Multiliteracies

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Multiliteracies for Social Networking and Collaborative Learning Environments

What is/are multiliteracies?

In week 2 we will discuss the concept of Rss, tagging, aggregation and social bookmarking. Please check our wiki for more information.You can access it from our NING tab called Weekly Activities.
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Videos

Web 2.0 connections for efficient research

Added by Jennifer Verschoor
How to RESIZE and EMBED a YOU TUBE VIDEO into BLOGGER

Added by Hanaa Khamis
Diigo - Improving how we find, share, and save information

Added by Jennifer Verschoor

Latest Activity

Vance Stevens commented on Vance Stevens's event 'Michael Coghlan talks on "Changing Literacies: An Historical POV (point of view)"'

I just posted this to the Webheads YahooGroup list: Michael is a world reknowned expert on distance technologies and has been known on occasion to be a fellow edupunk. Michael is also known as "the voice" and is the troubadour composer of Webheads a…

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Vance Stevens commented on Vance Stevens's blog post 'What key literacies should we be teaching students in a digital world? Vivid answers from K12Online09'

The good news is that with Nings and social networking, this session can continue long after it "ends" on Feb 21, 2010.

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Nina Liakos commented on Vanessa Vaile's blog post 'tag, you're it'

My tagging is evolving in a somewhat similar manner to yours; viz., at first not happening, then happening very sporadically, now slowly becoming a habit. Thankfully, Delicious brings up my various similar tags when I start typing (so blog, blogs, a…

1 hour ago

Vanessa Vaile This week is #evomlit catch-up on Multiliteracies @ http://ning.it/dbJsth // week 5, CMC & apps thru sociocultural lens

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Joel Bloch added a blog post

key digital literacy

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Hanaa Khamis Multiltasking has reached a peak where i cant finish a single task. i need help #evomlit

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Jennifer Verschoor How to use Twitter in the classroom www.jenverschoor.wordpress.com

yesterday

Jennifer Verschoor Great example of Remix in the classroom http://remixtheclassroom.wikispaces.com/

on Monday

Events

Today

Michael Coghlan talks on "Changing Literacies: An Historical POV (point of view)"

February 10, 2010 from 12pm to 1pm – live online

Welcome to Multiliteracies EVO session

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Happy learning and sharing !!
Multiliteracies Team :-)

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Blog Posts

key digital literacy

My favorite digital literacy is digital story telling. I've introduced it as part of a writing course for the past year. Digital stories are personal stories voiced by the writer + images + a soundtrack. They allow students to explore the relationships between words and images, give them a sense both as a writer and a creator of digital content, and let them share their work with the classmates and anyone else they want to.They work with a variety of technologies - blogger to post and share draf… Continue

Posted by Joel Bloch on February 10, 2010 at 2:59am

Trying to catch up

After a two-week holiday and the struggle to find my bearings back at home, I have been doing something (not much) lately, which I would like to share here, although they are mostly related to another EVO session.

You can take a look at my blog (posts are linked)

Working with photos

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Posted by Mariel Amez on February 10, 2010 at 2:13am

What key literacies should we be teaching students in a digital world? Vivid answers from K12Online09

The theme this week verges on disruptions to prescribed order when transformative technologies are brought to bear on traditional gatekeepers. Mark Pegrum's chapter this week is on sociopolitical issues, and the readings at http://goodbyegutenberg.pbworks.com/2010_Week5 concern the concept of "edupunk."

We have in fact been viewing our topic through a sociopolitical lens all a

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Posted by Vance Stevens on February 9, 2010 at 3:00pm — 3 Comments

Beginning Week 5

Week 4 got away from me. I don't think I read/watched/did anything on the syllabus! I am twittering more regularly than before and I have installed TweetDeck on all the computers I use, including my brand-new laptop (which I am using now--my very first laptop). I am home today for a snow day (the Washington DC area is buried under over 2 feet of snow which feel Friday and Saturday, and we are bracing for more snow tomorrow) and after baking bread, having lunch with friends, and doing some financ… Continue

Posted by Nina Liakos on February 9, 2010 at 12:00am — 2 Comments