copyright, fair use, and intellectual property guidelines for media creators are also addressed.

Chapters in the book include:

- Why?
- Digital Text
- Audio
- Copyright & Fair Use
- Images
- Video
- Show & Tell

Appendices include:
- Balanced Content Filtering in Schools
- Backchannels and eBooks
- Audio Software & Lecturecasts
- Guidelines & Tips for Downloading Web Video
- iMovie for iPad
- Thoughts on the Attention Economy

Referenced videos and updated resources relating to this book are available on www.playingwithmedia.com. The entire chapter on Copyright & Fair Use is available free online on:
http://playingwithmedia.com/pages/cop...

Follow the author, Wesley Fryer, on Twitter on http://twitter.com/wfryer. Read Wesley's blog, "Moving at the Speed of Creativity," on http://www.speedofcreativity.org.

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First published July 25, 2011

Reviews

[Fran Darling · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent look at all ways of creating and sharing educational content. Wes Fryer is an expert at using and sharing ideas and information through blogging and podcasting socially. His chapters offer a full list of resources, practical examples and how to's for all aspects of media creation to promote educational principals and practice.

[Alice · Rating 5 out of 5]

Here's my review: http://alicebarr.blogspot.com/2011/08...

[Meg · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hands-on ideas for embedding technology-rich learning into your teaching. Highly recommended.