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Interactive Communication By: Chris Thompson

Examples: Vista, Blogster, Google, Twitter

Conflict: Education places more emphasis with online communication. This could cause more disconnection between people. Also, students may be more likely to not attend class with online resources.

Questions: Does Instant Messanger create more convenience for information or more of a distraction.

Definition: A unique opportunity to be able to communicate through an online venue that poses a variety of topics for social or educational reasons.

Design

Working definition: Design is the active process of meaning making. Design provides us with a way to think about literacies as multifaceted and dynamic through their potential for transformation.

There are three types of design: Available designs Designing The Redesigned

Examples: MySpace, Facebook, and Blogging and Fan Fiction sites.

Design allows for manipulation. Design not only includes linguistic manipulation, but also incorporates other elements, including visual, audio, gestural, spatial, and multimodal meaning.

Adolescents not only design their identities, but also design the space and appearance of where and how their identities are displayed.

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Conflicts/Complications: Where does this fit into school setting as far as identity with design are concerned?

Design and identity are only what you make it; adolescents have the ability to delete their online spaces, designs, and identities.

Design leads to manipulation leads to identity leads to intertextuality leads and hybridity leads to the creation of new relationships and new practices and conventions.

Multiliteracies Definition: the concept of Multiliteracies is the idea that there are different kinds of literacies and that literacy changes based on context, technology, generation, usage, method of learning, language, culture, and practice. Under this definition, literacy has different modes of representation that are much broader than language and differ according to culture and context and it presents literacy as a dynamic element that is constantly being remade by users to achieve their specific purpose. These changes, however, are not limited to literacy, but it also changes the users. Additionally, each facet of literacy has specific cognitive, cultural, and social effects as it incorporates visual, audio, gestural, spatial, and multimodal meanings.

Examples: Web 2.0, the use of literacy compared to academic writing, typing, texting, e-mail, the different uses of literacy among the Vai

Questions: What qualifies something as a literacy? What makes one literacy different from another?

Conflicts/Doubts: Is it really literacy itself that is changing or just how it is used?