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What is new about the new literacies?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Cindy Ramsay Jun. 9, 2008.
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Profile Information
- Hometown:
- Port Moody BC
- About Me:
- I love to combine travel and work.I enjoy collaborating with colleages from around the world. I am particularly interested in finding ways that teacher librarians can productively respond to the current challenges posed by technology, economics, culture, and literacy. I am also the mother of four children -- each of whom continues to teach me about what is important for meaningful learning to happen.
- School Name & Location
- University of British Columbia
Vancouver BC Canada
- Teaching Assignment
- I teach courses in literacy and school librarianship at the undergraduate and graduate levels. I coordinate our Facuty's teacher librarianship programs (,http://www.lled.educ.ubc.ca/programs/libe/index.html) and I am currently Deputy Head of the Department of Language and Literacy Education. Some of my work is listed at http://www.lled.educ.ubc.ca/faculty/asselin.htm
- Favorite Authors/Illustrators
- I used to be totally immersed in children's literature but have unhappily drifted away due to other work demands. My favorites "back in the day" were folktales and fairytales from all cultures. As an early childhood educator, I found it very powerful to group these kinds of stories around inquiry themes like Transformations and Beginnings. It was natural to add nonfiction within these themes once you had a core group of traditional literature stories. Now that all my children are grown up and my job is not dependent on using children's literature, I read "adult literature" exclusively. I prefer literature that is relaxing or that really takes me away from everyday life. I actually surprised myself and liked a lot of the Oprah books. And I like British mysteries like those by Peter Robinson. And I like unque pieces like Belle Canto, Memory Keeper's Daughter, I Know this much is True, Holy Cow, and The Skin of the Lion to name a few. I got hooked on Irish romantic stories when I went to Ireland and each time I go I pick up more as they are titles unavailable here. I love books set in places that I've been. I just wish I had more time to indulge in my preferred reading!!
- Best Things about our School Library
- Our school library is actually our department library -- and our Faculty of Education library - both of which fully model how school libraries support teaching and learning in innovative ways.
- My Hopes & Dreams for our School Library
- That it continue to grow as a demonstration center of best practice and state of the art resouces, both print and digital. That its programs are state of the art responses to today's learners and to new conceptions of knowledge.
Marlene Asselin's Blog
Pedgagogy 2.0 article
Dave Cormier tackles the difficult theme of knowledge, using the
metaphor of the rhizome, a plant with no center and no clear boundary,
to describe the way knowledge is created in the context of Web 2.0
technologies. "Knowledge as neg… Continue
Posted on June 1, 2008 at 5:59pm — 2 Comments
Dan Pink - part 2
He has much to say to teacher librarians about automony, assessment and the change process.
Posted on May 27, 2008 at 4:17pm — 1 Comment
Welcome to Part 3 of ED614SL - Theories of Learning: Literacy
Posted on May 26, 2008 at 3:28pm — 2 Comments
Emerging Technologies: Tag clouds in the blogsphere
I just stumbled upon this helpful article succintly introducing new learning technologies that are most relevant to library programs -- http://llt.msu.edu/vol10num2/emerging/default.html
It gives ample information about tagging and semantic webs, blogs and online writing tools, etc without getting too technical. The last section focusses on how to optimize these technologies to support development of new and multiple lite
… ContinuePosted on September 7, 2007 at 3:42pm —
New report on classroom technologies for the future
Long time no voice from me I know -- but I think I can join academia again after an intense few weeks of family events. I just found this new report which speaks volumes to TL matters: (note particulalrly the section on new scholarship)
Classroom Technology Goes Extreme
The New Media Consortium's
Posted on July 10, 2007 at 11:04pm — 1 Comment
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Karla
Thank you so much for your encouragement and kinds words about my final assignment. I am both proud and pleased. I shall post it for everyone to read for ideas. All the best, Marlene! It has been great to work with you over these past few weeks.
Sincerely,
Therese Mair
Thank you for all the wonderful comments and words of advice. I will continue to expand on my lesson based on your suggestions.
Kim
Karen
I did receive your email.
Thanks, Pam
I've added my reflections on the two articles by C. Kapitzke and a Final reflection. I wonder if you are able to find them. I have you listed as "a friend", but don't know if you are able to view my posts, as there seems to have been some problems with this. I know you are super busy. If you find that you can't read the above to responses, please let me know. I hope you have had a great week with our Ray. He's wonderful, isn't he. We feel so lucky to have him here at UPEI.
All the best,
Therese
I am checking to make sure you are able to find my response to Week#11 question and reflection.
Thanks, Pam.
I am afraid I may be behind on my postings!
I have not been able to discuss anything really on ibrary, since I have not found anyone's discussion on the new literacies. However I have written a discussion for this and am posting it on my blog page. I look forward to a response.
Talk to you soon,
Mel C
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