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Visual Literacy – Making Meaning
“We must prepare young people for living in a world of powerful images, words and sounds.” UNESCO, 1982 I have been thinking about the concept of visual literacy a lot lately and its significance to...
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The meaning of colour
An understanding of symbolism is at the heart of effective visual representation and I’m going to focus on exploring this in more depth with my senior classes to better prepare them for visual...
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xtimeline – could it make timelines interesting?
History is one of my passions in life, but I’ve never found timelines very interesting activities. This could all change with xtimeline, which helps you create a timeline on any subject and multiple...
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Being the change you want to see
In a previous post, Lighting Fires, Not Filling Buckets, I wrote about my Year 10 class which created some imaginative digital protest texts. The task was fairly open-ended and I was really pleased...
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Lifting the fog
As an English teacher, I spend a lot of time thinking about what it means to be literate. It seems obvious to me that “literacy” has connotations that extend beyond the ability to read and write. This...
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Why Design Matters…
Dean Shareski has created a Design Matters Keynote for the 2007 Flat Classroom Project. This is a remix of his presentation for the K-12 Online Conference in which Shareski challenges the fact that...
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This video from Ira Glass, radio host of USA’s This American Life on National Public Radio, provides pertinent advice for those of us, teachers and students, who are trying (and failing) to create...
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Digital Narratives
The Ditigal Narrative has heaps of resources and links to other websites that explore digital storytelling and new media.
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