[LM_NET] The Summer Issue of FNO - Making Sense of Images from History

[Jamieson McKenzie <fromnowon@EARTHLINK.NET>]

 From Now On
the educational technology journal
Vol 18|No 6|Summer 2009

There is one article in this issue.

----------  Making Sense of Images from History: -----------------------
               Will the Real Joan of Arc Stand Up?

By Jamie McKenzie
http://fno.org/sum09/cov.html

This article has a focus on visual and media literacies.

Who was Joan of Arc?

There is the Joan of Arc we read about in Wikipedia and
the Encyclopedia Britannica.

     National heroine of France
     . . . a peasant girl who, believing that she was acting
under divine guidance, led the French army in a momentous
victory at Orléans that repulsed an English attempt to conquer
France during the Hundred Years’ War. Captured a year afterward,
Joan was burned by the English and their French collaborators
as a heretic. She became the greatest national heroine of
her compatriots.
     Encyclopedia Britannica
     http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/304220/Saint-Joan-of-Arc

Many of these articles turn Joan into an icon, a bit like
Princess Diana. She has been Disneyfied — transformed
into a caricature, as when the Hunchback of Notre Dame
becomes cute and Pocahantas becomes a dazzling
cover girl.
Note images at http://www.meredith.edu/nativeam/pocahontas_4.jpg

This article is continued at http://fno.org/sum09/cov.html



Jamie McKenzie
Editor
 From Now On - http://fno.org
The Question Mark - http://questioning.org
fromnowon@earthlink.net
917 12th St.
Bellingham, WA 98225

--------------------------------------------------------------------
Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law.
  You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings
  by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book.
To change your LM_NET status, you send a message to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu
In the message write EITHER:
1) SIGNOFF LM_NET
2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL
3) SET LM_NET MAIL
4) SET LM_NET DIGEST

 * LM_NET Help & Information: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/
 * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/
 * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/join.html
 * LM_NET Supporters: http://lmnet.wordpress.com/category/links/el-announce/

--------------------------------------------------------------------