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Making Connections in Cyberspace
ETEC 540 was a different journey for me, a journey where sometimes I lost focus on what I was reading or learning. At first, I found myself lost in different spaces, like weblogs, wiki, and vista. I did not … Continue reading
SymbalooEDU to Embed Educational Tools in your Course Website
For the Rip. Mix. Feed. Reloaded. activity I have decided to use edu.symbaloo.com, a bookmarks too for educators and students I discovered during the past week or so. First, I decided to use symbaloo to organize some of the educational … Continue reading
Multimodal Modes of Representation in Education: Supporting the Diversity of Learning Styles
In today’s century, as we discuss digital literacy, internet literacy, media literacy, and even television literacy (Rosen, 2009); it is clear that literacy is developing new accents that have become difficult to define in a few words. Rosen (2009) … Continue reading
The Rise of Newspapers and the Penny Press
Johann Gutenberg, inventor of Europe’s first printing press in the 1450’s, unexpectedly created a demand for knowledge and news. Impressively, over 50 years after his invention, “an estimated 500,000 books were in circulation, printed on about 1,000 presses across … Continue reading
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Tagged Gutenberg, mass media, mass printing, newspaper, penny press, printed press
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Technology – Text’s Transformer and Transmitter
Technology, text’s transformer and transmitter, is altering the world we live in by using new mediums by which texts, “socially contextual symbols”, are delivered. Technology has existed since ancient time, but it can almost be considered a ‘novelty’ in the … Continue reading
The Impact of Technology on Literate Environments
This image and quote from Richardson is representing technology and how it is evolving the complexity of the changing spaces or reading and writing. New forms of representation are developing with the use of new media and it changes the … Continue reading
Tagged Introductions, literacy, media, printing, reading, technology, text, writing
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Facing the Web 2.0 Social Networks in Education
While the Web 2.0 provides a mix of familiar and emergent technologies (Alexander, 2006), I believe that educators are facing new challenges at how to choose and integrate them into their pedagogical practices. Nevertheless, it has become also challenging … Continue reading →