tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17515804599561133372024-03-04T22:18:57.212-08:00literacies logLRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-52752815861852981372009-02-24T06:33:00.000-08:002009-02-24T06:41:26.030-08:00WordleThings you can do with digital literacies:<br /><br />Create instant art from your web page.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/578916/Lancaster_Literacy_Research_Centre_website_home_page" title="Wordle: Lancaster Literacy Research Centre website home page"><img src="http://www.wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/578916/Lancaster_Literacy_Research_Centre_website_home_page" alt="Wordle: Lancaster Literacy Research Centre website home page" style="padding:4px;border:1px solid #ddd"></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.wordle.net">www.wordle.net</a><br /><br />KarinLRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-20567843405174185602008-10-31T07:35:00.000-07:002008-10-31T07:40:47.309-07:00DB writes: <strong>BOOK OF THE MONTH</strong><br /><br /><strong>Passion and politics: Academics reflect on writing for publication</strong> <em>by E. Carnell, J MacDonald, Bet McCullum and M. Scott. London: Institution of Education, 2008.</em><br />This fascinating book, which has just been published contains interviews with 18 academics at the London Institute of Education about their writing practices. What they say is strongly framed by the editors in terms of themes like: becoming a writer, managing time, imagining the reader and the two themes of the title, their passion for writing and the politics of writing. Gunther Kress and Jan Blommaert are two of the academics who provide glimpses into their lives. The editors, who unfortunately reveal nothing about themselves, provide lots of ideas on how to carry out such interviews and for further projects.<br /><iframe src="http://rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk/e/cm?t=literacyresea-21&o=2&p=8&l=as1&asins=0854738029&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr" style="width:120px;height:240px;" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0"></iframe>LRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-39648699582806391632008-09-18T03:27:00.000-07:002008-09-18T03:32:32.091-07:00Geisel library<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAx53_JCnoqA7J_zA3yOGzBvZrpU437T-qFGhSspatrWVaGnD1hAoMJ2JoxqZGspEWHnNX2D9vM3X4cy9bjGa8f4d8T9Pacik-QirxKEWBj2N_ZjCe-gJCAtoP1UGANhzFxs4hXkzSxdc/s1600-h/Geisel3.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAx53_JCnoqA7J_zA3yOGzBvZrpU437T-qFGhSspatrWVaGnD1hAoMJ2JoxqZGspEWHnNX2D9vM3X4cy9bjGa8f4d8T9Pacik-QirxKEWBj2N_ZjCe-gJCAtoP1UGANhzFxs4hXkzSxdc/s320/Geisel3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247307242516634050" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidZmZIy1wS_zEwKdls61xNJVZibF9CIGerfq1ZmWhMCnkQDEDhRv95-dx1sQ53xTh_U6cfgvajmUvhw6isAhpOPknwYkvoVkcTMNFbMYxyrnOu3ZqJSm917Q3ipXDZRpSU_ynAn-xbDfk/s1600-h/Geisel2.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidZmZIy1wS_zEwKdls61xNJVZibF9CIGerfq1ZmWhMCnkQDEDhRv95-dx1sQ53xTh_U6cfgvajmUvhw6isAhpOPknwYkvoVkcTMNFbMYxyrnOu3ZqJSm917Q3ipXDZRpSU_ynAn-xbDfk/s200/Geisel2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247307177738064690" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt4VxZfsB_C9GTvp78jZ4snccJvGgy7CqOEm3Myuz6i4UgzKW5qGlAR0tDFDu939MxumDaMVTPsrbS2Ib-VMg3NE6ZGB-Fb3Un4dUjZoNdNVQX1BFuyluWXoLTIRGrdIiWJ8YPfvCryFk/s1600-h/Geisel1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt4VxZfsB_C9GTvp78jZ4snccJvGgy7CqOEm3Myuz6i4UgzKW5qGlAR0tDFDu939MxumDaMVTPsrbS2Ib-VMg3NE6ZGB-Fb3Un4dUjZoNdNVQX1BFuyluWXoLTIRGrdIiWJ8YPfvCryFk/s400/Geisel1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247307099855623346" /></a><br />Images from the wonderful <a href="http://www.ucsd.edu/portal/site/Libraries/menuitem.346352c02aac0c82b9ba4310d34b01ca/?vgnextoid=039692a0691d3110VgnVCM10000045b410acRCRD">Geisel library </a>at the University of California, San Diego, visited for the <a href="http://iscar2008.com/home_English.html">ISCAR conference (Intl Society for Cultural and Activity Research)</a>.LRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-16019371998558423212008-07-17T01:17:00.000-07:002008-12-10T09:09:51.347-08:00more on literacies and place<div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrC3wYdptr0okGUZLqsgJH6QmVjPnUWWtm0p8W9qvt__pNM6BhfMZn1IBVzCmOT0e1uWH9FIW0Xwmnzfecbtg2Swle3DB3zKvt7hsUSaKXikmBs3lEpe8O5gaEwNc6xLm8mOeVk_7wHM8/s1600-h/ridley+grove+path.