Monthly Archives: October 2017

I am a long-standing fan of this comics series, and I’ve been teaching the first volume  in my young adult literature class for years. It works perfectly in the unit on Independence. So I am very excited to see how it functions as an adaptation. (And it makes me a little sad that I’ll be teaching media literacy instead of  young adult lit in the spring.)

I have a real love-hate reaction to this article. I love the appreciation for D&D and all it brings to the people who play it. But I utterly despise the techno-phobic rhetoric, the idea that the game is valuable because it can fix your kids and/or teach them something, and the idea that games are best worthy of praise when they are pro-social and offline.

Thank you, Hank.

PenguinTeen tweets a link to an online quiz about John Green’s books – which is intriguingly called “Are you the Ultimate John Green Fan?”.
John Green shares that tweet, and his imperfect results on the quiz, on his Facebook page.

When my dissertation talks about using multiple social media platforms to engage readers, this is what I am talking about. Also, the problematic relationship between deep knowledge, engaged reading, and the definition of a fan.

Offered without comment for now. I will wait until I have an opportunity to share it with my media literacy for youth students next semester.