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The 2007 rendition of this course follows fast on my Sept 8 appearance at the Virtual Strand of the EuroCALL conference, where I addresssed the issue of aggregation of content on the Web 2.0: http://www.pageflakes.com/vancestevens/13493912. The week before that I was in Egypt speaking on much the same topic: http://tinyurl.com/398bnw. All this followed on my work this past year with the WritingMatrix project, http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com/, culminating in a series of lectures this summer on applications of aggregation techniques to writing: http://www.vancestevens.com/writing.htm. While intensely channeling innovation, ideas, and development into these projects, I have evolved my thinking on multiliteracies and revised my approach to this topic slightly beyond the focus of previous years.

• 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 Synchronous Sunday -- a synchronous chat: Drop by Tapped In before or after 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 how to figure out 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

Your topics CHECKLIST from Sept 10 onwards ...
Here are all the things you should have done so far, and that have been suggested for the near future:

• Week 1: Sept 10-16, 2007
  - What is multiliteracy? The mechanics of online communities: social networking and collaborative learning portals
  • Event cycle 1: Getting to know one another and setting up the mechanics of a community
    1. Enroll at the Moodle http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/course/view.php?id=23.
    2. Add your picture to our Frappr map which you find at the Moodle
    3. Sign up at Wikispaces: http://www.wikispaces.com.
       Then request to JOIN this wikispace: http://portfolios2007.wikispaces.com/
       You can keep your portfolio here (your introduction and writings for this course, or create links to your blog or other web artifacts here).
       If you wish to earn the certificate, your portfolio should include
       • Your personal introduction started on your page
       • Links to your blog with postings tagged pp107tesol, and other artifacts produced for this course
       • A thoughtful critique of at least TWO resources encountered in this course (please check other participants' pages so that you critique items not selected by others in this course)
         • The resources are listed
           • On the LINKS page
           • At the Moodle http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/course/view.php?id=23
           • in the syllabus for 2007
         • Here are more thoughts on communities, from a slide presentation by Vance Sept. 28, 2007:
           
           Essentially learning communities enable teachers to
           * learn new tools and techniques from one another
           * to try them out on one another, increasing familiarity and understanding of the most useful tools
           * and then - competently use them with students
           * inculcate their use in students, so that students become more multiliterate
           
           Teachers have two important responsibilities in this new age of educational technology
           1. learn appropriate use of new tools and technologies themselves
           2. use these with students so that student in turn become multiliterate
           
           There are two fruitful concepts in which to frame the cooperation which fulfills these responsibilities:
           1. Communities of practice
              e.g. Etienne Wenger's talk at WiAOC 2007 (Conversation with Suzanne Nyrop): http://www.webheadsinaction.org/wiaoc2007/EtienneWenger
              Slides: http://www.flickr.com/photos/netopnyrop/503628210/in/set-72157600229137116/
              Part 1 of the conversation: http://streamarchives.net/node/56
              Part 2 of the conversation: http://streamarchives.net/node/55
           2. Distributed Learning Networks
              e.g. Stephen Downes talk at WiAOC 2007 - Personal Learning the Web 2.0 Way: http://www.webheadsinaction.org/wiaoc2007/StephenDownes
              Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/personal-learning-the-web-20-way
              Part 1 of his talk: http://streamarchives.net/node/84
              Part 2 of his talk: http://streamarchives.net/node/83
              
