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By Katt on Mar 17, 2008 in Hows and Whys, Pedagogy, technology | 1 Comment
The first year I taught, I initiated a concept that I called “Virtual Office Hours.” The concept was relatively simple. I provided my students with information for each of my online messengers, added each of them as friends, and set up regular hours. I kept about 3 hours a day for the first semester and [...]
By Katt on Mar 14, 2008 in Pedagogy, theapple.com | 2 Comments
We’ve all said it. “Technology is the wave of the future.” There’s no denying that. It’s actually the wave of the present. I know that every teacher in academe today has heard that the need to use technology in the classroom is imperative now. If we are going to engage our students in the class [...]
By Katt on Oct 28, 2007 in Blogroll, Recommended Reading | 0 Comments
Hagood, Margaret C. “New Media and Online Literacies: No Age Left Behind.” Reading Research Quarterly (Summer 2003): 387-391.
Margaret Hagood’s “New Media and Online Literacies” asserts that in order to understand the full benefit of literacy acquisition through new medias researchers must use a close examination of the texts they study in order to comprehend the [...]
By Katt on Oct 28, 2007 in Blogroll, Recommended Reading | 0 Comments
Hobbs, Renee and Richard Frost. “Measuring the Acquisition of Media-Literacy Skills.” Reading Research Quarterly. 38.3 (Summer 2003): 330-355.
In “Measuring the Acquisition of Media-Literacy Skills” (2003), Hobbs and Frost explore the acquisition of media-literacy skills in a yearlong high school English course and demonstrate how this class improved the literacy of the students. Examining one specific [...]
By Katt on Oct 22, 2007 in Recommended Reading | 2 Comments
Goodfellow, Robin: Online Literacies and Learning: Operational, Cultural and Critical Dimensions. Language and Education 18.5 (2004): 379-399.
In “Online Literacies and Learning,” Robin Goodfellow argues that online environments provide immense ways of improving the social literacies of todays students and examines a manner of research which explores the variation in relationships between teacher and student both [...]
