New Literacies in 120 Seconds
I’m one of the co-writers of an online staff development project sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English Pathways Program devoted to 21st Century Literacies. They are asking me to produce a two-minute (maximum) video clip to introduce the concept: What are 21st Century Literacies? I have a June 30 deadline to get it to them. I’d welcome any ideas on how to describe what exactly new literacies are in a visually compelling way. If I use your idea, you’ll receive credit!
Also, I think there may be some funding to go out early this fall and tape innovative teachers who are using Web 2.0 in their classrooms. Any nominations of worthy classrooms would be welcome! If you don’t want to leave a comment here, please email me at: wkist@kent.edu
posted by William Kist @ 12:49 PM >5 Comments 
5 Comments:
Hi Bill,
I think I'd be tempted to do screen captures and photos that show either 21st lit text and/or students working on them or reading them. Perhaps with some voice over on how our notions of literacy and text are evolving.
traci
Is there a good way to visualize the movement of an idea or piece of information from written text to video to conversation to audio to video, etc? Michael Wesch did some really interesting work with this is some of his video work - but I'd love to see a student's path from reference to creation to re-mix to re-creation, etc. I just don't know how to do it.
Come visit me in my class in Palmerston North, New Zealand ... we would show you
* blogging - reading and writing, building conversations
* skype
* web searches
* wiki use for link storage for tpic work
* movie and podcast creation to share on our blogs
* skitch of our class paper resources ....
what else ....
I've got some photos of us using web 2.0 on the classroom you are welcome to... email me if these are of use.
Bud - the idea from concept to written to video is great - maybe filming the kids doing this, or still image of each of the stages and scanning their written work???
Quick idea...show the variety of ways people communicate and participate in society/ culture outside of school (CNN/YouTube presidential debates, Texting, Cell phones, iTunes)-- What goes on in conventional English classes will look strange in comparison...not new literacy practices.
Chris
I would suggest using the pecha kucha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pecha_Kucha
presentations format.
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