World's Strongest Dad

http://www.cjcphoto.com/can/

Meshing Our Emerging Beliefs About Digital Literacies with NCTE Guidelines and Emerging Projects: August 19-25

I thought it would be interesting to explore in conversation how our emerging common beliefs and differing beliefs about digital literacies interact with NCTE's Guidelines to Multi-Modal Literacy and some projects across the country that give voice to students, providing for access, diversity, and relevancy.
Given our varied backgrounds with life and teaching and experiences using D.L., respond to NCTE's beliefs: what makes sense, what is lacking, what might we want to make sure becomes foundational pieces for D.L. in the MWP arena?
How do these projects give voice to students so they can tell their stories? Do the processes and products encourage/require critical meaning making with and from the new literacies?

I linked a couple of those sites. Perhaps you know of more? Email me or Christa with the Title and a URL and we can link those sites as well.

And the "tag" game continues (courtesy of Claudia).

D.U.S.T.Y. - Digital Underground Story Telling for Youth

http://oaklanddusty.org/index.php

City Voices, City Vision - Student Video Projects

http://www.gse.buffalo.edu/org/cityvoices/productions.html

NCTE Guidelines to Multi-Modal Literacies

http://www.ncte.org/edpolicy/multimodal/resources/123213.htm

Textured Literacies: August 12 - 18

Henry Jenkins, (2006), in his occasional paper, Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century places digital literacies within the framework of current literacy practices. Read the statement below and write everything and anything that comes to mind as a reponse to his statement. You may want to "take a line for a walk" by beginning your writing with a phrase from the quote. Once you have posted your response, respond to others' postings throughout the week.



"Much writing about twenty-first century literacies seems to assume that communicating through visual, digital, or audiovisual media will displace reading and writing. Before students can engage with the new participatory culture, they must be able to read and write. Just as the emergence of written language changed oral traditions and the emergence of printed texts changed our relationship to written language, the emergence of new digital modes of expression changes our relationship to printed texts.



"Quote taken from:Jenkins, A (2006. Confronting the challenges of participatory culture: Media education for the 21st century. Retrieved February 28, 2007, from The macarthy foundation Web site: http://www.digitallearning.macfound.org/

He is my Great-Grandfather

He is my Great-Grandfather
He lives in Wisconsin
I live in New Hampshire
He is old
I am young
He is lonely
I am too

He is the one who put the
worm on my fishing pole
I am the one who threw the
line into the water
He is the one who helped me
bring in my first fish
I am the one who thought it
was a great blue whale
When in reality it was a five inch sunfish

He is the one I love
He is the one I always will

He is my great-grandfather
I am his great-grandson

Toby M.
100 Quickwrites

Think about someone you like to do things with and write as quickly as you can for 8 minutes all that comes to mind when you think of that person and all you do together.

Try writing about that person using the contrast of "he" or "she" and "I".

Think of a grandparent and write as quickly and as specifically as you can, the things you do together.