Comments on: Preparing for Tech-Focused Professional Development http://hickstro.org/2008/07/03/preparing-for-tech-focused-professional-development/ Integrating New Literacies into the Teaching of Writing Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:02:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: alan http://hickstro.org/2008/07/03/preparing-for-tech-focused-professional-development/#comment-1155 alan Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:09:43 +0000 http://hickstro.org/2008/07/03/preparing-for-tech-focused-professional-development/#comment-1155 To see really exciting new multimedia literacy try out Inanimate Alice. http://www.inanimatealice.com And its a free online resource! More an interactive piece of fiction than a traditional game, Inanimate Alice: Episode 4 continues the story of the young game animator as she leaves her home in Russia and travels abroad. Inanimate Alice serves as both entertainment and a peek into the future of literature as a fusion of multimedia technologies. The haunting images and accompanying music and text weave a remarkably gripping tale that must be experienced to be believed. And better still for schools there is a piece of software now available that allows learners to create their own stories. Valuable for all forms of literacy and this is being sold as a perpetual site licence for schools at £99 ! http://www.istori.es To see really exciting new multimedia literacy try out Inanimate Alice. http://www.inanimatealice.com And its a free online resource!
More an interactive piece of fiction than a traditional game, Inanimate Alice: Episode 4 continues the story of the young game animator as she leaves her home in Russia and travels abroad. Inanimate Alice serves as both entertainment and a peek into the future of literature as a fusion of multimedia technologies. The haunting images and accompanying music and text weave a remarkably gripping tale that must be experienced to be believed.
And better still for schools there is a piece of software now available that allows learners to create their own stories. Valuable for all forms of literacy and this is being sold as a perpetual site licence for schools at £99 ! http://www.istori.es

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