

For Abescon (NJ) school district’s library media specialist, Rose Hagar, working transmedia into her after-school book club means her middle schoolers expand on the book’s content. It has features such as a soundtrack, illustrations, a companion Minecraft “build-your-own-world” application, and Danielle’s journal.Įngaging in transmedia storytelling can mean reading books in Scholastic’s wildly popular “39 Clues” series, which have sold 22 million copies worldwide since the first one came out in 2008, and then playing an interactive “39 Clues” online game. Buchanan’s Gift (Open Road Integrated Media, 2012), a multimedia young adult novel about Danielle, a high school sophomore with a secret power. For those who seek it, Chopsticks videos and music clips are available on YouTube. Prominent examples of transmedia for young adults include the related book and app Chopsticks by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral (Penguin, 2012), a mystery about star-crossed teenage lovers told primarily through images-letters, photographs, and texts-which readers can manipulate in the app version. While teachers like Sansing are using coding and programming in their language arts instruction, others are taking advantage of increasingly sophisticated apps and interactive media for classroom use. Though the word “transmedia” is thought to have entertainment franchise origins, its adaptation for education purposes is both valuable and becoming more and more common. Transmedia, a broad descriptive word that literally translated means “across media” and encompasses many strategies that transverse industries, is generally regarded as the use of multiple media platforms to tell a story or story experience. What is the point of this activity? “To help kids see connections between grammar and code,” says Sansing who shares his lessons on his “Classroots” blog. This innovative way of engaging students with poetry is just one example of how educators are increasingly integrating transmedia techniques in their teaching and assessments.
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Sansing’s students have also translated the poem’s code into Scratch, to create animation, and into LEGO Mindstorms EV3, a robot-programming language. In doing so, the students become producers of both a new language and way of seeing poetry.

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The poem occurs in action sequences-for example, “Lift your right arm, she said./I lifted my right arm.” Sansing and his class conceive a list of actions, sketch ideas of how to code them, using icons or letters, and then code the poem. Share and enjoy.For one language arts class project, a middle school teacher in Shelburne, Virginia, Chad Sansing, asks his sixth graders to read Peter Cherches’s 1986 poem “Lift Your Right Arm,” and then translate it into computer code. I'm not personally a fan of Everstar or If You Give a Mouse a Cookie either.) !nIQxwSCB!K3XHLEPqXwmRVKMUqs44vuqe3g4k-lrrb8z0UNxvazg !7JhknaKZ!eq7JF22yL7QMzuRIeYGXnxXsGDWoOgM8z_TbD3aZAJk !jVwChLKA!9pbTFwKUZtQJdg5vSQMNek5YcPRdpr14H6C1_neE8-I

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I didn't know how to rip an Amazon video so I just screen captured it with the best free software I could find. I recorded these back when those Amazon pilots came out.
