English 808: Technology & Literacy – Course Units

Dr. Gian Pagnucci

Tech World

• Logging On
• Time Travel–Part 1
  • TechTool: Film Technology
• Task: Teacher Web Page
  • Basic Web Page Concepts
  • TechTool: Wix
  • Faculty Wix Page Template (or Search for Academic)
    
  • Dr. Pagnucci’s Wix Page
    
  • Alternate Version of Dr. Pagnucci’s Wix Page
  • Dr. Pagnucci’s Google Sites Page
• Blog Literacy
  • Blogging Workshop
  • Research Bloging
• Blogger.com
  • Wikipedia Definition: “blog”
  • TechTool: Blogs
  • Task: First Blog Entry
  • Task: Additional Blog Entries
  • IUP Blogs
    • IUP Blog Login
  • Dr. Pagnucci’s Blog

Print Literacy

• Task: Your Literacy Narrative
  • Story: Click, Clack, Moo by Doreen Cronin
  • Task: Early Literacy Memories
  • Blog Entry: Freire
  • Story: The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
  • Wikipedia Entry: The Cat in the Hat
    
  • Sample: Gian’s Early Literacy Story
  • Task: School Literacy Narratives
  • Story: Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
  • Task: Momentous Literacy Narratives
  • Story: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
• Podcast: Don’t Write Paper Off Just Yet by Eric Weiner (National Public Radio [NPR]; 7:03 minutes)
  
• Literacy Theories
  • Task: Group “Literacy” Definition
  • Guide: Literacy Theories
    
  • Task: “Literacy” Definition
  • Blog Entry: What is “literacy”?

Tech Literacy I

• Task: Going Tech Free
  • Blog Entry: Going Tech Free
  • Podcast: In a Digital Chapter, Paper Notebooks Are As Relevant As Ever by Eric Weiner (National Public Radio [NPR]; 5:28 minutes)
    • Passion Planner Video by Angelia Trinidad (Mentioned in NPR Podcast)
      
    • Passion Planner Website (in case you need one!)
    • Passion Planner Kickstarter Campaign

Tech Literacy II

• Task: Your Technology Narrative
• Technology Theories
  • Guide: Technology Theories
• Task: Going Tech Free
  • Blog Entry: Going Tech Free
  • Podcast: In a Digital Chapter, Paper Notebooks Are As Relevant As Ever by Eric Weiner (National Public Radio [NPR]; 5:28 minutes)
    • Passion Planner (Mentioned in NPR Podcast)
    • Passion Planner Kickstarter Campaign
• The WikiBib Project
  • TechTool: Wikis
  • Annotated Wiki Bibliographies
  • TechTool: Wikis
    • Technology and Literacy Bibliography by Author
    • Technology and Literacy Bibliography by Topic
    • Sample Annotation
    • Additional Bibliographies on Technology
  • Additional Bibliographies on Technology

Online Social Literacy

• Task: Your Learner Narrative
• Project IUP Cast
  • TechTool: Podcasting
  • TechTool: Audacity
  • TechTool: LAME (MP3 encoder) Download–needed to export Audacity files as MP3 files
  • Internet Archive (free music)
  • Sound Cloud (online audio storage)
• Facebook Literacy
  • TechTool: FaceBook
    • “Facebooking Your Way Out of Tenure” by David D. Perlmutter
• SecondLife Communities
  • TechTool: Second Life
  • Video: Cyber One: Law in the Court of Public Opinion
  • Blog Entry: Second Life
    
  • IUP Second Life
  • Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education (vwbpe.org)

Tech Pedagogy

• Task: Your Teacher Narrative
• Tech Pedagogy (Teaching Literacy with Technology)
  • TechTool: WebQuests
  • TechTool: Course Hero
  • TechTool: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Search
• TechTool: Time Machines (Time Travel — Part II)

Tech Life

• New Written Forms
  • TechTool: Twitter
  • TechTool: TweetChat
    • Use candt for hash designation related to the doctoral program
    • Use candt808 for hash designation related to course
• Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
  • Udacity
  • Coursera
  • edX

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