Multiliteracies: Skyping with The Wrens Nest

Martin Waller Creative Learning Coordinator Holy Trinity Rosehill Primary SchoolUKLA International Conference - Saturday 16th July 2011

Classroom Teacher of Orange Class (Year 2) at HolyTrinity Rosehill Primary School. Creative Learning Coordinator for Nursery through to Year 6. Postgraduate student (MA in New Literacies) at the University of Shefﬁeld.Independent educational researcher working with arange of organisations.

Focus on the ‘Uncle Remus’ stories collected by JoelChandler Harris. Progression from oral to written and multimodal texts.New contexts for cross-curricularlearning in a relevantand contextuallydriven manner.

Exploring how texts work and how power is exercised (Comber, 2001). Focus on being a ‘text critic’Subverting taken for granted texts and(re)designing them for real world use. Placing texts at the centre of the curriculum

Free video conferencinganywhere in the world via an internet connection.

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Multiliteracies: Skyping with The Wrens Nest

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