New E-Learning article

REBECCA W. BLACK (2007) Fanfiction Writing and the Construction of Space, E-Learning, 4(4), pp. 384-397

Trackulous

Check out Bill Tomlinson's new site. It was originally created to keep track of consumption of resources to promote environmental awareness; however, people are now using it to track all sorts of things.

Toronto JIC

Wiki

Toronto Workshop

Workshop Activities
21st Century Skills Grade Yourself
21st Century Skills on the Web

TeacherTube

Here's a site with teacher-made, education-related videos.

New Literacies Sampler Online

Peter Lang, progressive publisher extraordinaire, has allowed us to make the New Literacies Sampler, edited by Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel, freely available here.

Contents:

Chapter 1: Sampling “the New” in New Literacies

Colin Lankshear & Michele Knobel

Chapter 2: “You Won’t Be Needing Your Laptops Today”: Wired Bodies in the Wireless Classroom

Kevin M. Leander

Chapter 3: Popular Websites in Adolescents’ Out-of-School Lives: Critical Lessons on Literacy

Jennifer C. Stone

Chapter 4: Agency and Authority in Role-Playing “Texts”

Jessica Hammer

Chapter 5: Pleasure, Learning, Video Games, and Life: The Projective Stance

James Paul Gee

Chapter 6: Digital Design: English Language Learners and Reader Reviews in Online Fiction

Rebecca W. Black

Chapter 7: Blurring and Breaking through the Boundaries of Narrative, Literacy, andIdentity in Adolescent Fan Fiction

Angela Thomas

Chapter 8: Looking from the Inside Out: Academic Blogging as New Literacy

Julia Davies and Guy Merchant

Chapter 9: Online Memes, Affinities, and Cultural Production

Michele Knobel & Colin Lankshear

Chapter 10: New Literacies

Cynthia Lewis

Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us

Alice shared this very nicely-done video that both explains and demonstrates the implications of Web 2.0 for text, form, content, identity, etc.

Par-tippy-tip

Look what Angela found for me!


Personally, I'm partial to the pink-snouted stare of disapproval from the Muppet version, but the partippy-tip is rather catchy!

NMC Online Conference

NMC Online Conference on the Convergence of Web Culture and VideoMarch 21-22, 2007 -- via the Internet
Proposals for presentations for the NMC Online Conference on the Convergence of Web Culture and Video, a special 2-day, live online event to be held entirely via the Internet, are being solicited through February 23, 2007.
Keynoters: Henry Jenkins, Angela Thomas and Cynthia Calongne will be present for this 2-day examination of the Convergence of Web Culture and Video.
Go here for more information.