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223896550910476802" style="CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrC3wYdptr0okGUZLqsgJH6QmVjPnUWWtm0p8W9qvt__pNM6BhfMZn1IBVzCmOT0e1uWH9FIW0Xwmnzfecbtg2Swle3DB3zKvt7hsUSaKXikmBs3lEpe8O5gaEwNc6xLm8mOeVk_7wHM8/s400/ridley+grove+path.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.unisanet.unisa.edu.au/staff/Homepage.asp?Name=barbara.comber">Barbara Comber </a>played with the phrase 'know your place' when she began the special focus day on literacy and social class at the UK Literacy Association conference last Thursday. She argues for a hopeful take on critical literacies with place pedagogies, suggesting that the notion of 'knowing one's place' can be an inclusive educational resource, getting away from the implication of 'accepting' one's (lowly) position.<br /></div><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="http://www.unisa.edu.au/architecture/visitors/Projects/ridleygrove.asp">This urban renewal project </a>brought together primary and preschool children with architecture trainees to transform their setting. It was so clear how the project, being so real, engaged the children in authentic processes of planning, consultation, design and so on, in which their literacy skills flourished. Above is a photo of Ridley Grove school grounds early in the project. </div><br /><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeQrfkkRRwHD6KJ_RL0hW3zgHGKT2KVMysQiefTFjtiW9KfodjG53Wjf2QKHQb2rKMP6XN27rRz18u-AvZyXBM7GIYIA9lddHLLGn8F7ohCzcaDZoJBXdI4gMwHrSDe8Zf0nU2nRu-SVU/s1600-h/ridley+grove+1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223897170830200850" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeQrfkkRRwHD6KJ_RL0hW3zgHGKT2KVMysQiefTFjtiW9KfodjG53Wjf2QKHQb2rKMP6XN27rRz18u-AvZyXBM7GIYIA9lddHLLGn8F7ohCzcaDZoJBXdI4gMwHrSDe8Zf0nU2nRu-SVU/s320/ridley+grove+1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisNe5pFI5EHBJE0RJw_0upUNEQM_XPsqGBAg4jyPrQEXz3ilPPrcAZ8WVSqgCQlCdjeqe9slP3bcLBaCH_aJmHAu-tEjmhVVOhM907RmrS8TBHKT7zs978mGbbQ3poYsyYN9P-s7COyfQ/s1600-h/ridley+grove+1.jpg"></a><br /><br /></div><br /><div>I'm currently reading 'A mobile century? changes in everyday mobility in Britain in the twentieth century' by Colin Pooley, Jean Turnbull and Mags Adams. It turns out that the question mark is fundamental to their argument. Although the opportunities for long distance travel are far greater now than they were a century ago most people only do this once or twice a year and many never have - or take - the opportunity. '...for many, everyday mobility consists mainly of local travel connected to essential everyday tasks and ... this aspect of mobility has changed little over time.' (p. 1) The book includes some fascinating interviews with older people who reflect on their changing travel patterns over their lifespan; many move around more in their 60s than every before. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>I take from this a strengthening of Barbara Comber's argument; that relating literacy pedagogies to the locality can be fruitful and empowering in many ways. Here is another gorgeous image from her <a href="http://www.unisa.edu.au/hawkeinstitute/cslplc/research/default.asp">Centre for Studies in Literacy, Policy and Learning Cultures</a></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7bYC1cogc6iEkP6W4Sx1ZQFyrWUkZId4q6LnHCNT1b8nmBLpvpZrsqOzf-_tnRjoe6bQWJRlzxePktFQYtYAZTGBnelPd3gvVqPeHxPxFl6Nwx1gJS2WyYe3uvJ7MAqFjUhE84WEfZQY/s1600-h/SpecialForever2.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223901259054318034" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7bYC1cogc6iEkP6W4Sx1ZQFyrWUkZId4q6LnHCNT1b8nmBLpvpZrsqOzf-_tnRjoe6bQWJRlzxePktFQYtYAZTGBnelPd3gvVqPeHxPxFl6Nwx1gJS2WyYe3uvJ7MAqFjUhE84WEfZQY/s400/SpecialForever2.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div></div></div>LRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-76362539676727104922008-07-14T12:30:00.001-07:002008-12-10T09:09:51.556-08:00UK Literacy Association conference<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj85FMzTyZY5YeRSkPMXMOEU5rLb8V8eqDvjLOF3P8W0vTta5ffH3gX5Tj4Yn3Yu8-6lhDJCh3LXfGHNPNMChQdkT6s95d4rqI9MaNqGNX_3ce0ULgg3_JTwad91VQ6tlIh01Enirtbb4I/s1600-h/Jupiter+Williams.