Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning Environments

Event Cycle 2 for 2006

What is multiliteracy?

We begin by taking a look at two presentations which themselves model certain aspects of multiliteracy. When viewing the presentations, note how they differ from what Tuman (in Word Perfect, 1992) calls 'print literacy'. What are some of the 'other' literacies required to not only make such presentations, but to view them? What do the presentations themselves suggest about literacy competencies required of a modern multiliterate online language teacher?

Sun Microsystems has some practical pages on writing for the Web as opposed to writing on paper

http://www.sun.com/980713/webwriting/wftw1.html (from this page click Next)
http://www.sun.com/980713/webwriting/wftw9.html (from this page click Previous)

Module 1 - What is multiliteracy

Topic 1. Toward a definition of 'multiliteracies'

For 2006, there are suggestions for study of this question in the Moodle

Links on What is Multiliteracy?

See what resources we examined, and participant reactions to them from 2005. They had interesting assessments, here.

Some resources we used in 2005 (the most updated resources for this year are on the Moodle)

Cope and Kalantzis, Putting 'Multiliteracies' to the Test - http://www.alea.edu.au/multilit.htm
A posting by dmueller to 'New London Group, "A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies"' from Earth Wide Moth.http://www.earthwidemoth.com/mt/archives/000968.html
Learning by Design - http://l-by-d.com/
The Multliteracy Site: "an exploration of how educational stakeholders might collaboratively construct and disseminate knowledge" - http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/multiliteracies/
The Multiliteracy Project is a national Canadian study exploring pedagogies or teaching practices that prepare children for the literacy challenges of our globalized, networked, culturally diverse world. Increasingly, we encounter knowledge in multiple forms – in print, in images, in video, in combinations of forms in digital contexts – and are asked to represent our knowledge in an equally complex manner. ... The term multiliteracies was coined by the New London Group (1996) to highlight two related aspects of the increasing complexity of texts: (a) the proliferation of multimodal ways of making meaning where the written word is increasingly part and parcel of visual, audio, and spatial patterns; (b) the increasing salience of cultural and linguistic diversity characterized by local diversity and global connectedness .
Multiliteracies and communications media (Queensland Government) - http://education.qld.gov.au/corporate/newbasics/html/curric-org/comm.html#comm4
A description of the book: workplacecultures.com MULTILITERACIES: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Future Bill Cope & Mary Kalantzis (eds) Routledge, 350 pages: ISBN 0732959047 - http://workplacecultures.com/books/multilit.html

Part 1: Putting Multiliteracies to the test - http://edoz.com.au/educationaustralia/archive/features/mult1.html
Part 2: Designs of meaning - http://edoz.com.au/educationaustralia/archive/features/mult2.html
Part 4: The multiliteracies pedagogy at a glance - http://edoz.com.au/educationaustralia/archive/features/mult4.html

2. WEB LITERACY THROUGH SOCIO-CONSTRUCTIVISM 2.2.1 AN APPROACH TO LITERACY AS A SOCIO-CONSTRUCTIVE PRACTICE: MULTILITERACIES - http://kielikompassi.jyu.fi/resurssikartta/netro/gradu/g_2_2_1.shtml; from Johanna Ahtikari and Sanna Eronen. (2004). On a journey towards web literacy - The electronic learning space Netro. A dissertation submitted at the University of JYVÄSKYLÄ Department of Languages. Retrieved September 23, 2004 from: http://kielikompassi.jyu.fi/resurssikartta/netro/gradu/index.shtml

Zammit, K; Downes,T
New learning environments and the multiliterate individual : a framework for educators.
Australian Journal of Language and Literacy v.25 n.2 p.24-36 June 2002 http://activated.decs.act.gov.au/reading/curr_jour_hotlists_multiliteracies.htm

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