New Technologies, Literacies and Writing Instruction

It’s the End of the World As We Know It (and I feel fine)New Technologies, Literacies, and Writing Instruction
Kathryn Nielsen-Dube and Kathleen Shine Cain, Writing Center
Bridget Rawding, McQuade Library

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

How do you read listservs, blogs, personal e-mails, or text
messages as opposed to books, journals or newsletters?
How do you write for listservs, blogs, personal e-mails, or text
messages as opposed to books, journals or newsletters?
How has the Internet and e-mail altered the ways in which you collaborate with colleagues on your writing, or even in professional discussions?
How has word-processing technology (e.g., Track Changes)
altered your writing process?
How has the sheer volume of information and speed of
transmission affected scholarship in your discipline?

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

Technology and Resistance 1.0
Training
Cost
Privacy
Intellectual Property Issues
Techno Pedagogy
Assessment

TechnopedagogicalCollaboration 2.0
Internships and Service learning
Tapping the Living Database
Teaching and Learning Circles
Conversations in Teaching and Learning
Workshops : Powerpoint, collaborative projects, interacting with experts, managing email, internet research strategies, web development
YOUR STUDENTS

Benefits 2.0
Pragmatic: Giving students experience with the tools they will use on the job
More strategies to reach students with different learning styles
Multiple Pathways for Publication
Inter/Cross Cultural Interconnectivity

Drawbacks 2.0
The World Wide Wastebasket
Can n e 1 spel ne thing ne moor?
A Global Village of Village Idiots
Facebook may well own your conference and family pet pictures!
Technological Failure
Pedagogical Failure

New Media/Old Skills
It’s still about information literacy, but…
Critical reading, traditional research and composition are no longer the whole picture
New kinds of information sources

New Literacies
Evaluating information in the “new media”
Visual/Media Literacy
Participatory Culture
Expanding notion of “writing”

New Compositions
Expanding the relationships
Learning a new medium
Composing in a new medium

New Assignments
Wikipedia Projectshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects
Student Video Projects at Dartmouth Collegehttp://www.dartmouth.edu/~videoprojects/index.html

A Vision of Students Today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o