texts in the 21st century

Texts* in the 21st CenturyETAQ State Conference 2011

Kelli McGrawQueensland University of Technology

* Please do not sniff the texts.

The medium is the message…

English Teacher…Words?Books?Listening?Stories?Letters?Radio?Voices?Communication?Poetry?Quotations?Shakespeare?Imagination?Ball point pens?Drinking tea?Sitting in armchairs?Stacking things nicely?Keeping old things?Drifting? Flying?KNOWING?

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Connecting online enables use to access texts we might otherwise not discover.It’s a library that never closes.

Digital publishing makes possible the creation of new digital genres…D

igital narratives like http://w

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Digital publishing also creates new audiences and modes of authorship…

e.g. Consider the digital literacy required to understand (and make) ‘hyperlinks’.

Digital journalism

Readers can comm

ent Collaborative publishing

Digital publishing encourages new text forms and features…including ones that could just as easily exist on paper.

http://www.12words.com.au/

The lesson: WRITE.

EVERYWHERE.

Equity?(access)(inclusivity)Literacy?(print)(live)(digital)Workload?(time)(online privacy)Creativity?(traditions)(mastery)

http://kellimcgraw.com/2011/06/30/the-medium-is-the-message/ http://kellimcgraw.com/2010/10/14/shape-arts-curriculum/

http://www.polyvore.com/curriculum_ideas/collection?id=514296

http://kmcgraw.wetpaint.com/page/Bookfuturism

http://englishteachinginoz.wordpress.com/

https://twitter.com/#!/kmcg2375/english-educators

http://www.slideshare.net/kellimcgraw

for more…

…my weblog

…resources wiki

…teaching blog

…micro blog

…digital collage maker

…these slides!