Multiliteracies in ELA Classrooms

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• allisond // Jul 18th 2013 at 12:31 pm

  I’m looking forward to downloading this on itunes 🙂

• TMD // Jul 18th 2013 at 3:01 pm

  Great to see it up on Issuu!

• TMD // Jul 20th 2013 at 7:45 am

  Dear Ellis and Annie,

  I’m very glad you opted to explore this route of creating an eBook. Howl at the Moon is a beautiful, imaginative creation! The artwork is inspired and the idea of telling a story with cliches has merit on a number of levels in terms of language pedagogy.

  I was interested in your creative process. Although it appeared Ellis had some of the materials in a scrap book, I got the sense that an aim of this project was never to create the physical copy of this eBook. That is, the physical text appeared to remain distributed and it was only the electronic text which was brought together in a digital facsimile of a book. That’s a very interesting inversion of what people usually observe about print versus digital texts (i.e, that the print text is bound and complete while the digital text may be dispersed and fragmented). The activity might lead to interesting class discussions of the “type-token” distinction in relation to the history of book publication from pre-print through digital times. You’ll find a discussion of type/token here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%E2%80%93token_distinction

  Ultimately, the activity is a great one: as you suggested, it allows students to contribute in the areas of their strengths, linguistically and artistically, to explore language, as well as to contemplate alternate methods of publication. I suppose It may have been helpful to post more detailed discussion of assessment strategies based on your experience — but not to worry about that at this point.

  Thanks for your creative and critical contributions these last three weeks. I’ve learned much!

  Best wishes,

  Teresa

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