LIBR262: Resources for Young Adults

San Jose State University

David V. Loertscher

 

 

This site is moving because the course number is changing.  For Fall 2008 LIBR 265 Materials for Young Adults go to: http://libr265.pbwiki.com

 

SPRING 2008 Greensheet - The official guide to this class

This summer will be a very high-tech experience, all online in mostly web 2. 0 applications.

  • We will MEET on Elluminate each Monday evening (check SLISWEB.sjsu.edu for times)
  • We will NETWORK on several Web 2.0 technologies and on our Ning: http://libr262.ning.com
  • We will BLOG all we read, view and hear on our Ning.
  • We will continue to BUILD a great bibliography of professional resouces on our wiki at: YA Literature and Multimedia Wiki
  • We will CONTRIBUTE book reviews on the wiki at: YA Reviews Wiki
  • We will PRODUCE podcasts of booktalks and upload them to http://YouTube.com
  • We will continue to BUILD  and edit Knowville, a world-wide literacy challenge at http://knowville.org
  • We will IMPROVE Knowville into the world of Second Life

It will be an exciting ride!

 

Check out all the assignments at: Assignments

And, here are the major topics covere in the class:

  • Topic 1: Getting Acquainted with Elluminate and Our Class. Intro
  • Topic 2: Out of Childhood, into Tweens. Child Lit
  • Topic 3: How It All Got Started. YA Lit History
  • Topic 4: The Juvenile Novel. Juvenile Novel
  • Topic 5: Pop Culture. Trash (Pop Culture)
  • Topic 6: It's Very Personal. (Fact and Fiction) Personal
  • Topic 7: Give Me Real History, but, I Might Want It Fictionalized. History
  • Topic 8: Give Me Real People. Biography
  • Topic 9: I Wish I Were a Scientist... Science
  • Topic 10: ... But I'll Take Science Fiction... ScislashFi?
  • Topic 11: ... or Fantasy Fantasy
  • Topic 12: Culture Is a Matter of Taste...  Culture
  • Topic 13: ... in a Multicultural World. Multicultural
  • Topic 14: Move Over Adults, We're Interested in Your Stuff Too... Adult Stuff
  • Topic 15: ...But We're Not Sure We Like the World We've Inherited.Modern World
  • Topic 16: We Need Information and We Need It Now! Reference
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WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES WE WILL LEARN: 

Making the Web your own-Creating your space:

iGoogle, Ning, Facebook or MySpace

Sharing your message:

Blogs, GoogleReader, GoodReads or Library Thing or Voki

 A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words:

iPhoto, Flickr.com or Picassa or LineRider or Comic Life 

Atomic Learning

Sounds Good to Me:

Podcasts, Garage Band

Move Madness:

Uth TV    http://www.uthstudios.org/umedia/show/11811/; You Tube; Teacher Tube; Blip.Tv

We can't help but learn:

Chorewars, GoogleDocs and Spreadsheets, Second Life, Whyville

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