tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52941022024-03-28T10:19:51.074-06:00Everyday LiteraciesExplores and comments on everyday practices of producing and consuming texts of whatever kind in meatspace and cyberspace.Colin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.comBlogger534125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-28573572115956377782023-04-03T09:19:00.003-06:002023-04-03T09:21:43.656-06:00New article publishedMichele and I were still working on papers and book ideas when she died. One of our projects was with a team of three Masters students from a cohort we worked with in 2018 and 2019 on the theme of learning to become teacher researchers within a hybrid course in their M.Ed. specialism (Literacy Education). The students and I continued working on the article last year, and it has just been Colin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-67024652652830053592020-03-17T13:06:00.000-06:002020-03-17T13:06:36.379-06:00Our recent paper on memes
At the end of the 90s we began asking ourselves what might count as 'new' literacies. What would it mean to think of literacy practices that could, in a significant sense, be regarded as 'new'? We took a fairly simple approach to this question and identified some examples of what we considered to be 'new' literacy practices--in the sense of: well, if anything can be thought of as a 'new' Colin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-78265083260230261572020-03-17T10:28:00.002-06:002020-03-17T10:28:33.590-06:00Call for papers for Special Issue of JournalOur wonderful Spanish colleagues Daniel Cassany and Cristina Aliagas are calling for papers for a special issue -- to be published in English and Spanish (translation provided) -- of the journal OCNOS on the theme of Digital literacy practices: Online read, write and chat about literature. OCNOS is indexed in Quartile 1 in Scopus and is indexed to the Web of Science.
The full call for papers canColin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-58733163800706911752019-12-26T16:08:00.001-06:002019-12-26T16:08:21.212-06:00Myers Education PressThis is just a shout out for Chris Myers' independent publishing company Myers Education Press
We have worked with Chris for more than 20 years now, as authors, editors and series editors, and are thrilled to see his new venture well under way.
You'll find a list of the areas the press is interested in publishing books in, and information about the company's publishing ethos and the kinds of Colin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-82644476405471877002019-12-26T15:25:00.001-06:002019-12-26T15:25:18.606-06:00Long time between postsWe certainly lost our way with blogging these past 18 months or so. That reflects having lost our way with a lot of the stuff that one blogs about,
For example, we used to post when new books were published in our New Literacies series. And the long time between posts reflects, to some extent, a long time between books.
A couple of things happened. One is that Peter Lang Publishing went throughColin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-18959112206719983282018-05-03T23:36:00.000-05:002018-05-05T12:20:25.914-05:00Border crossersIf your mother was anything like mine when it came to trying to shape up good choices in her children, she likely informed you numerous times that while "you can't choose your family, you can choose your friends." As the years rolled by I became increasingly absorbed in the thought that neither can you choose your country of birth. That's every bit as much a lottery -- for the same reasons, I Colin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com71tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-25089415078666771692018-05-03T21:55:00.002-05:002018-05-03T21:55:52.576-05:00Analogue cooking: with apologies to vegetariansDuring the one and only sabbatical I hung around the university long enough to qualify for I saw an unfinished prototype of a solar oven. It had been part of a suite of appropriate technology ideas a Belgian engineer introduced in the area of the Nicaraguan countryside where I was living and studying everyday life. Jan Haemhouts had fled Haiti, where he had been working with poor rural communitesColin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-17624247022053548402018-02-08T22:26:00.000-06:002018-02-08T23:13:16.068-06:00Remembering John Perry BarlowLong before the time when I first read him speaking good sense about what was then becoming known as cyberspace (in the early 90s), I first heard John Perry Barlow 'speak' through his lyrics for songs written in collaboration with Bob Weir. Cassidy remains one of my all time favourite songs. While Weir's melody is hauntingly beautiful, it is the way the lyric renders the lives of peopleColin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-7780927697205955822018-01-22T11:01:00.004-06:002018-01-22T11:01:58.353-06:00New book in our series--congrats again, Matt Farber!Matt Farber (of Gamify Your Classroom fame) has just published another lovely book in our New Literacies & Digital Epistemologies series with Peter Lang. Game-Based Learning in Action: How an Expert Affinity Group Teaches with Games (foreword by James Paul Gee) focusses on concrete ways to develop games-based learning in classrooms. From the back cover:
"How
are expert educators using Colin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-64481364827855187082017-06-26T12:57:00.004-05:002017-06-26T12:57:55.273-05:00WritingRight now I'm smiling my way through a delightfully irreverent and waspish account of fear and loathing in Silicon Valley's startup culture. Antonio Garcia Martinez's Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley has the kind of bite that can make long haul international plane flights seem like a rewarding experience.
