Frank Romanelli

Professor Frank Romanelli has generously shared these chapter study guides, which support the learning of undergraduate students enrolled in WRT 235 Writing for Electronic Environments. Frank has also used Create to Learn with high school students enrolled in the Dual Enrollment program at the University of Rhode Island. See an example of his class content here.

Alison Trope

Professor Alison Trope uses Create to Learn in ASCJ 200, a course called “Discover, Deconstruct, Design: Navigating Media and News in the Digital Age,” which is offered at the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Journalism and Communication. This team taught course addresses both media and news consumers and contributors at a time when the digital revolution is spawning an unprecedented daily flood of content. This media environment is evolving rapidly, creating a new set of powerful players. The influence these players possess and implications of their reach are often poorly understood and unquestioned. The mark of a well-educated person in the 21st century is the ability to critically navigate this contested and integrated terrain: to understand, employ, enjoy and help build and shape the media landscape we now inhabit. Only by understanding our own roles as consumers and producers of media can we begin to make sense of the environment around us. The health of our democracy depends on enlightened and engaged citizens who can critically analyze the range of information and content disseminated from an equally wide range of sources and platforms. The course examines new avenues of civic participation and the critical importance of ethical standards in communicating messages. Students will learn how to apply their critical-thinking and analytic skills to a range of media and news production and consumption The critical thinking skills developed in this course will be applicable to many fields of study, from science to the arts.

Renee Hobbs

Professor Renee Hobbs uses Create to Learn in a course entitled Digital and Media Literacy, COM 250 at the University of Rhode Island. The course explores how life, work and citizenship have been impacted by digital media and culture. Students learn how to critically analyze and create media in a variety of forms.

Mary Hess

Professor Mary Hess uses Create to Learn in a course entitled Proactive Ministry in Media Cultures, a course that explores the challenges raised by media cultures for communities of faith. Questions of digital presence, communicative practices in digital cultures, constructive theological approaches to digital divides and other issues of justice, and positive use of diverse media in worship and mission are engaged. 

Bridget Dalton

Professor Bridget Dalton has generously shared these chapter study guides, which support the learning of graduate students enrolled in a Literacy MA program. These chapter-by-chapter guides offer creative strategies for current and future teachers to interact with and apply ideas from the book, the PPT slides, and the digital tools and platforms on this website.