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PP 107:
Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning Environments
Portals: Desire to Learn:
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"At first people used to say it's not
the e that's important, it's the learning. I don't think that's true. I think
it's the e that's important. It's networking, it's management, and it's
learning how to deal with computers." - Jay Cross, in Abu Dhabi for an eMerging
eLearning Conference, quoted in the Gulf News, Sept. 13, 2004,
p.6
"Welcome" - a
few words from Vance at the start of the course
Session
Overview
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See where we are NOW in the scheduled
syllabus
A multiliterate online language teacher creates learning
environments interweaving sound and image with text over networked media. This
course provides experiential training in the technological skills required to
develop effective strategies for utilizing video, web cam, image, and voice
technologies in communities of practice as enhancements to collaborative
learning settings. Course-specific requirements: Internet Explorer 6.0,
sound card, and some means of reading/accessing and composing/sending e-mail.
Schedule
overview and resources
See the Syllabus for a one-page
course outline
- I intend to conduct the sessions on three day event cycles; that is,
- Each Monday and Thursday -- an event or task or assignment set
- Each Tuesday and Friday -- study, reflection, response
- Each Wednesday and Saturday -- threaded discussion of current
topic
- Each Sunday -- a synchronous chat: Drop by
Tapped In at around 13:00 GMT to meet
Vance and other course participants in informal text-based conversation.
Register at Tapped In for free or join in
as a guest. Opportunities for experimentation with other voice and video CMC
tools will be pursued as well.
Click here to
see what time 13:00 GMT is where you are.
- Other synchronous events are scheduled as they come up; details
here: http://www.vancestevens.com/online_events.htm
- I have set up a Yahoo Group to handle our listserv traffic:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multilit
- There is an (optional) 'assigned' text for the course: Selber,
Stuart. (2004). Multiliteracies for a digital age. Carbondale: Southern
Illinois University Press. (See a brief description at
http://www.siu.edu/~siupress/titles/s04_titles/selber_digital.htm)
- Communities of Practice
- For an overview of what's involved in community formation on the
Internet, please see the Webheads in Action portal at
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/webheads.htm
- The Webheads in Action model of community formation has worked
for Webheads over numerous sessions where communities have been successfully
formed, and in some cases still thrive. See
Stevens
(2004a) for one report on these communities.
- Multiliterate Collaborative Networking (or if you prefer, 'chatting'
with friends and colleagues)
News
There is an RSS feed of our YahooGroups output here:
http://rss.groups.yahoo.com/group/multilit/rss
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Now, what to do with these blogs? I would also like to get two or more
volunteers (at least 4 of you each week) to do a recap of each event cycle.
I've done the first one by putting all our introductions on our web pages. I've
also started a recap of 'what is multiliteracy' in the Links area of my web
pages
http://sites.hsprofessional.com/vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/portal2004.htm#links.
Now I would like to get two or more of you working together ... it has to be at
least two, and be together so as to foster collaboration over the Internet ..
on continuing that recap, taking items of substance from the D2L discussion and
elsewhere in our interactions (e.g. YGroups when appropriate). I'd like to get
two or more volunteers to do the same for each Event Cycle AND each team
publish the results in your BLOG or web page (and then tell the rest of us
where to look).
Blogging Safari:
~\
Let's go blogging now, everyone is learning how /~
~\ Come on and safari
with me! /~ (a la Beach Boys)
Almost ALL of us now have blogs (wow!)
In addition, we have been steered to other people's blogs, such as:
Why all this interest in blogs?
http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/week5.htm#blogs
Do you need help starting yours? If so, just let us know!
Getting Started - Sept 1, 2004 - The following gives insights
into what 'multiliteracy' might be ...
Carla Meskill has issued a call for papers for a special issue of
Language Learning & Technology which will examine the many issues related
to electronic literacy, especially as it applies to second language learning.
