1. Using digital
literacies to promote
educational
collaboration
of consumption &
production
among JAAL Users
Margaret C. Hagood & Emily N. Skinner
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Co-Editors
College of Charleston

2. • Explore stances toward change associated with digital tools and motivations
for using digital learning
• Apply stances and motivations to our goals as editors
• Describe how we use stances and digital literacies to enhance JAAL users’
consumption and production of literacy research using various tools and
communicative venues
• Provide examples of using digital tools to broaden the conversation with
JAAL users
In this
session:

3. The Croods
Neanderthal family who live in a cave
and emerge only to hunt for food
Grug: patriarch who lives by tradition in
order to survive. Mantra: “Anything new is
bad!” “Never not be afraid”
Eep: Eldest of three children who hates the
cave and longs to explore new things.
Thunk: Only son who wants to obey father.
“I will never do anything new or different.”
Guy: nomad whose inventive spirit and
creative problem solving help him adapt

4. 12 Types of Motivation for Using Digital Media
COOL TOOLS AND HOT TOPICS:
Techies: Stay abreast of new tools and apps for
classroom use
Trendsetters: Know about mass media & pop
culture and want to connect to students’ lives
PARTICIPATION ONLINE AND IN THE WORLD:
Activists: Encourage democratic engagement in
school, community, & world
Teacher 2.0s: Unlock potential of students’ social
engagement online
DEVELOPING STUDENT VOICE:
Motivators: Use pop culture to connect to student
creativity
Spirit Guides: Connect to developmental and socio-
emotional concerns related to media and identity
EXPLORING CULTURE AND VALUES:
Taste-makers: Concerned with production &
consumption of high quality media including literary,
film, and other media canons
Alts: Question mainstream texts to include other
sub- or counter-cultural perspectives
UNDERSTANDING MEDIA SYSTEMS:
Demystifiers: “Pull back the curtain”
Watchdogs: Ask questions about money and
balance between private gain and public good
CONTENT AND FORM:
Professors: Connect media & technology to content
standards
Professionals: Promote teaching skills to create
high quality media texts

5. Who are you?
Hobbs, R. & Moore, D.C. Digital Learning
Horoscope. Powerful Voices for Kids.
http://quiz.powerfulvoicesforkids.com/

7. Our goals for JAAL
● Demonstrating a balance of theory, research, and practice
● Connecting stakeholders in rich, multi-voiced perspectives across
the world: teachers, adolescent and adult learners, researchers,
teacher educators, media specialists/librarians, policy makers
● Increasing JAAL users’ consumption and production of texts
● Embracing and utilizing an expanded definition of text and a
multifaceted view of literacy, including reading, writing, listening,
speaking, viewing, and designing

8. Digital technologies
In-house collaboration:
● Google Drive collaboration between editors for planning
of journal volume, issue, and individual adjudication of
manuscripts
● Use of Goodnotes to provide annotationed feedback on
accepted manuscripts with authors with detailed
feedback

9. Multimodal elements
● Multimodal data:
o Inclusion of video and audio data that moves beyond print-based data
to support printed article that highlights multimodal artifacts in
research study
● Feature articles: “More to Explore”:
o Inclusion of websites and relevant links to content to enhance related
resources
● Podcast interviews with feature article authors:
o Summative trailers of content
o Open access to all
o http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jaal.2014.57.issue-8/
issuetoc

10. Connecting digital literacies to editorial work:
Building on Social Networking
https://www.facebook.com/
pages/Journal-of-Adolescent-
Adult-Literacy/235013803238408
•Built community, moving away from
audience reception of content to
active participation
•Inclusivity of stakeholders via open
access for non-journal subscribers
•Monitoring and posting
•Addition of high-use FB user as
content administrator to JAAL FB
page: Peggy Semingson
Meeting of the Minds column:
•Connects online community with print community
•Created a new departmental editor to choose the content

11. Next Steps for Collaboration & Conversation via Social
Networking and Media
JAAL department editors/community collaboration:
Ian O’Byrne, Victoria Gillis, Raul Mora, Jen Scott Curwood, James
Blasingame, Stergios Botzakis, Marcelle Haddix
● Team up as department editors, connect through social network
technologies, engage JAAL users: encourage dialogue and discussion
● Google Hangouts created by and facilitated by departmental editors on
column topic including invited panel of experts/stakeholders
● Record and post on YouTube
● Conversational follow up on Twitter with expert panel and JAAL users
facilitated by departmental editors

12. Return to The
Croods
Importance of
community, risk
taking, trust, and
collaboration