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