Multiliteracies

1. AT WRITING In the beginning there was the blog…. Going Multiliterated with Web 2.0 Doris Molero, Msc. Universidad Rafael Belloso Chacin Maracaibo, March 22nd 2009

2. Grab a chair, Draw yourself.. Write your name.. Add a photo, Grab your mic.. or just chat about you….

5. Cope and Kalantzis (2000) .

7. Multiliteracies Communities of practice (Wenger, 1998 ) Informal learning Mechanics of how to ‘turn it on’, make it ‘work’, recognize icons, decode sounds and symbols, relate sounds and letters, use a book, and read menus. The focus is on the purpose and the form of text to make meaning. There’s no one universal truth in any text. involves critical selection of appropriate tools, texts and technology for a task. involves using what has been learnt in new ways and new situations.

8. http://prosites-vstevens.homestead.com/files/efi/papers/tesol/evo2009/proposal2009.htm Vance Stevens says…..”A multiliterate teacher understands the many ways that technology interacts and intertwines with academic and interpersonal life , and actively learns how to gain control over those aspects impacting teaching, social, and professional development . Multiliterate individuals are aware of the pitfalls inherent in technology while striving for empowerment through effective strategies for first discerning and then taking advantage of those aspects of changing technologies most appropriate to their situations. …..”

9. • Connectivism • Connective Knowledge (Siemens and Downes, 2006)

10. differences between networks and groups

11. What about you? What do you think multiliteracies are? Write in your box…

12. WHAT are our Projects ABOUT ? Connecting EFL students to the world through conversations... and tagging and aggregating Combining face-to-face learning and on-line learning Getting Multiliterated Using Web 2.0 tools to learn EFL Learning Formally and Informally Having F.U.N Frivoulus Unanticipated Nonsense

18. Our pageflake! http://www.pageflakes.com/doris3m/15083203

19. First Ning Experience: International Collaboration http://grade11.ning.com/group/urbe

20. EFL University: Evolutions from Blog to Social network + community of practice http://efluniversity.ning.com/groups http://efluniversity.ning.com/video http://efluniversity.ning.com/profiles/blog/list

21. http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com/

22. Personal Learning Networks From "PLN Yourself" (Sue Waters) http:// suewaters.wikispaces.com /

25. WRITING MATRIX VIDEO http://youtube.com/watch?v=NHjlCY0BCNo

26. Honored but Invisible “ One common benefit of Learning Communities is that they create communities among students. Students report that they come to know their fellow students better and are able to work with them more both in and out of class—in constrast to conventional practice in community colleges, where students typically find a new group in virtually every class they take.” W. Norton Grubb, 1999 Honored But Invisible: An Inside Look at Teaching in Community Colleges

28. The Networked Student http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwM4ieFOotA The Networked Student was inspired by CCK08, a Connectivism course offered by George Siemens and Stephen Downes during fall 2008. It depicts an actual project completed by Wendy Drexler's high school students.