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222958072417399506" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj85FMzTyZY5YeRSkPMXMOEU5rLb8V8eqDvjLOF3P8W0vTta5ffH3gX5Tj4Yn3Yu8-6lhDJCh3LXfGHNPNMChQdkT6s95d4rqI9MaNqGNX_3ce0ULgg3_JTwad91VQ6tlIh01Enirtbb4I/s400/Jupiter+Williams.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I've just returned from the <a href="http://www.ukla.org/site/conferences/event/international_conference_2008/">UKLA conference </a>at Liverpool Hope University. One theme that came across very vividly to me was the experience of place in people's formative experiences of literacy. David Almond, the author of Skellig, was convinced - and really very convincing! - that his lifelong love of literature and determination to write that lasted over several decades before he attained any success - began with his first encounter with his uncle's small printworks. OK sounds reasonable - but he was 9 months old at the time! (I also loved the way he talked about using word processor software - how he occasionally turns the view down very small so that just the shapes of the paragraphs are visible, not the words themselves). In <a href="http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-almond-david.asp">this interview </a>he explains how he uses a sense of place in his writing. Steve Martin, a historian who works with children and recently published his first children's novel (Jupiter Martin) explains how he uses visits to local archives and walks around their locality to stimulate children's imaginations and writing work through revealing some occluded aspects of history including the presence of black people in British cities even centuries ago. </div><div><em>Julia</em></div>LRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-45565765743117367442008-06-30T06:09:00.001-07:002008-06-30T06:22:38.100-07:00writing, technology and teens<em>JG writes:</em><br />I'm reading a fascinating report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project & the National Commission on Writing: <a href="http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Writing_Report_FINAL3.pdf">'Writing, Technology and Teens'</a>. Its two sentence summary is: 'Teens write a lot, but they do not think of their emails, instant and text messaging as writing. This disconnect matters because teens believe good writing is an essential skill for success and that more writing instruction at school would help them.'<br /><br />Small wonder really that US teenagers are thinking in this way, given the narrow view of new literacies so prevalent in much mass media. Although having written that sentence I wonder if I'm being fair? It's now 5 years since the story reproduced in so many places about the Scottish girl handing in an essay written entirely in text messaging abbreviations (which I think I remember was exposed as a myth). So perhaps it's not that simple...the report should be interesting, I'll read on.<br /><br />Thanks to <a href="http://myvedana.blogspot.com/">Guy Merchant's blog </a>for alerting me to the report. It's good to see that the Pew Project is continuing to produce such fascinating stuff.LRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-12117509353121845922008-05-22T05:53:00.000-07:002008-05-22T06:07:19.989-07:00RaPALSeveral members of the LLRC are looking forward to attending the annual conference of RaPAL (<a href="http://www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk/rapal/">http://www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk/rapal/</a> )which will be held outside the UK for the first time this year. The conference will take place in Galway, Ireland from 19-21 June and is being organised by Kieran Harrington who works at City of Galway VEC. Kieran has written an article about RaPAL and literacies learning in Ireland, which was published on 20 May in the Irish Independent. Please follow this link to read the article:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.independent.ie/education/latest-news/time-for-serious-reflection-on-adult-literacy-1381561.html">http://www.independent.ie/education/latest-news/time-for-serious-reflection-on-adult-literacy-1381561.html</a>LRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-62577325133823562842008-05-21T08:07:00.001-07:002008-05-21T08:11:54.622-07:00Chain chain chain....What is the eternal fascination of chain letters? I remember them from my childhood; wikipedia dates them from 1935 (I'd be quite surprised if there isn't any earlier evidence though) and confirms they're still popular on email. One on Facebook claims 4m although - or perhaps because as it claims - the only purpose is to see how big the chain can get. I'd heard of it and then found its origin reported <a href="http://www.steve-jackson.net/six_degrees/index.html">here</a>.LRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-64525786630879111022008-05-02T11:50:00.000-07:002008-05-02T12:25:23.208-07:00Creating Connections: Policy Research and Practice<span style="color:#000099;">This was the title of a conference organised in Glasgow by Learning Connections, which I attended on Tuesday 29 April. For me the highlight of the day was a session in which three adult literacies practitioners gave presentations on the action research projects they had carried out as part of an online professional development course. What impressed me most about their presentations was that they spoke in a very confident and matter-of-fact way about the theory they had been using. What's more, their references to theory were woven into their discussion about some very practical issues connected with their work. One of them summed up their approach when she said 'We know better by doing and do better by knowing.' Another presenter described how he used to think of himself as an 'intuitive' teacher, but carrying out his research had convinced him that intuitions need to be examined and questioned, and that theory is a good tool for doing this. These teachers seemed to have made a very real connection between research and practice in literacies, one which they all felt would become an enduring aspect of their work. </span>LRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-38521927021977854612008-04-30T03:39:00.000-07:002008-12-10T09:09:51.694-08:00Communications around the Olympic torch on Everest<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaDhJDBu8AHUIj_Q5hv-FfyHrcYNEWbY6r7T6oFkqN6RBaNhDGnHOETA-vOALHs0XnlNOcGBhaqxp7cUkpXZA_Pbw4odZZ-s-BZJJ_tEo7iAzPYx3_3yzpeWLJqfy3XgWW539sqczh3qM/s1600-h/Jim+Curtins+sign.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5194990458932029762" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaDhJDBu8AHUIj_Q5hv-FfyHrcYNEWbY6r7T6oFkqN6RBaNhDGnHOETA-vOALHs0XnlNOcGBhaqxp7cUkpXZA_Pbw4odZZ-s-BZJJ_tEo7iAzPYx3_3yzpeWLJqfy3XgWW539sqczh3qM/s400/Jim+Curtins+sign.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>With a <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7371975.stm">news blackout </a>at Everest base camp, some blogs are attracting considerable attention chronicling the Chinese government's attempts to get the torch up the mountainside. <a href="http://www.humanedgetech.com/expedition/curtin/index.php?dispid=1&view=32101">Jim Curtin </a>has posted a photo of a sign at Camp II, handwritten on improvised materials, telling climbers they cannot go forwards. I can't help noticing it is in excellent standard English, by someone with a very good eye for the conventional layout of such notices. </div>LRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-28303166480482442092008-04-30T03:19:00.000-07:002008-04-30T03:36:13.404-07:00BooksYesterday the Literacy Research Discussion Group had an open discussion of books. Here are the titles people brought along, and succeeded in making some interesting links among:<br /><br />Writing on the Plaza: mediated literacy practices among scribes and clients in Mexico City. Judy Kalman (Hampton Press, 1997)<br />Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See. (Penguin, 2006)<br />Illuminating Disadvantage: profiling the experienes of adults with entry level literacy or numeracy over the lifecourse: research report. John Brynner & Samantha Parsons. National Research and Development Centre for adult literacy and numeracy research report (NRDC, 2008).