This document discusses new media literacy skills and how they can be used to understand complex social issues like bullying. It provides examples of online games, simulations, and activities that students can do to explore the roles of bullies, victims, and bystanders. Some of the suggested activities involve role-playing the different characters, creating comics or IM conversations between characters, using tools like Wordle to analyze the characters, and making a wiki to discuss experiences with bullying. The goal is for students to apply skills like collaboration, negotiation, and transmedia navigation to gain perspective on an issue.

1. New Media Literacy Bullying Challenge Robin Corbeil Technology Leaders Cohort

2. Skills Appropriation-the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content Judgment-the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources Negotiation-the ability to travel across diverse, communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping the following alternatives TransmediaNavigation- the ability to follow stories and information across multiple modalities Collective Intelligence-the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal Performance-the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery Play-the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving Simulation-the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes

3. How Can We Use New Media Skills In Our Classroom to understand Complex Social Issues

4. Bullying Quiz http://www.wiredkids.org/ktt_universal/games/javascript/cyberbullying_quiz_1/index.html http://208.112.86.5/poll/index.cfm

5. Play/SimulationPlay-the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving Games- http://www.bam.gov/sub_yourlife/yourlife_bullyroundup_game.html http://www.mcgruff.org/Games/cyberbully.php http://www.netsmartzkids.org/indexFL.htm

6. Create a table that identifies the Role of Bully, Victim, and Bystander in a Movie or Book

7. Focus On Group Bullying

8. Media ActivitiesTransmedia Navigation, Appropriation Negotiation, Judgment Look at the bullying picture and think about how the different people ended up in their roles of Bully, Victim, and Spectator (expand beyond the image)

9. Name Each Character and Create a Personality Betty the Bully Vicky The Victim Sara & Sam Spectators

10. What is their story? Sally & Sara Spectator Betty Bully Vicky Victim

11. Create A Cartoon by giving words or thought to each character Performance-the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery I am glad I left my lunch on the bus This is great Sara and Sam think I am soo cool I told my Mom not make my lunch I Kinda Like Wheat bread on My sandwich Wheat Bread Woes

12. Create an IM or Text conversation between two of the charactersCollective Intelligence and Negotiation Sara- Hi Vicky Vicky-Hi Sara Vicky – How come your were so mean today at school? Sara- I was just kidding can’t you take a joke Betty does that with everyone Vicky- Oh yah I knew you were just going along with Betty and you didn’t think I was a looser for bring my own lunch Sara- Yah just buy hot lunch from now on and she won’t bother you K

13. Use Wordle.net to Create a image that describes each character (Does the image have more power than the words alone would?) Visualization and collective Intelligence

14. Create a Voki/Avitar Around one of the CharactersPerformance-the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation and discovery Using Voki in education http://www.squidoo.com/voki http://www.voki.com/create.php

15. Paint.netAppropriation-the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content Use Photo editing software to change the setting of one of the character’s to give insight on how they ended up in that place. Make a collage of images to show insight into what led up to that character’s actions.

16. Pbwiki.comCollective Intelligence-the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal or strengthening of understanding in this case Create a blog where students use the voice of one of the character's to create a back story for the image and respond to others works A back story explains more about the character Ex the family, school, or social background Create a blog about bulling in their lives and respond to others experiences and feelings as a result of that experience

17. Anti-Bullying Videos(I talk to students about what makes these videos powerful) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km98uiJFHXQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNeO3dCV8y4&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j6YA03hm4k&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWJut7KQhI4&feature=related