Re-Think: George’s Story – My first foray into digital literature creation

Re-think: George’s Story (Curtis, 2022b) is a piece of digital literature that has been specifically created to encourage the reader to consider the potential impacts of posting videos of others

Final Reflections on Digital Literature

I spent a significant amount of time during ETL533 refining my understanding of what a piece of digital literature is but, as I mentioned in an earlier blog post (Curtis,

Digital Storytelling Topic Proposal – ReThink

I have been looking forward to this assignment even though my digital skills are not currently up the task of creating what is in my imagination. Topic: My overall topic

Digital Literature – A Reflection.

Before undertaking the task to review digital literature (DL), I had not actively engaged with it or sought it out but now realise that I have been reading and interacting

Digital Literature Review – Seven Digital Deadly Sins

Introduction Seven Digital Deadly Sins is an interactive documentary created through a collaboration between the National Film Board of Canada and the Guardian (full credits here). After interacting with the

Digital Literature Review – Ninette: Thin is Never Thin Enough

Introduction Ninette: Thin is never thin enough was created by the Interactive Media Foundation (2016) (full credit list) and starts with a group of girls that are growing into their

Digital Literature Review – Reading Eggs

Introduction Reading Eggs is a subscription-based platform accessible via app or browser to assist children with developing their reading skills. It offers a self-paced learning environment where children engage in

Evaluating Digital Literature

We have been defining and refining what good quality literature is for hundreds of years. This has been made easy because literature has largely remained constant in form and presentation

Defining Literature and Reading in a Digital Age.

The following thoughts are in response to reading N. Hayles (2003) article. Trying to understand digital literature through a traditional literature mindset is going to be unsuccessful. This is because

Digital Literature – a whole new world.

As I traverse through ETL533, I have been tasked with determining what digital literature is. There seems to be varied definitions for digital literature due to the fact that it

The End of ETL523 – Really Just the Beginning.

At the beginning of ETL523 my understanding of digital citizenship centred mostly around being safe and being respectful. As I progressed through my studies, I discovered that this was also

Digital Citizenship Action

Digital citizenship skills is often the answer given to the question, “what do we need to teach children to survive in an online world?” After completing a module for ETL523,

Safe and respectful is great, but we need more.

I had a quick scan of the NSW Dept, John Paul College and NZ Ed. internet usage policies and instructing students to be safe and respectful was a key message

Digital Learning Environments (DLEs) and Social Media

If schools are not actively engaging students in a DLE, where have they been for the last 5, possibly even 10 years? Given the ubiquity of technology and connectedness in

Reflection on Creating a Web Guide

Selecting a platform for creating the web guide and ensuring that it would meet the needs of my intended users was the initial challenge. Ultimately, Google Sites was selected as

To Curate or not to Curate

I know that staff at my school have a great many digital resources that they have found over the years for teaching a wide range of topics, I have many

The Digital Divide: An Un-Crossable Chasm?

Upon hearing the term, ‘digital divide’ I imagine most people, like myself (until recently) thinks of it in terms of people who have access and people who do not. Obviously

Literacy & Digital Fluency

How do I develop the knowledge and skills to address current and future literacy and digital fluency needs? In the first instance, I need to have a sound understanding of

Time to teach Digital Citizenship

Educational institutions take time to teach students how to develop healthy physical relationships, problem solve, recognise abuse and bullying in the playground and give them the skills they need to

DLE, PLN & PLE

So after a not so restful break I have started the 3rd semester of my MEd (TL) degree and to be honest it has been difficult to get the study

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