January 12-19, 2009 - Week 1: Theme - What is/are Multiliteracies?

• Content
  • Seminal reading
    • The New London Group (1996). A pedagogy of Multiliteracies. Harvard Educational Review: http://wwwstatic.kern.org/filer/blogWrite44ManilaWebsite/paul/articles/A_Pedagogy_of_Multiliteracies_Designing_Social_Futures.htm
  • Seminal viewing
    • Michael Wesch, A Portal to Media Literacy, a talk on "Web 2.0 and Learning Environments" Presented at the University of Manitoba June 17th 2008 on Webhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4yApagnr0s
  • What's this course about?
    • Key models and structures
      • Stephen Downes: Distributed learning networks (his WiAOC talk)
      • George Siemens: Connectivism (the course)
      • SCoPE: multimemberships
      • The Nancy White slideshare graphic

        

    • Kim Cofino.
      • Making the shift happen, Always Learning (Feb 24, 2008):

        http://mscofino.edublogs.org/2008/02/24/making-the-shift-happen/

      • The more recent course she has proposed for SUNY: http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dd93ftgv_113gx4s68gh
    • The baker's dozen in: http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2008/03/ive-been-asked-to-propose-task-force-to.html
      1. RSS and push/pull technologies and feed readers
      2. Aggregation: tagging, Del.icio.us, and folksonomic classification systems as opposed to taxonomic ones
      3. Podcasts: harvesting them primarily, but also producing them, as vital resources in ongoing professional development
      4. Paradigm shift: multiliteracies and new learning heuristics
      5. Blogging and microblogging
      6. Digital storytelling
      7. Social networking
      8. Distributive learning networks: communities and connectivism
      9. Web 2.0
      10. Informal / just-in-time learning
      11. Synchronous communications: instant messaging, online presentation venues incorporating interactive whiteboard, voice, and video
      12. Asynchronous collaborations tools: blogs, wikis, Voicethread, Slideshare and similar, Google docs and similar, Google notebook

• Synchronous discussion
  • Vance can lead a seminar discussion in Elluminate 14:00 GMT Sunday this week
• Project
  • Complete the needs analysis
  • Start a blog or wiki journal to track progress in this course
• Tools
  • YahooGroups
  • Ning - Why re-invent the wheel? 
    • Why not use this one? http://workliteracy.ning.com/
    • Or the Pan-Canadian Literacy Forum: http://www.bcliteracyforum.ca
  • Blog sites
    • Blogger and similar
    • Tumblr
    • Posterous
  • Wiki sites: http://havingalookatmultiliteracies.pbwiki.com/
  • Microblogging
    • Twitter (video)
    • Pownce
    • Plurk
  • Second Life
  • Facebook
  • Friendfeed
  • Skype and SkypeChat (We will start one asap and keep it going with all session participants)