Category: Multiliteracies
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Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
The link to this video, “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us” has been the hit of the day on a number of listservs that I am on. Watch it, and you will see why.
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Early Language Learning: Good or Bad?
USA Today featured an article on a growing trend, as well as personal and professional interest of mine: early language immersion: Azure Warrenfeltz is fluent in Japanese and Spanish. She also can understand bits of French, German, Arabic and Italian, and she soon hopes to learn some Mandarin Chinese. Azure is 4 years old. “I’m…
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Visions of Technology In English
Tomorrow, I will be working with a colleague’s class of pre-service English teachers. He asked me to “offer this group is a vision or several visions of what is possible regarding technology and writing” and I can think of a few, but there are two rolling around in my mind right now. First, I return…
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End of Year “Reflection”
Well, I’ve held off on using the “R” word for any tagging on this blog, but I guess that it is the end of the calendar year that causes me to think about reflection, even though it is a term that is fraught with problems, as my adviser, Lynn Fendler, points out. At any rate,…
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And Time’s Person of the Year is…
OK, if we didn’t have enough of a reason to teach our students that they are, indeed, producers of digital writing — and that this matters as a skill they need to have — this story might be the final straw that convinces educators that we need to take it seriously: But look at 2006…
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Podcasting with Bonnie, Thinking about Critical Aspects of Digital Literacy
Bonnie asks a good (and loaded) question here: How could I bring the podcasts onto the team blog? Well, a few of you noticed that I tried to test a podcast through my blog/feed the other day. I did that to help Bonnie from HVWP to do a podcast for her tech team. Then, Karen…
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If Fifth Graders Can Go Paperless…
It’s been a busy two weeks without much time to blog here, but a link to this article from NCTE’s Inbox caught my eye. This fall, I have been pushing friends and colleagues to go paperless with free and open source applications, like Google Docs, and even though this isn’t quite the same, seeing that…
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Typo Generator
Now, here is a great way to kill time and generate cool graphics for your blog: typoGenerator Interestingly enough, the warning at the bottom of this image says “the images used for generating may be subject to copyright.” Also interesting, as soon as I clicked away from the page, the temp image that was stored…