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Category Archives: Major Project
Digital Literacy in the 21st Century
Inadequacy of traditional definitions of literacy In the 1980s, when personal computers became widespread used for word processing, the world of print and corresponding notion of literacy were seriously challenged. It seemed to be obvious that traditional definitions of literacy … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, digital literacy, education, information, meaning, web 2.0
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Information and Media Literacy in Post Secondary Education
New literacy in the Digital Age: understanding the dynamics of needed information and media competencies in a post-secondary educational setting. Introduction As we progress through the early stages of the twenty-first century, we are witnessing a dramatic change in the … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, education, flickr, Google, information literacy, literacy, media literacy, post-secondary, standards
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Unwired Curriculum in a Wired World
There is a growing sentiment in our society that today’s students need to be multiliterate, in order to be successful, functioning members of society. Literacy today means something quite different than it did 700 years ago. To be literate in … Continue reading
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Tagged curriculum, digital literacy, literacy, multiliteracies
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Tension Between the Visual and the Verbal
Here is my Major Project, which explores the changing relationship between text and image from the medieval to the digital age. Introduction The relationship between the visual and textual elements used in representation has changed in the time from the … Continue reading
Final Project: Social Semiotic Theory of Multimodality
To publish my project, I explored with the blogging tool Serendipity. Please visit my space here, where you will find my theoretical paper, my concept map, and a few other resources related to my topic. The story of how I installed … Continue reading
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Tagged Bolter, culture, Kress, literacy, social, technology, theory
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Through Death and Rebirth
My final project, Through Death and Rebirth, is a series of stories exploring the changes to how the story of death is told through changing text technologies over time. Enjoy
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Multiliteracies & the Marginalized
This was a fun project, at least once I got over my hesitancy about submitting something in this format! It was an interesting journey building this concept map, but it satisfied my need for text plus a desire to try … Continue reading
Hypertext and Constructivism
Link Me a Story – Hypertext as Constructivist Learning Tool Children ask their parents or teachers to ‘tell me a story’. Storytelling is a part of our human nature. It is a “fundamental instrument of thought.” (Mark Turner as quoted in … Continue reading
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Tagged association, connected, Constructivism, hypermedia, hypertext, link, story
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The Influence of Text Technologies on Politics
Text has influenced society’s political landscape throughout history. To describe this affect of text, Bulwer-Lytton (1839) in his play decreed, “The pen is mightier than the sword” (p 52). Text and how text is disseminated continues to influence politics as … Continue reading
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Major Project – Digitization of Apprenticeship Training
Here is my final project. It is entitled “Digitization of Apprenticeship Training”. In this presentation, I will be talking about how workplace training has changed through history. Workplace training is different than other educational topics in that its primary goal … Continue reading
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Tagged Apprenticeships, Computer, oral traiditions, simulations, teaching machines, textbook
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Ebook: Redefining Reading and Learning
The Advent of the eBook: Redefining the way we read and learn The Introduction The Oxford Dictionary of English defines the e-book as “an electronic version of a printed book; but e-books can and do exist without any printed … Continue reading
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Major Project – Social Media
What is Social Media? Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein (2010) define social media as a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content. … Continue reading
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Why is richer hypertext not a reality on the web?
Introduction It is clear that the World Wide Web and Hypertext has its roots in several pursuits most notably those outlined by H. G. Wells (1938), Vannevar Bush (1945), Joseph Licklider (1960, 1963), Theodore Nelson (1963, 1999) and Douglas Englebart … Continue reading
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