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It’s also a cultural climate where audiences are increasingly used to thinking of books as media companions — popular film series like Harry Potter, Twilight and The Hunger Games, or TV series like Game of Thrones, all feel richer to fans if they read the books as well as enjoy the films.

Designers of text-based [...]Jerz's Literacy Weblog

Seton Hill new media journalism graduate Chris Ulicne, who now works for the Latrobe Bulletin, wrote a really nice feature on Stage Right (local theatre company and school for the performing arts). The full text of the article is not online, but this image is from the PDF of the front page (available through the [...]Jerz's Literacy Weblog

Powerful story.

I didn’t trust the principal to help and my son didn’t trust me; I called the police instead.

The officer showed up at the school, but the principal met him at the office. He told the cop it was his school, he would handle it. The principal called my son and the boy [...]Jerz's Literacy Weblog

A colleague just sent me this kind note, which supplies a very-welcome jolt of enthusiasm as the semester winds down:

This is probably going to be the best written paper I’ve published, and I could not have done it without your help! (In part because your suggestions make so much sense that it’s making me [...]Jerz's Literacy Weblog

Humanities students are not used to failure. They want to get it right the first time. When they are new to the game, they want to get good grades on what are essentially first drafts. Once they learn how much work it is to write and edit a really good essay, their goals shift—from getting [...]Jerz's Literacy Weblog

I already felt fairly independent from my parents before I went off to college, as my older siblings were both good students who did not get into any trouble, so because I kept bringing home good grades my parents let me be very independent. I had (and still have) a good relationship with my parents, [...]Jerz's Literacy Weblog

I’m not giving any final exams this term.

On the one hand, we tell students to value learning for learning’s sake; on the other, we tell students they’d better know this or that, or they’d better take notes, or they’d better read the book, because it will be on the next exam; if they don’t [...]Jerz's Literacy Weblog

I love a good infographic.

HubbleSite – NewsCenter – Hubble to Use Moon as Mirror to See Venus Transit (05/04/2012) – Release Images.

Pittsburgh’s Trib Inadvertently Advises Readers to Shit Themselves.

The copy I picked up has been fixed.