Monthly Archives: November 2010

The Electronic Book- ebooks and books can coexist in the 20th Century

ETEC 540 Commentary#3 Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print – Chapter 5 The Electronic Book- EBooks and Books can coexist in the 20st Century. EBook, known as the electronic book is a text with images that … Continue reading

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Rip, Mix, Feed

My rip, mix, feed was done on windows movie maker using photos that I took on my blackberry’s not great camera.  The visuals are terrible, very blurry, sorry. My sequencing and timing is also off. The audio is fine if … Continue reading

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Commentary #3 Web 2.0 and Emergent Mulitiliteracies

This commentary is in response to Alexander’s Article Web 2.0 and Emergent Literacies as referenced below.  Alexander begins by outlining the changes in current student experiences in learning through technological advances as compared to the past.  He states that students … Continue reading

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The Digital Divide

It has long been accepted that literacy is strongly connected to democratic and human rights. In the past, literacy was crucial for individuals to make educated decisions on current events, such as choosing which party was best suited to lead … Continue reading

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Rip.Mix.Feed.Remix – My attempt at using JayCut

For this assignment I tried using a new resource – JayCut.  For the most part it was pretty painless.  It merely took seconds to set-up an account.  The most challenging part with it was how long it took to upload … Continue reading

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Websliding a science meeting

There are a lot of GEMS that I’d like to test out from RipMixFeed.  The one that stuck out right away was Webslides. When I saw it, I envisioned showing a Webslide to my science department.  My department head is … Continue reading

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Mission Impossible: How Can Digital Immigrants Engage Digital Natives In Educational Settings?

I was born in 1974.  It wasn’t until 1987 that my family got our first computer – I was thirteen.  The internet didn’t start until the mid 1990’s – I had already graduated from high school by then.  Current cell … Continue reading

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Re-thinking Literacy: Web 2.0 and Education

Introduction The emergence and rapid development of Web 2.0 has resulted in a rethinking of what literacy means. Just as notions of the transfer of knowledge shifted with the advent of text and led to our basic definitions of literacy … Continue reading

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Erring with caution in a technological society- in support of the Technophiles.

Commentary on, Postman, N. (1993). Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology. Thinking about a technological society requires some amount of wariness, no doubt. As humans, we always tend to have the fear of the unknown. The effects of any … Continue reading

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Grand Canyon Rafting!

Since starting the MET program in the fall of 2008, I have been introduced to and have used many Web 2.0 tools. It is truly amazing how much Web 2.0 has evolved even in just 2 years. Web 2.0 tools … Continue reading

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