       • Mon Sept 10 - To introduce the topic, please read:
         • Stevens, Vance. (2006). Revisiting multiliteracies in collaborative learning environments: Impact on teacher professional development. TESL-EJ, Volume 10, Number 2: http://www.tesl-ej.org/ej38/int.html
         • Stevens, Vance. (2007). Unarticle: Unleashing the tranformative power of the unorganized Internet. TESL-EJ, Volume 10, Number 4: http://www.tesl-ej.org/ej40/int.html
         • Dieu, Barbara, and Vance Stevens. (2007), Pedagogical affordances of syndication, aggregation, and mash-up of content on the Web. TESL-EJ, Volume 11, Number 1: http://tesl-ej.org/ej41/int.html
       • Tue Sept 11 - Study, reflection, response, suggestions, feedback (some participants started wiki pages)
       • Wed Sept 12 - Please contribute to threaded discussion, start blogs, tag postings
         • Respond to this forum in the Moodle: http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/mod/forum/view.php?id=706&group=19
         • While reviewing these materials, create a blog OR in an existing blog create a post about what you think multiliteracies is.
           If you need to know HOW to create a blog, here are instructions for How to start a blog at Blogger: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/blogger_tutorial.htm
           • TAG your posts pp107tesol
           • Later we'll look for your posts at http://www.technorati.com/posts/tag/pp107tesol
       • Event cycle 2: What kinds of multiple literacies are there?
         • Thu Sept 13 - We start out by examining how knowledge is organized via metadata on the Internet; folksonomies vs. taxonomies:
           • I asked that you view Wesch, Michael. The machine is us/using us (a short video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE&mode=related&search=. Note that there are transcripts of this video:
             • http://justaddwater.dk/2007/02/08/web-20-video-complete-transcript/
             • and by its creator here: http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=78
           • And then watch David Weinberger and Andrew Keen debate Weinberger's thesis in his most recent book, All Things Miscellaneous, posted by Kevin Werbach July 9, 2007 in Conversations Hub: Supernova 2007:
             • http://conversationhub.com/2007/07/09/video-david-weinberger-and-andrew-keen/.
             • For the direct video link http://conversationhub.com/podpress_trac/web/259/0/sn-weinberger-keen.mp4
               
               
               
               
         • Fri Sept 14 - Study, reflection, response, suggestions, feedback
         • Sat Sept 15 - Please contribute to threaded discussion and tag your blog postings
           The Moodle discussion on Keen vs. Weinberger is here: http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/mod/forum/view.php?f=302
         • Sun Sept 16 - 12:00-14:00 GMT synchronous online events:
           • From noon GMT, text chat at http://www.tappedin.org.
           • From 13:00 GMT Talking Multiliteracies Webcast at http://www.webcastacademy.net/listen
             Skype vancestev to participate, or listen to the stream - text chat at http://www.webcastacademy.net/chat or TappedIn
           • See http://www.vancestevens.com/online_events.htm for further details

• Week 2: Sept 17-23, 2007
  • Event cycle 3: A Theoretical framework for multiliteracies: How multiliteracies apply to collaborative learning environments
    • Mon Sept 17 - Introduce topic
      • Here is a good 'first read' on the topic: Lorenzo, Oblinger, and Dziuban: Technology and the way information is created, used, and disseminated have changed, as has the definition of "net savvy" - The original white paper from Oct 2004 is here: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI3008.pdfhttp://www.learningcircuits.org/2007/0207gronstedt.htm
      • The seminal work on multiliteracies: The New London Group (1996). A pedagogy of Multiliteracies. Harvard Educational Review. http://l-by-d.com/Multiliteracies%20HER%20Vol%2066%201996.pdf
      • You might be interested in glancing over: Bill Cope, Mary Kalantzis. (2000). Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures (A Google Scholar ebook) http://snipurl.com/cope_kalantzis
      • Podcast103: Digital Storytelling in the Classroom: Wesley Fryer's conception of literacies required for the new future http://www.speedofcreativity.org/?p=1515
    • Tue Sept 18 - Study, reflection, response, suggestions, feedback
    • Wed Sept 19 - Please contribute to threaded discussion, and tag your blog postings
      The discussion forum, What is Multiliteracies, is here: http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/mod/forum/view.php?f=246
      and specifically for 2007: http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/mod/forum/view.php?id=707
  • Event cycle 4: Managing Infomation: Utilizing RSS, tags, feed readers, podcasting and podcatching
    Thu Sept 20 - Introduce topic
    • Read David Warlick: on Blogosphere as collaborative environment. http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2005/08/15/four-reasons-why-the-blogsphere-might-make-a-better-professional-collaborative-environment-than-discussion-forums/
    • View and listen to Will Richardson's: "RSS: The New Killer App for Educators". Description page: http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=679449; direct link: https://www.elluminate.com/site/pmtg.jnlp?psid=d429011575.202706
      • RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators, http://www.weblogg-ed.com/rss_for_ed
      • Will's blog, Weblogg-ed dot com: http://www.weblogg-ed.com/
    • For Del.icio.us see http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/sudan2007/syl_delicious.htm
    Fri Sept 21 - Study, reflection, response, suggestions, feedback
    Sat Sept 22 - Please contribute to threaded discussion, and tag your blog postings
    http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/mod/forum/view.php?id=984
    Sun Sept 23 - 12:00-14:00 GMT synchronous event scheduled
    • From noon GMT, text chat at http://www.tappedin.org.
    • From 13:00 GMT Talking Multiliteracies Webcast at http://www.webcastacademy.net/listen
      Skype vancestev to participate, or listen to the stream - text chat at http://www.webcastacademy.net/chat or TappedIn
    • See http://www.vancestevens.com/online_events.htm for further details
  
