Lankshear, Colin, Ilena Snyder and Bill Green. Teachers and TechnoLiteracy: Managing Literacy, Technology and Learning in Schools. St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin: 2000.

Lankshear, Snyder, and Green examine the impact of technology on literacy and learning using the 3D model as a holistic and culturally critical means of studying this trend in literacy. Asserting that literacy has three interconnected facets, the operational, cultural, and critical, the authors demonstrate that all literacies are socially intertwined and, therefore, none should be omitted from classroom usage. Lankshear, Snyder, and Green address potential literacy educators and provide a solid model for analyzing the usefulness of technology in the classroom. Through their model and analysis, the authors urge new educators to consider incorporating new literacies into their classroom.

While Lankshear, Snyder, and Green are focusing on the evaluation of medias for instructional use, their work extends well beyond the classroom. The 3D model they outline in their text allows for researchers engaged in any media to fully evaluate the media as a social literacy. This model proves highly effective for my study and will, likely, become the basis for the message boards I am examining.