This study aims to investigate the perceptions of teacher trainees with regard to the use of digital comics in teaching writing to low-achieving ESL learners. Using digital comics as a language-learning tool clearly seems to be one of the most effective ways to teach ESL writing to students who have low proficiency in the English language. As one of the pedagogical tools that involve the application of ICT, digital comics offer many advantages, particularly in the creation of an engaging learning environment. Information Communication Technology (ICT) is used in modern education to help teachers to perform administrative tasks more efficiently and students learn more effectively. This collection will appeal not only to educators, but to anyone invested in better understandingand perhaps participating inthe significant shift towards everyday people producing their own digital media. Each chapter opens with an overview of a specific DIY media practice, includes a practical how-to tutorial section, and closes with suggested applications for classroom settings. Specific DIY media practices addressed in the chapters include machinima, anime music videos, digital photography, podcasting, and music remixing. As such, it is organized around three broad areas of digital media: moving media, still media, and audio media. This book is very much concerned with engaging students in do-it-yourself digitally mediated meaning-making practices.

DIY Media addresses this issue head-on, and describes expansive and creative practices of digital literacy that are increasingly influential and popular in contexts beyond the school, and whose educational potential is not yet being tapped to any significant degree in classrooms.

Schools remain notorious for co-opting digital technologies to business as usual approaches to teaching new literacies.

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