Communication

Communication & Collaboration

Audience
Purpose
Communication
Variety of Media
Communication to a variety of audiences, for a variety of purposes,
using a variety of media is an essential life skill we must teach our
students (and teachers)
Purpose- persuasion, descriptive, expository, research
But, with new communication tools, people are communicating more
than ever, especially outside of academic contexts.

Who is
my
Audience?
In the past, we’ve had to imagine our audience and write for these
people who would never actually see our work in most cases.

Who would actually see the work in the end? The teacher (or maybe
few others if the work was exceptional or really bad).

Who is
my
Audience?
In today’s world we still have think about audience to communicate
our ideas, but there is an essential dierence. . .

The audience can be real and authentic! New technologies are allowing
us and our students to communicate to real, global and participatory
audiences who will feedback, evaluate, and encourage our work

ClustrMap of my Blog’s Readers
togalearning.com blog

ClustrMap of a Kindergartner’s Readers
Friend’s daughter’s blog (maddiesminute.com)

Variety of Media
New technologies are allowing us to communicate with each other
through a variety of media

At the same time these technologies allows to communicating ideas,
content, and understandings to the real audiences.

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engaging alternative to show understanding of content

videos... in plain english style

Podcasts
book talks & reviews, authors, iTunes U
<show iTunes U>

Digital Storytelling
going beyond text. great for students of all ages.

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Digital
Media
Creations
from
your school?
Universities collect, catalogue, and store their doctoral dissertations
and master’s theses.
Collecting, cataloging, and storing your school’s media creations and
assets.
To what extent should libraries be starting to collect, catalogue, and
store digital media creations from our faculty and students?