tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158138730514342043.post2557903717727414504..comments2024-03-19T03:18:05.059-04:00Comments on Collablogatorium: When Will the Visual Revolution Get to Our Classrooms?testecarlahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02265287790133905481noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158138730514342043.post-81814159988494551652011-02-26T19:32:33.487-05:002011-02-26T19:32:33.487-05:00Thanks, Sarah! We'll surely bump into each oth...Thanks, Sarah! We'll surely bump into each other on twitter!testecarlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02265287790133905481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158138730514342043.post-64493840351882116982011-02-26T19:25:41.243-05:002011-02-26T19:25:41.243-05:00super blog, super post. Am pleased to have discove...super blog, super post. Am pleased to have discovered you and hope to se you on Twiter, too.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18280350206250956814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158138730514342043.post-7252480419245843002008-12-24T09:13:00.000-05:002008-12-24T09:13:00.000-05:00Dear Bee, We could certainly add to your Wikieduca...Dear Bee, <BR/><BR/>We could certainly add to your Wikieducator page about <A HREF="http://www.wikieducator.org/ELT_Resources/visual_and_critical_literacy" REL="nofollow">Visual and Critical Literacy</A>. It looks great, and I'll certainly add as a reference to our <A HREF="http://images4education.pbwiki.com" REL="nofollow">Images4Education</A> session as a reference. Let me know how I could collaborate with you on it. The session, in fact, shows how interested we are in the topic and have been working hard to add more of the idea of these multiple literacies to class planning.testecarlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02265287790133905481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158138730514342043.post-38738602648299758372008-12-19T15:15:00.000-05:002008-12-19T15:15:00.000-05:00Hi Carla,Check out the Visual and Critical Literac...Hi Carla,<BR/>Check out the <A HREF="http://www.wikieducator.org/ELT_Resources/visual_and_critical_literacy" REL="nofollow">Visual and Critical Literacy page</A> I have started on Wikieducator. Maybe you'd like to contribute with some of your material so we can build more open resources for ELT.Beehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649394106690803075noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158138730514342043.post-56579603112617140322008-12-19T08:34:00.000-05:002008-12-19T08:34:00.000-05:00Very interesting, indeed, Peter. The way the Intel...Very interesting, indeed, Peter. The way the <A HREF="http://www.arcadia.edu/academic/default.aspx?id=13090" REL="nofollow">Intellectual Practice</A> is set is very forward thinking and the subject areas are really fundamental for students to acquire the skills they need to be successful professionals. What do you do there at Arcadia?testecarlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02265287790133905481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158138730514342043.post-73737545327551930332008-12-18T21:32:00.000-05:002008-12-18T21:32:00.000-05:00You may find it interesting that Arcadia Universit...You may find it interesting that Arcadia University recently made Visual Literacy an intellectual practice in its undergraduate curriculum. http://www.arcadia.edu/academic/default.aspx?id=13228 <BR/><BR/>Arcadia site: http://www.arcadia.edu/Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07654251199469842323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158138730514342043.post-63950044663600099412008-12-17T08:43:00.000-05:002008-12-17T08:43:00.000-05:00I know what you mean, Nik. And I know conditions f...I know what you mean, Nik. And I know conditions for millions of people are far from ideal, but for the ones really wanting to give it a go, you can't imagine how creative they can get. I've seen wonderful collaborative projects among countries that needed no more than a camera to take photos of students and the project. I've seen tons of schools in poor countries connecting through <A HREF="http://iearn.org" REL="nofollow">iEarn</A>.<BR/><BR/>We are certainly in the privileged category and can't take for granted others that don't have even the minimum resources to get started. However, I feel that the willingness to make a move is much more powerful than the lack of resources.<BR/><BR/>For example, a very nice project for teens we had in our school with a school in Argentina showed exactly that. Claudia Bellusci in Argentina didn't have computer access for her students to communicate with ours while they produced a scrapbook about Brazil. She asked permission from students' parents and she would take the kids to a LAN house across the street to let them communicate via the project blog.<BR/><A HREF="http://brazilargentina.blogspot.com" REL="nofollow">Brazil Argentina Scrapbook Project</A><BR/><BR/>I'd say we have many reasons for not changing, but we have even more start the microrevolution. The main reason being our learners and our own professional satisfaction and enrichment!<BR/><BR/>How about if we two wrote a post about ideas to work with technology in a place with few resources? We could ask our networks to contribute with ideas.testecarlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02265287790133905481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7158138730514342043.post-77693333530125528632008-12-17T03:38:00.000-05:002008-12-17T03:38:00.000-05:00Hi CarlaI really enjoyed reading this and totally ...Hi Carla<BR/><BR/>I really enjoyed reading this and totally agree. I think this is a marvelous time to be involved in education and the potential has never been greater. Thanks for mentioning my blog posting on the potential of video too.<BR/><BR/>One of the sad reminders that came to me from doing the presentation here in Morocco was that, still too few teachers are provided with the necessary technical support and infrastructure they need to exploit these resources. Basically, some of the teachers who came along to the presentation said that they didn't even have electricity in their classrooms. Others said that since the internet had become increasingly a part of other subjects such as science and the humanities, that the English teachers had been pushed out of the classrooms that did have computer / internet access!<BR/><BR/>Seems there's still a lot of work to be done in bringing about cultural change within educational establishments so that Englsh teachers are given the necessary support and recognition they need to be able to make these things happen.<BR/><BR/>Best<BR/><BR/>NikNik Peacheyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13397596906147004693noreply@blogger.com