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What is New Media Narratives A new media narrative can be categorized as a digital story, an annotated presentation, or a multimedia slideshow. The “new media” refers to the method of consumption, production and publication, while the “narrative” focuses on the message, the content, the purpose, and/or the experience of the author. Learning activities developed around the production and publication of new media...

Salman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script — give students video lectures to watch at home, and do “homework” in the classroom with the teacher available to...

The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative display encourages exploration and learning. You’ll understand language in a powerful new way. Say you have a meaning in mind, like “happy.” The VT helps you find related words, from “cheerful” to “euphoric.” The best part is the VT works like...

It’s hard to believe YouTube is only five years old. How ever did we procrastinate without videos of babies break-dancing and chumps wiping out on treadmills? Then again, it’s also remarkable that the video-sharing site has lasted this long: five minutes is a more typical Internet life span. But YouTube — the world’s third most visited website after Google and Facebook — shows no signs of slowing down. The site marked...