Hypermedia Technology Resources

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Resources For Hypermedia Authoring, Critical Literacy Education, and Technology Integration Across the Curriculum

International Hypermedia Critical Literacy Projects:
- Pedagogy for InterCultural Critical Literacy Education: PICCLE Project, 2003-05 connecting students from PSU, St. Cloud State University, Norfolk State University, School for Education & Communication (HLK-Sweden), Vaasa University (Finland), and Keil University for Applied Sciences (Germany)
- Cross-Cultural Web-Site Project on novel In Country, 2002: PSU, HLK-Sweden, Woosong University-Korea, and Norfolk State University
- English Vocabulary, 2001: Halmstad University, Sweden
- Pictures and Poems, 2001: HLK, Jonkoping University, Sweden
- Korean Literacy Practices, 2001: Woosong University, South Korea
- Home Culture Websites: 2004 English as a Second Language Students
- Audio Projects : 2005 English as a Second Language Students American History Radio podcast projects
7-12 English Classroom and University English Teacher Education Projects:
- Ninth Grade English Classroom Pages, 1995-95 school year
- Multiliteracy Video Critique: 1998 Graduate Teacher Education Students
- The Shipping News: 1999 US and Canadian Teacher Education Students
- Personal Websites by 9-12 Special Education Students
- Teen Issues: 1999 Ninth Grade English PDS project
- Fahrenheit 451: 2000 Tenth Grade English PDS project
- Community Movies: 2004 Eighth Grade English PDS project
- Video Vocabulary: 2006 Tenth Grade English students
- Podcasting Website: Literature, Essay, and Vocabulary podcasts
Students' Individual Projects:
- Websites and Video Projects based on works of Literature
- The Beauty Myth, by Michelle, completed over 11th & 12th grade
- Girls Hypermedia Camp 1996, directed by Bobbi Hammett
- Puerto Rican Stories Project, 2001, by William
- Technology, Humanities, and the Enviroment Option, 1996, SCASD student projects.

Resources for Inquiry Based English Teacher Education

Secondary English Professional Development School 1998-2005
Collaboration with State College Area School District and Penn State University
- The Role of Inquiry in the PDS, (excerpted from the main PDS website above) includes intern video inquiries
Website on Social Worlds Curriculum for Inquiry-Based English Education: Engaging Students in Life and Literature, by Beach & Myers (2001), Teachers College Press.
Spring 1998 Field Experience Inquiries
Units for English Classrooms, written by Preservice English Teachers in English Education LLED classes
Introduction to Hypermedia Authoring in Response to Literature and Life: introduction with links to examples of hypermedia activities for the classroom
Research on Hypermedia Authoring: small group and class projects in English education

Resources for Technology Integration Across the Curriculum

Projects by Teachers in the Summer Technology Integration Courses: From 1995 to present
Projects by Teachers in One Day Workshops/Conference Workshops:
- New York State Reading Assoication 1999 Conference: Bluebonnet
- New York State Reading Assoication 1998 Conference: Poetry and The Door
- Elementary Education students explore Shoes

Publications and Presentations on Hypermedia Authoring

Critical Epistemologies and Practices for New Media Literacies, 2009 Summer Conference on English Education: 21st Century Literacy Strand (This brief pdf document outlines an argument for how technology tools can open up the negotation of symbolic meaning about ideas and identities, and transform postivist school symbolic practices as students create membership in dynamic critical semiotic communities.)
Responding to Literature through ICT - Multimodal Digital, National Association of Teachers of English, Warwick University, April 4, 2008
Constructing EFL Learners as Intercultural Speakers through digital technologies, Keynote paper presented at "New Trends in English Teaching in the Globalized Age," Kookmin University 60th Anniversary, Seoul, Korea, October 20, 2006.
The Semiotics of Critical Literacy, 2005 Indiana University Harste-Burke Researching and Teaching in these Critical Times Conference (powerpoint in which movies only work in Explorer)
Using technology tools to support learning in the English language arts, 2003 CITE Journal Technology Leadership Award for Exemplary Use of Technology to Teach Content in a Methods Course, Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education.
The Benefits of Student Hypermedia Authoring Keynote paper presented at the Korean Association of Multimedia Assisted Language Learning Seoul, Korea October 3, 2002

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Jamie Myers
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