  
• Week 3: Sept 24-30, 2007
  • Monday Sept 24, 25, 26 - Scheduled time out: reading and reflection
    A chance for everyone to catch up, view presentations missed, read over materials, respond in forums and blogs
  • Event cycle 5 - Aspects of multileracies
    Thu Sept 27 - Introduce topic: Functional, critical, rhetorical, and any other multiliteracies -
    • Study the materials this course has developed regarding Selber's tripartite conception of multiliteracies: Functional, Rhetorical, and Critical
      • Functional literacy: http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/event_cycle5.htm
      • Critical literacy : http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/event_cycle6.htm
      • Rhetorical literacy : http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/tesol/ppot/event_cycle7.htm
        
    Fri Sept 28 - Study, reflection, response, suggestions, feedback
    Have a look at the pages above and let us know how this breakdown resonates with you. Selber was in 2004 the latest word in Multiliteracies. Do you feel his analysis is still relevant today? In what way (would you agree or not?)
    Sat Sept 29 - Please contribute to threaded discussion
    http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/mod/forum/view.php?f=312
    Sun Sept 30 - 12:00-15:00 GMT
    • From noon GMT, synchronoustext chat at http://www.tappedin.org.
    • You can now hear the 13:00 GMT Talking Multiliteracies Webcast at http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/entry/2007-10-05T06_44_10-07_00
      Skype vancestev to participate, or listen to the stream - text chat at http://www.webcastacademy.net/chat or TappedIn
    • 14:00 GMT on the Worldbridges Network, New Media Literacies in Learning Landscapes Institute discussion and questions session http://edtechtalk.com/node/2289 - more information at http://www.jarche.com/?p=1315
    • See http://www.vancestevens.com/online_events.htm for further details
  
  
• Week 4: Oct 1-Oct 7, 2005
  Web 2.0 and an overview of free tools available on the read-write web
  • Event cycle 6:
    Mon Oct 1 - Introduce topic
    Study the links from these starter pages
    • http://www.vancestevens.com/casting.htm
    • http://www.homestead.com/prosites-vstevens/files/efi/papers/sudan2007/web20workshop.htm
    • New (aimed at Intermediate L2 students): Internet Search: Notekeeping and Bookmarking from Anywhere Online
    