Among many unexpected bonuses flying in from left Colin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-40223968084752101912017-06-22T22:34:00.000-05:002017-06-23T13:04:24.464-05:00Vale Brian StreetAlong with many others in the literacy research and scholarship world, we are today mourning the untimely death of Brian Street. Brian was a pioneer in the English speaking world of a sociocultural approach to understanding literacy. In many ways he said it all in the opening sentence of his 1984 book, when he wrote that 'Literacy' is best understood as a shorthand for the social practices and Colin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-84417998488713026072017-05-06T13:28:00.000-05:002017-05-06T13:28:32.598-05:00A charming and magical evening with Roger McGuinnIt's funny how things go around. When Sam was one month old we were at Auckland airport seeing my mother off on a flight. This guy, with a distinctively US accent just asks out of nowhere "How old's the baby?". I tell him Sam's a month old and ask where he's from. He says "From Los Angeles, but we're flying to Sydney". I say -- because I had already bought a front row seat ticket -- "Oh what a Colin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-25611130651241224752017-04-29T12:26:00.002-05:002017-04-29T12:36:28.212-05:00Spanish language edition of of New Literacies and Teacher Learning
La edición en español de New Literacies and Teacher Learning: Professional Development and the Digital Turn acaba de ser publicada en México por Ediciones SM en México.
El contenido del libro es el siguiente:
Para ver el contenido más claramente, haga clic en las imágenes.
Colin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com143tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-43177531803387405432017-04-25T11:22:00.001-05:002017-04-25T11:23:48.210-05:00We have a new edited collection out!We're both very happy to announce that Researching New Literacies: Design, Theory and Data in Sociocultural Investigation is now out. This is a collection that addresses a number of themes that we feel rather strongly about; including the importance of demystifying the qualitative research process, recognizing the messiness of conducting research--especially in relation to new literacies, and theColin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-22887215033954110382017-03-18T11:49:00.000-06:002017-03-18T11:49:52.162-06:00A new book in our "New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies" series!
Congratulations to Belinha de Abreu (with Vitor Tome) on the publication of her book, Mobile Learning Through Digital Literacy! This volume insightfully tackles head-on what has become tricky terrain in many schools and classrooms around the world: what to do with the mobile communication and information systems that students bring with them to school.
From the back cover:
Mobile Colin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-24221882940526431102016-09-21T14:41:00.000-05:002016-09-21T14:41:13.155-05:00Most recent new book in the series: Learning to Teach in the Digital AgeThe most recently published book in our New Literacies series is Sean Justice's Learning to Teach in the Digital Age
Subtitled 'New Materialities and Maker Paradigms in Schools', the book recounts a qualitative case study of K-12 teachers beginning to connect with pedagogies of digital making and learning over the course of a school year. It explores how these teachers interacted with and Colin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-83271424779069507552016-09-21T14:29:00.002-05:002016-09-21T14:29:25.789-05:00Recent Book in our series: Gamify Your Classroom
More recently, Lang published Mattew Farber's Gamify Your Classroom which provides a 'field guide' to implementing games-based learning (and 'gamification' techniques) in classroom settings. It combines a survey of 'best practices' derived from interviews with leading scholars and practitioners in the area of gaming and games-baed learning and the author's own practical lesson plans, Colin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-37534245878145202412016-09-21T14:17:00.003-05:002016-09-21T14:17:42.896-05:00Recent book in our series: New Creativity ParadigmsSince we last updated this blog with information about books recently published in our New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies series, three books have been published in addition to the one mentioned in the previous post.
