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Syllabus for
2005:
Multiliteracies for Collaborative Learning Environments
Course Content: 7 Event Cycles |
- The course is conducted 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,
suggestions, feedback
- 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
- Prequel: Sept 9-11, 2005
Visit The Knowplace community
http://knowplace.ca and participate in either
or both of these events:
- Connect Online with Elderbob promises a family focus as we
celebrate grandparents' day this weekend. Elderbob likes to explore all sorts
of strange and unique things. He is passionate about helping others learn to
drive the information highway, finds life terribly exciting, extremely positive
and views every new day as a wonderful gift to open.
- Facilitating in Moodle with Frances Long. Have you thought of
working in moodle with your clients or students? This is an opportunity for you
to learn a few tips and tricks of working with moodle. Which tools for which
job? How do I...? Frances is the 24/7 driving energy of Knowplace and an
internationally recognized expert in the building and nurturing of online
learning communities. She feels as though she lives online (believe me she
does!) although actually living in Vancouver, BC Canada. She is one of the
knowmads who work behind and in front of the knowplace learning community.
- Week 1: Sept 12-18, 2005
- Event cycle 1:Getting to know one another and setting up the
mechanics of a community
Mon Sept 12 - Introduce topic
Tue Sept 13 -
Study, reflection, response, suggestions, feedback
Wed Sept 14 - Please
contribute to threaded discussion
- Event cycle 2:
What is multiliteracy?: What kinds of
multiple literacies are there?
Thu Sept 15 - Introduce topic
Fri Sept 16
- Study, reflection, response, suggestions, feedback
Sat Sept 17 - Please
contribute to threaded discussion
Sun Sept 18 - 13:00 GMT synchronous text
chat at http://www.tappedin.org. Register
with Tapped In beforehand. Followed each Sunday at 14:00 GMT by EdTech Talk,
global times and 'tune in' links at http://edtechtalk.com/, a webcast hosted by
Jeff Lebow at Worldbridges, at http://worldbridges.com/livewire/.
This looonggg session (webheads at noon GMT, Worldbridges 1400 to 1700, and a
Macromedia Breeze session from 1700 till late) was attended on this day by
Vance, Dafne, Buthaina, Elder Bob, Dennis Oliver, and Holly Dilatush (from this
group).
- Week 2: Sept 19-25, 2005
- Week 3: Sept 26-Oct 2, 2005
- Week 4: Oct 3-Oct 9, 2005
- Event cycle 6: Critical literacy
Mon Oct 3 - Introduce
topic
Tue Oct 4 - Study, reflection, response, suggestions, feedback
Wed
Oct 5 - Please contribute to threaded discussion
- Event cycle 7: Rhetorical literacy
Thu Oct 6 - Introduce
topic
Fri Oct 7 - Study, reflection, response,
suggestions, feedback
Sat Oct 8 - Please contribute to threaded discussion
The following online events are also available
Oct 7, 8, and 9 ...
Open Weekends@Knowplace.
http://knowplace.ca/moodle_1.4.3/course/category.php?id=7
These workshops are free and require only that you come in, introduce yourself
and participate.
- Is this your first visit to Knowplace? You will be asked to register,
http://knowplace.ca/moodle_1.4.3/course/view.php?id=69
Once you have registered, the course will be available to you at noon PDT,
Friday .
- If this is your first time using Moodle, we recommend you browse
through the Use Knowplace
http://knowplace.ca/moodle_1.4/course/view.php?id=19
course.
- ** New Hours ** The hours for open weekend events are being extended
to better accommodate our participants from outside the Americas enabling them
to review the workshop content and post. The workshops will open at 9 a.m.
Pacific time and close at Sunday at midnight. Most facilitators will be active
between Friday and Sunday afternoons depending upon their "home" time zones.
OCT 7 - 9 **
- ** "Connect Online: with Elderbob Brannan ** Aggregators and
blogs....Alligators and bloggoblins....If you are not quite sure how to use an
aggregator to subscribe to a syndicated blog, or how to create a Google Alert,
or if you don't even know what an aggregator is.... before long you might just
find your self in a pool of alligators and bloggoblins. Regardless of the
business you are in, YOU need to know about RSS. Without such knowledge your
personal future looks dark and gloomy. Join me, Elderbob, the Knowplace mad
scientist, this weekend on a tour through the internet swamp for a close up
look at Alligators, Aggregators, Bloggoblins and RSS. See 'ya there.
- ** Facilitating in Moodle with Carole Cotton ** Have you thought of
working in moodle with your clients or students? This is an opportunity for you
to learn a few tips and tricks of working with moodle. Which tools for which
job? How do I...? Offered regularly once a month by Carole Cotton & Frances
Long. You will have the opportunity to access resources, to play in the Moodle
Sandbox and to have fun. The sandbox is wiped clean after each weekend, but if
you would like to host an Open Weekend, we will create a Moodle space for you
and support you as you develop its content. Carole, a consultant and
efacilitator, designs and facilitates professional development workshops and
courses for career professionals.
| Sunday, October 9, 2005, 13:00-14:00 GMT - Start at Tapped In:
http://www.tappedin.org. We can discuss
issues in the course and branch into audio / video as when ready and as
appropriate. Wrap up: reflection and resolution of the foregoing; followed at
14:00 GMT by EduTalk at http://worldbridges.com/livewire/ |
In the 2004 desire
to learn portal, 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? (6 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? (7 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? (6 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? (6 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 (8 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
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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