In the field of ESL teaching, the four skills (Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing) are what are considered to be key components in achieving fluency in a language. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have drafted a…
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The Journey to Literacy: Taking A Virtual Voyage
by Anne Engert • • 0 Comments
Educators from pre-school to university are concerned these days with computer literacy. And no wonder, since computers have become an unavoidable feature of modern life, both in the business world and on the personal level. Computer literacy today is as…
To Blog or Not to Blog, That is the Question
by Mike • • 1 Comment
The title may sound corny, but the topic (Using Blogs in the Composition Classroom) is worth reading about. What are blogs and how can they be utilized in the composition classroom? This is the question I will explore in my…
W6, Seiter:Technology for Companies or for Education
by Jeong Kinser • • 0 Comments
I thought that Seiter hit the nail on the head regarding the field of cyber education. She said, “There are powerful economic interests behind the promotion of hardware and software in educational institutions at all levels”. As she said, the…
Digital “Playground”: teeter totters are fun but sand can get in your eyes . . .
by kmontero • • 2 Comments
The New Digital Media is a powerful and seemingly unstoppable force. It has the ability to influence large groups of people. Many of these influences are positive, many are negative. For instance, I am sure we all heard about the…
Scouting Report: Electronic Portfolio, a Call to Action Realized
by rhetdezigner • • 0 Comments
One of the “hot topics” at the Computers and Writing Conference at UC Davis that I attended this past June surrounded the idea of “electronic portfolios.” The concept made total sense to me. This definitely will be the future status of…
Jeong’s Scouting Report: TED
by Jeong Kinser • • 0 Comments
I want to introduce TED community to teachers of composition or literature. Utilizing TEDTalks would be highly constructive in those classes. The rapid development of the new media has been difficult to equate the process of its actual practice into…
The Great Technology Divide between Baby Boomers and Children of the Great Depression
by Alex Janney • • 0 Comments
While Seiter brings up many interesting points about how technology exacerbates the divides between social classes and groups amongst young people, I think she fails to examine another group that is impacted by this-baby boomers and those born during the…
“Public is the New Private”–If Not Now, Soon
by Anne Engert • • 0 Comments
The “Good Play Project’s” commentary cites the four characteristics (mentioned in boyd’s article on social networking) of NDM that make privacy issues so challenging: persistence, searchability, replicability, and invisible audience. The argument put forth is that online, especially among younger…
Finding an Identity “the Hard Way”
by Alex Janney • • 0 Comments
In high-school, I never had internet. There was no Facebook, no MySpace, no Second Life for me. I had to create my identity “the hard way” (this is probably what I’ll tell my kids someday instead of “I had to…