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• Week 1: Sept 13-19
  • Event cycle 1: Getting to know one another and setting up the mechanics of a community
  • Event cycle 2: What is multiliteracy?
• Week 2: Sept 20-26
  • Event cycle 3: How multiliteracies apply to collaborative learning environments
  • Event cycle 4: Theoretical framework for multiliteracies
• Week 3: Sept 27-Oct 3
  • Event cycle 5a: What kinds of multiple literacies are there?
  • Event cycle 5b: Functional literacy
• Week 4: Oct 4-Oct 10
  • Event cycle 6: Critical literacy
  • Event cycle 7: Rhetorical literacy
  • Sunday, October 10 - : meet at http://www.tappedin.org at noon GMT to experiment with text, voice, and web cam collaboration tools and environments. Register with Tapped In and http://www.learningtimes.net beforehand. Install Elluminate from Learning Times and iVisit from http://www.ivisit.com

Here are the questions that were put to the group
and the number of responses each had generated by October 9, 2004

What is Multiliteracy in Collaborative Learning Environments?
So what do you think multiliteracy is (as it might relate to collaborative learning environments)? You might want to start with your definition of the term, and we'll take it from there ...

• What is multiliteracy? (51 msgs)
  Let's try to arrive at a definition (like trying to define 'blended' learning) ...
• How do you think multiliteracy might apply to collaborative learning environments? (55 msgs)
  We'll get some seeds of thought going here and then nurture them with perspective from readings and other media ...

Theoretical framework for multiliteracies
We'll examine some of the theoretical issues in multiliteracies

• What learning theories do you feel are most compatible with your conception of multiliteracies? (2 msgs)
  What are some differences between constructionist and constructivist viewpoints? Which do you think are most compatible with multilteracy frameworks? (18 msgs - 0 unread)
• What have you found out about the contribution of the New London Group to the concept of multiliteracies? (8 msgs)

Types of multiliteracies

• What kinds of multiliteracies are there? (5 msgs)
  Selber narrows it down to functional, critical, and rhetorical. But is this a comprehensive list? Are there other kinds of literacies?
• What is functional literacy? (6 msgs)
  To Selber this is the literacy associated with doing things with technology; what you need to know to make it work and discuss what you are doing with others. Anything else?
• What is critical literacy? (0 msgs)
  To Selber this is the literacy associated with evaluating and critiquing the various impacts and implications of use of technology, and of course, discussing this with others. Anything else?
• What is rhetorical literacy? (2 msgs)
  To Selber this is the literacy associated with communicating through digital media. Anything else?

Funtional literacy
a consideration of the functional aspect of multiliteracy

• The Tool Metaphor (1 msgs)
  In considering Selber's assigning both positive and negative ramifications of the tool metaphor on educational settings, how do you think this metaphor applies in your own context?
• Parameters of Functional Literacy (1 msgs)
  Refering to the book or our synopsis in the syllabus, comment on any of the 5 parameters of functional literacy introduced by Selber. What do they mean? How do they apply to you?

Critical literacy

• What power moves do you encounter in your work and experience with using technology? (1 msgs - 0 unread)
  Please see Maryanne's synopsis at http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/event_cycle6.htm and comment accordingly.

Rhetorical Literacy
In which we discuss the meaning and ramifications of the rhetorical aspects of multiliteracy

• Production vs. connection paradigm (0 msgs)
  Regarding Rae's reflections on Selber's chapter on Rhetorical Literacy, it strikes me that by setting forums and discussion topics in D2L we encourage the production paradigm. Does your experience in these discussions suggest ways that production can be channeled into connection or communication?

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