Category: Multiliteracies
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CEE Podcast: Examining Writing in a Time of Change
The CEE Web Editing Team has been hard at work, and this is the first in what we hope will become a series of regular podcasts with leaders in English Education. Please add comments to the page and continue the conversation about teaching writing in the 21st century. Examining Writing in a Time of Change:…
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Visual Literacy Tool – PictLits
Recently, I was contacted by Carrie Lightner from PicLits.com. She said: I came across your blog and I thought you might be interested in our new web site, www.PicLits.com. It is a fun and new site that can be a great online teaching tool for educators. It helps get students interested in writing and serves…
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New IM Tool: MeGlobe
A note from Jose Rodriguez about MeGlobe: We’ve created an Instant Messaging application, called Meglobe, that also performs real time language translation. I thought you might be interested in taking a look since it can be used as a tool for students and educators to collaborate globally across language barriers. Meglobe is web based and supports 15 different languages.…
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Rough Draft Thinking for a Hybrid Professional Development Experience
Well, we have a hybrid professional development experience coming up on September 24th for the Project WRITE teachers. In trying to meet a number of constraints and opportunities, I have set up a wiki page for the evening’s activities. Here is some of my thinking about why and how this is set up this way,…
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Brief Review of Webb and Rozema’s “Literature and the Web”
Earlier this summer, Allen Webb and Robert Rozema published their text through Heinemann, Literature and the Web: Reading and Responding with New Technologies. I received a copy as a gift, and just got a chance to read it over Labor Day. Besides thanking the two of them for mentioning my blog in the book, I…
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CMU Podcast Interview on Technology Literacy
Earlier this month, one of my students, Lynette Seitz, and I were interviewed by Heather Smith, CMU’s Assistant Director of Media Relations about technology literacy and our work in ENG 315 this semester. I appreciate her invitation to record this podcast and it was wonderful to have Lynette’s voice in there, too, as a pre-service…
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Randy Bomer’s Keynote about New Literacies
Notes from Randy Bomer‘s keynote at MRA 2008: “Writing Transformations: How New Literacies and New Times Invite Us to Rethink Composition” Literacy is changing, literacy as design Obstacles: accountability measures and deficit thinking If we are constantly trying to fill in gaps, we are not moving into the future. Looking at education from a deficit…
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OLPC Keynote from SITE 2008
Sorry that it took so long, but getting back to another crazy week finds me now, on the Friday might before MRA 2008, catching up on SITE. That said, I have one final set of notes and reflections, and this keynote was a good one. Dr. Antonio Battro, the Chief Education Officer for One Laptop…
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Beginning to Think About Fall 2008 Courses
It is just barely spring break here (well, break at least, if not spring) and I am already turning my attention somewhat to the fall. I have been asked to adapt two existing CMU courses into ones focusing on digital writing. Here is what I have come up with so far: ENG 460 – Current…