What assumptions do we make about student's media literacy? Here are a few ideas to provide a basic 'level set' for students who will be engaging with the internet for their coursework.

1. Coastal Bend College & University of Houston-Victoria Distance Learning Academies Web Literacy Basics Michael Weston 2010 Title V Summer Academy

2. Why? “…educators, policy makers, employers, and the public at large, must now recognize that <the> new literacies of the Internet will be central to the most important literacy and learning issues of our generation.” - Coiro, Julie. Handbook of Research on New Literacies. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates/Taylor & Francis Group, 2008. Print.

3. Search Engines

4. Search Engines Garbage in, garbage out Paid results Popular results Academic vs. non-academic

5. Search Engines

6. Credibility

7. Credibility

8. Academic Credibility?

9. Search Engines

10. Content Consumption News Entertainment Education Television Film Music

11. Content Production Blogs Wikis Education Websites Discussion Boards Social Networking sites Audio and Video sharing

12. The Long Tail or just stale? “Often presented as a phenomenon of interest primarily to mass market retailers and web-based businesses, the Long Tail also has implications for the producers of content, especially those whose products could not — for economic reasons — find a place in pre-Internet information distribution channels controlled by book publishers, record companies, movie studios, and television networks. Looked at from the producers' side, the Long Tail has made possible a flowering of creativity across all fields of human endeavour. One example of this is YouTube, where thousands of diverse videos — whose content, production value or lack of popularity make them inappropriate for traditional television — are easily accessible to a wide range of viewers.” -Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tail

13. Intellectual Property Fair Use? Citation Repurposing of Content Copyright Infringement

14. Security Phishing Trojans Bogus sites Pop-ups

15. A new pattern of communication and influence built around social networks and participatory media: The four-step flow of information attention acquisition assessment action 15

16. How do you get students’ attention? 16

17. How do you help students acquire information? 17

18. How do you help students assess information? 18

19. How do you help students act on information? 19