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By Diana Maliszewski – Note: a version of this blog post initially appeared December 7, 2015 on https://mondaymollymusings.blogspot.com/2015/12/memes-from-twitter-inspiration-to.html Memes [...]

Michelle Solomon is a Media Specialist currently teaching in the TDSB. She received her MA in English from McMaster University, where she worked as a TA for several years, focusing on English and [...]

By Diana Maliszewski with Neil Andersen A common adjective to describe recent media experiences is FAST. The speed at which content is published, shared, commented on, and remixed is quick. What [...]

by Diana Maliszewski Media literacy can be most impactful when the media texts chosen for study are items that students interact with daily, often without much consideration. The Canadian [...]

Updated 2015. Please see Neil Andersen’s and Carol Arcus’ article describing the intersection of media literacy and social media in the Spring issue of Forum magazine.

I was once asked what novel I would recommend for  a media studies high school course. My immediate reaction was, “Why would you put a novel on the course at all? There are novels studied [...]

A Lesson in Analysis of Social Networking Sites as Media Texts (taking a close look @ FACEBOOK) - Grades 11 and 12

The season premiere of The Good Wife had a sub-plot that implicated social media very tellingly.  Alicia, Zach and Grace were stopped on a Canadian-bound highway by an Illinois cop who trumped up [...]

  Thanks for teaching the Internet how to make our lives better. Organizing the web is lot of work and seriously, when was the last time someone thanked you for it? Well I will. Nicely done. [...]