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Resources for 2005

Current resources for 2006 are listed at the course Moodle

The course textbook (more information): Multiliteracies for a Digital Age by Stuart A. Selber, February 2004, paperback, Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN# 0-8093-2551-9, $27.00 http://www.siu.edu/~siupress/titles/s04_titles/selber_digital.htm (link not working Sept 8, 2005) An undergraduate review: Reactions to Multiliteracies for a Digital Age by Alison Bennett: http://people.emich.edu/abennet1/a444/multlit2.htm

I'm bookmarking here some resources I might use for the upcoming course in Sept-Oct 2005. More are being collected on the Course Moodle at http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/course/view.php?id=23

• Rich-Media Online Presentation Tools at http://www.presenternet.com/robingood/player.html
• Jan 31, 2005 Recording: "RSS: The New Killer App for Educators" with Will Richardson by Will Richardson This live session hosted inside the Webheads "Member Office" in LearningTimes.org was part of a six-week online workshop in the use of weblogs in English Language Teaching. The overall workshop -- entitled "Using Weblogs in ESL/EFL Classes: New Developments, Uses, and Challenges" -- targets teachers with some Internet skills who are interested in using "blogs" (or web logs) with their classes or as a reflective tool. This particular session was led by Will Richardson, who maintains Weblogg-ed. Will refers to himself as a "blogvangelist" and is Supervisor of Instructional Technology and Communications at Hunterdon Central Regional High School in Flemington, New Jersey. According to Will, the Weblogg-ed site is "dedicated to discussions and reflections on the use of Weblogs, wikis, RSS, and other Internet-related technologies in the K-12 classroom". Will is also a founding contributer to the Ed Tech Insider Weblog at eSchool News. http://tinyurl.com/dtjcv
• Bernie Dodge gave a conference about Webquests on June 28, 2005. and the archived webcast can be found under June 28. at http://webquest.org/
  http://www.kidzonline.org/webcast/webcast.html?id=99
• Nov 10, 2004 Recording: Building Community and Peace - Using the Web Locally, Internationally, Incrementally, and Inexpensively by Steve Gilbert, Jonathan Finkelstein, Lorraine Leo, Buthaina Al Othman, Dr. Erv Boschmann and Joel Fath. How can the web and the internet be used to build communities, support social justice, and move a little closer to world peace? New tools and online resources can help, from the smallest team project within a single course to international programs addressing almost overwhelming challenges. The presenters demonstrated how session participants can take part in this exploration, including taking modest but significant next steps almost immediately. https://www.elluminate.com/site/pmtg.jnlp?psid=d2095699174.191302
  http://tinyurl.com/9ao4n
• Jun 8, 2005 The recording of a live session entitled "RSS - What is it all about?" led by Margaret Granger http://tinyurl.com/8su5v (need to Enter from this URL)
• May 26, 2005 Recording: This interactive webcast was entitled "Is it Age or IT? First Steps Toward Understanding the Net Generation" featured Diana Oblinger, vice president at EDUCAUSE and editor of the recently released eBook entitled "Educating the Net Generation". Groups of participants shared their own thoughts from across Australia, New Zealand, Asia and around the globe. http://tinyurl.com/8b4ey
• Apr 27, 2005 Recordings: Collaborative E-learning Activities to Develop Critical Thinking by Janet Salmons What kinds of e-learning experiences motivate learners to develop higher-order 21st century thinking skills? In the recordings of these live webcasts led by Janet Salmons, participants discuss ways that e-learning activities can encourage learners' progression from receptive understanding to generative thinking. session 1 of 2 http://tinyurl.com/9vxl9 session 2 of 2 http://tinyurl.com/c4vrs

Bibliography and other resources

Downes, Stephen. Stephen's Web at http://www.downes.ca/

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.

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.

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