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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Kevin Kelly describes an interesting view of the future of moving images - that we will be able to search them the way we now search text, and manipulate them the way we now use words to write an article, poem or list post. We will create a video by pulling images (a roof, a chimney, a dog, a face) from a library in the same way we select words to describe a scene, and set them in motion
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">He also mentions that one of the areas that has really developed moving image literacy is porn sites, that you can see a "summary" of a video by viewing a series of key frames that gives you the gist of a 2 hr movie in less than a minute. (Unfortunately, can't research this for fear of getting icky spam.) It would be great to have this for mainstream movies!</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Will we be able to hyperlink, footnote, and annotate movies the way we now do text? He predicts that this is only a few years in the future. Right now you can annotate photos on Flickr by drawing a box on an image and adding your comments as a rollover. And there are sites that allow you to add captions, thought bubbles, and other commentary to video. </font><a href="http://www.otan.us/browse/index.cfm?fuseaction=browse&catid=10722" target="_blank" title="Here"><font face="Arial" size="+0" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;">Here</font></a><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"> is a description of how to do this using Bubbleply, with suggestions for the classroom.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Several years ago I visited an adult ed program where a young man was studying for his high school diploma. His knowledge of US History was not so great, but as we talked with him we discovered that he created and ran a gaming Web site with chat, discussion boards, and other features that got over 3,000 visits per day. That's digital literacy! It's fun to imagine that video will become equally accessible.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Marian Thacher</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><b>The Technology and Literacy Discussion List <<a href="mailto:technology@nifl.gov">technology@nifl.gov</a>> on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 at 5:13 AM -0800 wrote:</b></font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Colleagues,</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Can you read fluently? Of course, you say. But maybe not. Although I </font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">meant, can you read text, I also meant, can you read screens? Very </font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">few of us can. Some of our younger students are more screen literate </font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">than we are. Is screen literacy important? If getting to meaning, and </font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">to the truth, is important, screen literacy is as important -- some </font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">would argue more important -- than reading. However, "If text </font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">literacy meant being able to parse and manipulate texts, then the new </font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">screen fluency means being able to parse and manipulate moving images </font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">with the same ease. But so far, these 'reader' tools of visuality </font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">have not made their way to the masses."</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">I hope I have tantalized you to read this short and fascinating </font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">article on screen literacy by New York Times writer Kevin Kelley:</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23wwln-future-t.html?_r=1" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/magazine/23wwln-future-t.html?_r=1</a></font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">I would also like to invite you, when you read -- or see -- something </font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">that we in technology and literacy might be interested in, to post </font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">the URL to this discussion list. If we are a community of practice on </font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">this discussion list, then let's help each other to learn new </font></span></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">things, think in new ways.</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Your thoughts on the article?</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">David J. Rosen</font></span></div>
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