The first of these is Kylie Peppler's New Creativity Paradigms: Arts Learning in the Digital Age, commissioned by the Wallace Foundation, and focusing on research that Colin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-76006452226951738972016-09-21T13:43:00.000-05:002016-09-21T15:25:46.183-05:00The Delivery ManIt's been a long time since we posted here and there are all kinds of reasons for this. I'll get to one of them in a subsequent post. But, for now, part of the reason has been the usual pressure on time, and part of it -- in my own case -- has been a feeling of getting 'past my use by date': a feeling of having nothing much fresh to say that might repay people's time in dropping in to read Colin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-86956500932269556832015-12-08T16:51:00.000-06:002015-12-08T16:54:37.044-06:00The pilgrimage: to Gram, at lastI'll never have a bucket list, but there is one thing I have been meaning to do for a very long time. Too long. It was long overdue, but now it is done -- at least, for the first time. There'll be others.
The opportunity was provided by last week's LRA conference in Carlsbad, which gave me a chance to see some special colleagues I've not seen for too long. That was the original motive for going Colin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-88239881690768251072015-09-08T08:28:00.002-05:002015-09-08T08:28:55.952-05:00Call for book proposals
Those of you in the northern hemisphere who have enjoyed a restful and restorative summer and who are back into work with gusto, and those of you in the southern hemisphere who are heading into a lessening of winter and starting to feel the blood quicken in your veins, might want to think about working on a book proposal to submit for consideration for publication in our series with Peter Colin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-77785098868560563892015-08-31T09:14:00.001-05:002016-09-21T13:51:58.688-05:00New book in our series: Agustin Berti's "From Digital to Analog"!Agustin Berti's, From Digital to Analog: Agrippa and Other Hybrids in the Beginning of Digital Culture is a marvellous book! In his exploration of William Gibson's digi-analogue Agrippa, Berti engages with the early history of the huge turn towards the digital that began in the 1990s and raises all sorts of interesting points about the materiality of digital texts.
From the back cover:
"From Colin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-83806114224663329632015-08-06T10:34:00.004-05:002015-08-06T10:34:47.483-05:00Rewriting the Mark 4 Zephyr
When my father finally realised he would never again be hooking his prized 1971 Mark 4 Zephyr car to the family caravan he started staring down the reality that it was time to do something about the car.
He wanted me to have it. But that had to be stared down too. Much and all as I would love to have had the car, the brute fact was that the Zephyr was a right hand drive vehicle domiciled in Colin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-52691101715487866032015-06-15T18:01:00.000-05:002015-06-15T18:03:37.106-05:00The Futuuri Summer Seminar on Future Language EducationIt's been a long time between posts, indicative of how busy we have been this year just keeping heads above water.
Late last year we received very kind invitations to provide keynote presentations and give a workshop at the "Futuuri" Seminar on Future Language Education in Jyvaskyla, Finland. The event was held on 3-5 June 2015, in the heart of the beautiful Finnish Lake District. At this time Colin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5294102.post-49521828187247590072015-02-19T14:38:00.002-06:002015-02-19T15:09:38.552-06:00Another new book in our series, this one by Trevor Owens: "Designing Online Communities"Trevor Owen's new book, Designing Online Communities: How Designers, Developers, Community Managers, and Software Structure Discourse and Knowledge Production on the Web, is now out and a must-read for anyone even remotely interested in working with or researching online communities.
From the back cover:
Discussion on the Web is mediated through layers of software and protocols. As scholars Colin and/or Michelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07672356531075609779noreply@blogger.com4