texts in the 21st century
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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!