To quote from the call:
http://llt.msu.edu/vol8num3/call_for_papers.html
This special issue of Language Learning & Technology will examine
the many issues related to electronic literacy, especially as it applies to
second language learning. While it is clear that what we see and hear on
television and computer screens is unique from what we read in print,
frameworks for conceptualizing, analyzing, and integrating into instructional
practices the ways we understand the world through these media are lacking.
What processes constitute our reading of these electronic texts? What does it
mean and will it mean to be electronically literate? How do the experiences we
have with what we see and interact with on screens influence language use? In
what way is electronic literacy impacting the ways we use, teach, and learn
language?
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Influences of socialization processes with and through electronic
texts on second language learning
- Use of linguistic/paralinguistic strategies with electronic texts
- Mediation of first language literacy practices in second language
interactions with electronic texts
- Frameworks and/or processes for seeking, retrieving and making use
of electronic texts
- Second language learners' electronic literacy development in
classroom or out-of-school settings
- Language educators' understandings of electronic literacy and
integration of electronic literacy in the classroom
Bibliography
Selber, Stuart. (2004). Multiliteracies for a
digital age. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.
Stevens, Vance. (2004a). The Skill of
Communication: Technology brought to bear on the art of language learning. In
TESL-EJ 7, 4 (On the Internet). Retrieved August 30, 2004 from:
http://cwp60.berkeley.edu:16080/TESL-EJ/ej28/int.html.
Stevens, V. (2004b). Voices heard having
F.U.N. in online communities of practice: A Presentation by Vance Stevens,
April 3 2004, at the annual TESOL Convention, Long Beach at a Colloquium on
“Multiple perspectives on the on-line conversation class.” Retrieved
August 30, 2004 from:
http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/colloquium2004/fun00.htm.
Tuman, Myron. (1992). Word perfect: Literacy in
the computer age. University of Pittsburg Press.
Kenny, Vincent. Anticipating autopoeisis: Personal construct psychology
and self-organizing systems. (Section 1 Introduction: Varieties of
constructivism). Retrieved May 20, 2005 from
http://www.oikos.org/vincautopo.htm.
A later revised version of this paper was published as - Vincent Kenny
[1989]. Anticipating Autopoiesis: Personal Construct Psychology and
Self-Organizing Systems. In : Self-Organisation in Psychotherapy [ed.] A.
Goudsmit. Springer-Verlag: Heidelberg.
Feedback
from Participants
At the end of the course I wrote to ask what people had
got out of it. Here is a sampling of replies:
- I do want to tell you about my experience with your course ... (1) I
had my first experience with an online conference; although I had read about
them, I had never experienced one myself; (2) I chatted about academic isues
with more than just one person at a time... this was in Tapped In with
Webheads; (3) now I understand what a practice community is... although I
belong to a few, I have not seen so much collaboration and caring as with
Webheads; (4) I learned about blogs... I had no idea they existed before your
class. All this, I think, it's much more than enough to say that taking your
course was really worthwhile.
- I very much enjoyed the Multiliteracies course, and I appreciate all
the resources you opened up for us along the way! In fact, I found it unique
among the courses offered in the certificate program in that it led us to
another level of thinking about the political and sociological meaning of the
online work we were/are creating.
- As to the course, I have to say it was one of the most overwhelming,
the least structured and by every stretch of the imagination the most helpful
and mind expanding course I have taken from TESOL. It is a course that has
changed my very direction. It was frustrating not to have it all set from the
beginning or to know well in advance what to be expected, but as I grew
"comfortable with this discomfort" I learned how far more than from a more
structured syllabus. One of the reasons I was feeling overwhelmed (other than
all of my land based demands) was perhaps the same as a language learner feels.
"There is so much to know," " I don't want to be the stupid one," " just tell
be exactly what to do and don't leave me out here to the think for myself--my
goodness--a fate worse than death." What I learned from you was to think about
technology, as before I had only found it something to be conquered and
controlled. I have learned that it is more of a bucking bronco and to enjoy the
ride instead of trying to tame it. Your course has given me a lot more courage
that I can figure out new ways to help my student teachers to teach, to assess,
to expand student's minds, and to encourage exploration. Thank you for all of
this. It was a special gift.
&etc.
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