A 21st century educational system must educate all students in the effective and authentic use of the technologies that permeate society to prepare them for the future. As part of this future, learners need opportunities to not only read, but also write the web. Despite the transformative possibilities associated with the inclusion of the Internet…
Today at 1 PM (EST) we’ll have the inaugural episode of the Digitally Literate show. The show is an hour long netcast that will be produced using a Google Hangout-on-Air and is part of the Networked Learning Collaborative. The DL show will be held on the last Monday of every month and focus on “meta-level”…
On the final day at the MA New Literacies Institute we’re usually in full spin as participants feverishly work on the final elements of their work product. The sessions end with an incredible showcase of all of the different units and projects people developed over the week. As is the usual, I was once again…
On day four at the MA New Literacies Institute we primarily had a series of Digital Texts and Tools sessions, and time for participants to work collaboratively on their units. My sessions included a focus on screencasting, audio podcasting, and Google Presenter. In working with participants to help them plan out and develop their work…
On day three at the MA New Literacies we started off the day with a bang as Karen Brennan joined us for the keynote. Karen’s talk focused on Creative Computing and Computational Culture. The talk focused on the need to empower students in the reader/writer nature of online information. This is a common thread that…
Day two at the MA New Lit Institute wrapped up well. We continued our series of Digging Deeper sessions. I think my session on Online Content Construction went well. In this session we focused on framing of OCC, and spent a lot of time with participants figuring out Mozilla Popcorn. I’ll put together a post…
We just wrapped up our first day at the MA New Literacies Institute. Today was a whirlwind as presenters and participants gradually started unpacking the “nuts and bolts” of the curriculum that we present here during the week. For more info about the schedule and materials, please visit our site here. We did have a…
I have the privilege of presenting today at the 2013 Summer Institute in Digital Literacy at the University of Rhode Island. The theme of the institute is Innovative Teaching and Learning with Digital Media Texts, Tools & Technologies. Please follow along the work of the week at #DigiURI on Twitter, or by clicking here. I’ll be presenting…
I had the opportunity this morning to “speak” to a great group of students in the Two Summers Program at UConn. I previously taught in the program and like to maintain connections with the faculty and students in the program. For this talk I video conferenced in using a Google Hangout on Air, and used…
This week in the Making Learning Connected MOOC, we were asked to develop and publish our “credo.” In short, we were to develop a short statement of our values, or belief systems in teaching, learning, education, “making”, etc. Also this week, I had the privilege of starting up our long awaited IT&DML program here at UNH. So,…