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Ashley, Brittany, and I worked together to create a very intriguing news report highlighing the current economic decline that college students are currently facing. Although, all Americans not just college students are feeling the affects of the economy we decided to let everyone see just how it has personally affected us. Our video contains humor as well as some seriousness that I am sure any audience will be able to enjoy. Hope everyone likes it!

Toward New Media Texts

With the tremendous amount of technology being used within the classroom it is very important that teachers become familiar with how to use this to benefit all students. But how do teachers who have been raised on alphabetic literacy and who have not had much experience with new media texts of today. These teachers should be trained on how to use these tools by other professionals. It is important that teachers become familiar with their students' multiple literacies and in order to do this they must be able to access optional forms of texts including multimedia texts.

The lack of technology use may be due to the fear of new things. I know personally I fear what I do not understand, but I am not afraid to explore new things. The article includes some great ideas that can be incorporated in any classroom, but realistically teachers are often unable to do this due to the hype of high stakes testing and accountability. All of the ideas that the article highlights are amazing don't get me wrong, but to what extent is too much. I think that teachers should try to balance out media/technology with traditional practices to ensure that students are being exposed to a variety of learning experiences.