English 808: Technology & Literacy – Course Units

Dr. Gian Pagnucci

Tech World

• Logging On
• Time Travel–Part 1
  • TechTool: Film Technology
• Blog Literacy
  • Wikipedia Definition: “blog”
  • Blogger.com
  • Research Blogging
  • TechTool: Blogs
• • Task: First Blog Entry
  • Task: Additional Blog Entries
  • Dr. Pagnucci’s Blog
  • IUP Blogs
    • IUP Blog Login
• Creating a Web Presence
  • TechTool: Wix
  • Task: Teacher Web Page
  • Sample Wix Teacher Page
  • Sample Google Sites Home Page
• Going Tech Free
  • Blog Entry: Going Tech Free
  • Podcast: In a Digital Chapter, Paper Notebooks Are As Relevant As Ever by Eric Weiner

Print Literacy

• Task: Literacy Narrative
• Podcast: Don’t Write Paper Off Just Yet by Eric Weiner
• Blog Entry: What is literacy?
• Literacy Theories (What is literacy?)
  • Task: Group Literacy Definition
    • “Literacy” Definition

Tech Literacy

• 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
• Task: Technology Narrative
• Technology Theories

Online Social Literacy

• Task: Learner Narrative
• Facebook Literacy
  • TechTool: FaceBook
    • “Facebooking Your Way Out of Tenure” by David D. Perlmutter
• Project ICast
  • 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)
• 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: 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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