Post to revist on what litercies we should look at

As promised I got my self togehter and went through the next set of readings. I had skim read them already so it wasnt so bad. I wont repeat what I said on the db about them but I think of ponder worthyness in my context is def mulicultural and global literacies.

I also want to continually update the below!

Is there a place for the incorporation of other, new literacies? Why? Why not?
o Blogs and wikies – to help students with acquiring better basic literacy in
a computer mediated way that appeals to them
o Using avatars – why not? Gets kids to sum up their identity!! Can be used
as their picture on our VLE ( I learned this through the Kinzer reading and
looked it up in Wikipedia its fascinating!!)
o Film could be used more effectively but need to think about this.
o I will keep this running in my blog and add more to it as I read more

Tuesday the 13th!

I did some reserach today on using podcasts in education and in using films in education. So I have lots of stuff but I now need to put all the best quotes together!! And I need to keep up with the readings on the course.

Tomorrow i will consolidate it all and get it together better. I also need to do somemore readings for this coure to keep up with discussions etc!! Its a dogs life!

On the blogging way!

Right, I got the head down today and got research together about blogs and their use. I came up with some real potential problems though visavis use and safety.

Recorded the how to do it, and now need to get the stuff ready forit.

Also some interesting disussion regarding does online communication really work, and the almost sci-fi aspect of new technology

End of first week.

To do from here
Get going practically on the blog stuff
Find out if I can use Blogspot at school to set up kids blogs
Get some sort of policy document going
Get the academic theory stuff written
Do a wink presentation on setting one up and showing how to use one.

Where I am a the end of the first week
The hoop stuff
Have posted the synch/ashych articles
WECT's annoying lack of functionality and instictive use kicks in again - cant bold etc
Have posted my first part of reflection for the first article
Finding that a bit terse, need to print it off and work with it tomorrow evening though to get to the rest!
Need to continue on the blog stuff

Got my approval!!

We're off.......got my approval...great

Some what dissapointed as noone else on the dbs were as excited about my Arabic Eglish discovery. Do you think this is because its got no WIIFM for them or because its not as ground breaking as I thought it was???

I need to really get that synch/asynch article up!! By the end of the week def...
And Blogs really need to get that finished!!

Interesting disucssions on the value of communication in online course. Underlying theme seems to be whether they offload responsibility off the "master"....need to ponder this more

Got my approval!!

We're off.......got my approval...great

Some what dissapointed as noone else on the dbs were as excited about my Arabic Eglish discovery. Do you think this is because its got no WIIFM for them or because its not as ground breaking as I thought it was???

I need to really get that synch/asynch article up!! By the end of the week def...
And Blogs really need to get that finished!!

Interesting disucssions on the value of communication in online course. Underlying theme seems to be whether they offload responsibility off the "master"....need to ponder this more

Exciting revelation

To do......
1) Get the synch/asynch stuff out of the way!!
2) Really want some approval for the project..will wait a few more days

Today I discoved ArEnglish Or what ever its called.
I have added a very excited ref to the disucssion board for the coure on this so wont add to this now.

Have also started collecting stuff for what I will write on my teachers course about Blogs.......did over an hours reserach on stuff today...