i was recently reading Lankshear and Knobel’s piece on Facebook as an environment for multiliteracies (more on that over here). There is some disagreement around these social networking sites, that you must be self-centred to use them, or that they will damage your brain (eg this article).
Here’s a gadget that looks like fun .. and is completely useless. i just want to know if it comes in Dvorak flavour. Speaking of gadgets, today we had the adult literacy classroom on their laptops for the whole session. i wanted to get students used to searching for images and videos, so a couple of activities focussed on these skills. For example, find a video that interests you on how stuff works. Watch it, take some notes and then write a response (a description, an opinion or a set Read More …
A very funny take-off of Amy Winehouse, here we have Amy Brickhouse singing about the Wii. Why did they call it a Wii? (Oh, of course, it’s wireless and the (ii) represents two people standing, waving their arms in 3D space.) i wonder how long before we’ll get wii-based games in the classroom? They could suit some people better, because of the different physicality – you’re really bodily involved in the game (from what i gather .. never touched one. What a dullard.) Must confess i’m waiting for the day Read More …