It’s the End of the World As We Know It (and I feel fine)
New Technologies, Literacies, and Writing Instruction
Kathryn Nielsen-Dube and Kathleen Shine Cain, Writing Center
Bridget Rawding, McQuade Library
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
How do you read listservs, blogs, personal e-mails, or text messages as opposed to books, journals or newsletters?
How do you write for listservs, blogs, personal e-mails, or text
messages as opposed to books, journals or newsletters?
How has the Internet and e-mail altered the ways in which you collaborate with colleagues on your writing, or even in professional discussions?
How has word-processing technology (e.g., Track Changes) altered your writing process?
How has the sheer volume of information and speed of transmission affected scholarship in your
discipline?
Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
Technology and Resistance 1.0TrainingCostPrivacyIntellectual Property IssuesTechno Pedagogy Assessment
Technopedagogical Collaboration 2.0Internships and Service learningTapping the Living DatabaseTeaching and Learning CirclesConversations in Teaching and LearningWorkshops : Powerpoint, collaborative
projects, interacting with experts, managing email, internet research strategies, web development
YOUR STUDENTS
Benefits 2.0Pragmatic: Giving students experience with
the tools they will use on the jobMore strategies to reach students with
different learning stylesMultiple Pathways for PublicationInter/Cross Cultural Interconnectivity
Drawbacks 2.0The World Wide WastebasketCan n e 1 spel ne thing ne moor?A Global Village of Village Idiots Facebook may well own your conference and
family pet pictures!Technological FailurePedagogical Failure
New Media/Old SkillsIt’s still about information literacy, but…
Critical reading, traditional research and composition are no longer the whole picture
New kinds of information sources
New LiteraciesEvaluating information in the “new media”
Visual/Media Literacy
Participatory Culture
Expanding notion of “writing”
New Compositions
Expanding the relationships
Learning a new medium
Composing in a new medium
New Assignments
Wikipedia Projectshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:School_and_university_projects
Student Video Projects at Dartmouth Collegehttp://www.dartmouth.edu/~videoprojects/index.html
A Vision of Students Today
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o