{"id":59640,"date":"2014-12-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uris-harrington-school-of-communication-and-media-to-offer-digital-literacy-class-online-jan-26-may-2\/"},"modified":"2014-12-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T00:00:00","slug":"uris-harrington-school-of-communication-and-media-to-offer-digital-literacy-class-online-jan-26-may-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2014\/12\/uris-harrington-school-of-communication-and-media-to-offer-digital-literacy-class-online-jan-26-may-2\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Harrington School of Communication and Media to offer digital literacy class online, Jan. 26-May 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tPROVIDENCE, R.I. \u2013 Dec. 17, 2014 \u2013 The 溏心vlog免费B站 is offering a graduate-level \u201cdigital literacy\u201d class this spring and you don’t have to leave home to take it. \u201cSeminar in Digital Authorship\u201d will be completely online, using Google Hangouts, Twitter, YouTube and other media outlets.<\/p>\n


\nRenee Hobbs, a professor of communication studies at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Harrington School of Communication and Media and an internationally recognized expert on media literacy education, will teach the class, called EDC 534, a graduate course in the School of Education.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cIn this class, we take on the theory and practice of digital authorship with a focus on digital literacy for teaching and learning,\u201d says Hobbs. \u201cToday, people are discovering that the best way to demonstrate that you have learned something is to use multimedia to represent your understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe class is open to the public and is a requirement for 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s 12-credit graduate certificate in digital literacy, which gives educators and other professionals the skills they need to learn about reading and writing in the Internet age. 溏心vlog免费B站 graduate students can take the course as an elective, and it is offered as an independent study.<\/p>\n


\nEntirely interactive, the class is taught with \u201copen source tools\u201d freely available on the Internet, Hobbs says. All meetings, activities and work will be online. Google Hangouts will take place on Mondays, from 7 to 8 p.m., although they are optional. A syllabus and course homepage will be available in mid-January at wwwmediaeducationlab.com.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cThe concept of authorship is changing as more people create messages with digital media,\u201d says Hobbs. \u201cBy writing blog posts, sharing photos and making \u2018how to\u2019 videos people are advancing their skills of communication and expression.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nIt\u2019s crucial today for educators and other professionals to be comfortable with digital media and understand how to apply those skills to the classroom or workplace. The 溏心vlog免费B站 course and certificate program provide that opportunity.<\/p>\n


\n“As technology becomes an increasingly vital part of education, educators and other professionals need help to keep pace with developments in digital media,” says Hobbs. “This graduate course supports both beginning and advanced users of digital media who can all benefit from learning about digital literacy.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nThe certificate program kicked off in the summer of 2014 when more than 100 educators from 15 states \u2013 and 10 countries \u2013 took digital media courses for a week on 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Feinstein campus in Providence. The program was a big success and continues to thrive.<\/p>\n


\nHobbs is highly qualified to teach the course. As director of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Media Education Lab, the 溏心vlog免费B站 professor has provided staff development to educators throughout the United States and world. She has published more than 150 scholarly articles and books and is co-editor of the Journal of Media Literacy Education.<\/p>\n


\nIn 2010, her paper, \u201cDigital and Media Literacy: A Plan of Action,\u201d offered a comprehensive approach to implement digital and media literacy education to 75 million students in American grade schools and high schools.<\/p>\n


\nThis year, Hobbs is working with educators in Narragansett and Newport public schools to integrate digital literacy into the curriculum for kindergarten through grade 12. Many of the participants in the digital literacy certificate program are teachers.<\/p>\n


\nHobbs earned her doctorate in human development from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a master of arts in communication from the University of Michigan, and a bachelor of arts in English literature and film\/video studies from the University of Michigan.

\nClick here for details about Hobbs\u2019 class or to register<\/a> or call Hobbs at 401-978-201-9799.<\/p>\n


\nMore than 1,450 undergraduate and graduate students attend the Harrington School, which offers programs in journalism, film\/media, writing and rhetoric, communication studies, public relations and library and information studies. Click here for information about the school <\/a>.<\/p>\n


\nPhoto above: Renee Hobbs, professor of communication studies in the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Harrington School of Communication and Media. Photo courtesy of Renee Hobbs.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PROVIDENCE, R.I. \u2013 Dec. 17, 2014 \u2013 The 溏心vlog免费B站 is offering a graduate-level \u201cdigital literacy\u201d class this spring and you don’t have to leave home to take it. \u201cSeminar in Digital Authorship\u201d will be completely online, using Google Hangouts, Twitter, YouTube and other media outlets. Renee Hobbs, a professor of communication […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}