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= Welcome to NewLits.org =
 * NewLits.org** is a wiki space created to collaboratively develop a rich range of specialist resources for middle school language arts/literacy educators (typically Grades 5 to 8). These resources focus variously and broadly on new literacies and digital technologies.

“**New literacies**” in the sense used here are literacy practices mediated by digital technologies (e.g., blogging, gaming, social networking), or that are newly recognized as literacies due to their increased ubiquity as a practice (e.g., fanfiction writing, live action role-plays) More...

Contributing Authors
A key component of this wiki is a set of commissioned papers from authorities within the field of new literacies. These papers can be access here:
 * James Paul Gee: **Lucidly Functional Language**
 * Donna Alvermann: **A Hybrid Approach to Content Area Literacy**
 * Jabari Mahiri: **Digi-Pop: New Literacies Need New Learning**
 * Michael Hoechsmann: **From the Classroom to the Newsroom: Teaching Media Writing**
 * Rebecca Black: **Publishing and Participating in Online Affinity Spaces**
 * Jon Callow: **As I see it: Integrating viewing across the curriculum**
 * Glynda Hull and Juliana Avila: **Narrative and digital storytelling**
 * Chris Shamburg: **Podcasting and Fluency**
 * Lalitha Vasudevan: Media and youth literacy: Addressing the needs of struggling learners in middle school classrooms
 * Laura Nicosia: **Adolescent Literature and Second Life: Teaching Young Adult Texts in the Digital World**

=Finding your way around this wiki= We're still in the process of organizing the menu at the left to make it easier to find things; for now, this listing below will help get you started. Do feel free to register and edit/add content to this wiki!
 * Classroom-based accounts of new literacies in action**
 * Extreme Reading in the Middle Grades

Thematic approaches to using new literacies in classrooms

 * Witness to History

Resource and how-to pages

 * Making movies in Second Life
 * Photoshopping
 * Stop Motion Animation
 * Teaching grammar in contextualized ways
 * Teaching procedural texts
 * Teaching with graphic novels
 * Games and literacy learning
 * Free Resources

Get Involved
One way of becoming involved in this wiki is to click on the red "discussion" tab at the top right-hand corner of each screen and have your say in response to what you've read/viewed/listened to on that page (just click on the tab and you're away).

Copyright
The materials on this wiki have a "[|creative commons]" license (i.e., [|Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States] for details) which means you can use all the materials on this wiki freely for non-profit purposes and with proper attribution to the original creator of the resource(s).

NewLits.org Contacts
//If you would like to know more about this project, or have suggestions to make, here is someone to contact.//
 * Michele Knobel