    Tue Oct 2 - Study, reflection, response, suggestions, feedback
    You were asked to ...
    • Open an account at Google Reader http://www.google.com/reader or http://bloglines.com/
      You can listen to: "What if our students started using Google Reader" http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?p=127
    • Locate RSS feeds of blogs, YahooGroups postings, etc that you follow now or that you think would be useful
    • Share these with other participants through our Moodle forum set up for that purpose.
      http://www.opensource.idv.tw/moodle/mod/forum/view.php?id=984
      • Some mentioned: - http://tesl-ej.org
      • http://teachersteachingteachers.org/
    • Here are the Multiliteracy group blogs listed at http://portfolios2007.wikispaces.com/ (and also aggregated at http://www.pageflakes.com/vancestevens/13498617) as of Sept 29
      • Buth: http://multilit2fit.blogspot.com/
      • eBob: http://roadtolibrary.blogspot.com/
      • Gwen: http://multihumm.blogspot.com/
      • Jim: http://tinyurl.com/3eycob
      • Nelba: http://englishvirtualcommunity.blogspot.com/
      • Simon: http://simongibbs.blogspot.com/
      • Vance: http://adVancEducation.blogspot.com/
        and http://vance_stevens.podomatic.com/
    • Set up Bloglines or Google Reader feeds for the RSS streams you'd like to follow.
    • Get an account at http://del.icio.us and tag all the above sites pp107tesol
    Wed Oct 3 - Please contribute to threaded discussion, and tag your blog postings
  • Event cycle 7:
    Thu Oct 4 - Introduce topic
    There are two topics for this last event cycle, described below
    Fri Oct 5 - Study, reflection, response, suggestions, feedback <-- We are here now
    Sat Oct 6 - Please contribute to threaded discussion, and tag your blog postings
    Sun Oct 7 - 12:00-14:00 GMT Graduation Ceremony at http://www.tappedin.org. See http://www.vancestevens.com/online_events.htm for further details
    • From noon GMT, text chat at http://www.tappedin.org.
    • From 13:00 GMT Talking Multiliteracies Webcast at http://www.webcastacademy.net/listen
      Skype vancestev to participate, or listen to the stream - text chat at http://www.webcastacademy.net/chat or TappedIn
      Find the recorded webcast at http://www.webcastacademy.net/node/1385

Topics for the last week:

For more about how feeds of feeds can be aggregated in a process called Newsmastering, see: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/robin-good-syndicaat/

Topic one: Let's see how we can locate each other's blog postings and share social bookmarks

Del.icio.us - Have a look here: http://del.icio.us/vancestevens/pp107tesol

Technorati:

• To see how it's SUPPOSED to work check this: http://www.technorati.com/posts/tag/writingmatrix
  • Notice that Sasha's BLOG posting is listed: http://rostilj.blogspot.com/2007/09/another-school-year-begins.html
  • My Slideshare tagged links are listed e.g. http://www.slideshare.net/vances/vance-stevens-28-sept-2007
  • but NOT my blog postings - WHY NOT??
• We've all been tagging our posts pp107tesol but nothing shows up here: http://www.technorati.com/posts/tag/pp107tesol
  • WHY NOT??
  • There is a nut here we have to crack. I notice that everyone has been tagging posts pp107tesol (except btw Jim .. you have to go back and edit and add the tesol at the end of your tags). However, Technorati is not picking up a single one of these. WHY NOT??? I've written them and asked. So far no response, and this is a real project for us. Why don't we aggregate on Technorati?? There's a project for this group. If someone can crack it I'll count it as a critique.

Topic two: I'm very curious about the videos offered by ElderBob here: http://portfolios2007.wikispaces.com/ElderBob

• Have a look at as many of these as you think are interesting
• Below the videos, make annotations
• I've had a look at a few. I'll put in some annotations.

Graduation

I have set a minimum requirement for certification which is given at the portfolios HOME page: http://portfolios2007.wikispaces.com/. There it says:

If you are going for a certificate from TESOL here, your portfolio on your page should include *

• Your personal introduction started on your page
• Links to your blog with postings tagged pp107tesol, and other artifacts produced for this course *
• A thoughtful critique of at least TWO resources encountered in this course (please check other participants' pages so that you critique items not selected by others in this course

The course runs until Oct 7 and at some point after that I need to send Srisucha at TESOL a list of those who have met the minimum requirements, which I have set myself, and which we can negotiate if you have something else in mind. In that case, just write me personally. So if you haven't done your work by Oct 7 but intend to meet whatever requirements we agree to you just need to let me know when you plan to meet them so that I will know when to let Srisucha know who to award certificates to.

Copyright 2007 by Vance Stevens
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