<br />Actual Minds, Possible Worlds, Jerome Bruner (Harvard University Press, 1986)<br />Pies and Prejudice - in search of the North. Stuart Maconie (Ebury Press, 2008)<br />Les ecrits de septembre 11: New York 2001. Beatrice Frankel (Textual, 2002)<br />Introducing Bakhtin. Sue Vice. (Manchester University Press. 1997)<br />Birds without Wings. Louis De Bernieres. (Vintage 2005)<br />Doce Cuentos Peregrinos. Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Grupo Editorial Norma USA, 1998)<br />Someday you will no all about me. Anne Robinson, Leslie Crawford, Nigel Hall. Heinemann, USA (1990).<br /><br />Some of these books may have been published before or since as well in various editions . I'm sorry I haven't always inserted accents where they should be too.<br />JGLRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-38257610162819753872008-04-14T09:15:00.001-07:002008-04-14T09:22:18.101-07:00Changing Literacies, Changing TechnologiesThis is the title of a collaborative research project I am involved with at Lancaster through the Senior Learners Forum.<br />We have been meeting since December to document the experiences of older people in relation to changing practices of literacy and technologies across the lifespan - both positive and negative.<br /><br />It is still possible for people to join the project.<br />You need to choose two people to interview who are contrasting in some way. For example, they might be:<br />Older or younger<br />Use new technologies or don’t use them<br />Live in an urban or a rural area<br />Be male or female;<br />Have different past experiences of education and employment;<br />Have a positive or negative attitude to new technologies.<br /><br />Overall we are interested in making a contribution to wider research with older adults that is looking at why and how they use new communications technologies (ICTs), how uses are changing , what ICTS offer people and the choices people make to use new technologies or not. I have circulated some articles by Stephen Gorard that describe the larger-scale research he has been doing and that our research can fit into.<br /><br />We agreed that our particular theme will be: do new communication technologies increase isolation or do they increase social contact for older people?<br /><br />If you are interested in joining us or keeping in touch with what we are doing, please let me know!<br /><br />MaryLRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-32001126298639613112008-04-14T08:44:00.000-07:002008-04-14T09:14:32.429-07:00Nothing to Write Home AboutThanks to Fiona Frank for this link to a great book of postcards from the time before emails and mobile phones when everyone sent cards, whether they had anything to say or not.....<br /><br /><a href="http://www.abadie.co.uk/postcards/aboutthebook.htm">http://www.abadie.co.uk/postcards/aboutthebook.htm</a><br /><br />MaryLRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-37490274832639435262008-03-21T04:39:00.000-07:002008-12-10T09:09:52.061-08:00LRC in the Times Higher<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSEYC9tUMo4B6TOeqiAAUaKWYkWGTcOet0T2MevPco_iWm_H-EdCRgFePVNIKmS7jJZeG-BNje8vp5L_922JqChakTjhmZFYlcfNkw9ag7VaFONVDBU7k27x-OiLs2bDEs-aeoFhuXPzk/s1600-h/61053~Science-and-the-Arts-Posters.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5180159808117079858" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSEYC9tUMo4B6TOeqiAAUaKWYkWGTcOet0T2MevPco_iWm_H-EdCRgFePVNIKmS7jJZeG-BNje8vp5L_922JqChakTjhmZFYlcfNkw9ag7VaFONVDBU7k27x-OiLs2bDEs-aeoFhuXPzk/s400/61053~Science-and-the-Arts-Posters.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Our Literacy Research Centre is mentioned in the Times Higher Education magazine today, in the context of an article about Institutes of Advanced Studies in UK universities. The best thing about the article for me is the reproduction of an astonishing painting I have never seen before, 'Science and the Arts' by Adriaen van Stalbemt. THES reproduces this very detailed work, including some literacy practices, in a double page spread that's really worth having a look at. </div><br /><div></div><br /><p>It's a seventeenth century painting, held in the Prado, but I can find out little about the artist freely available on the internet, although this seems quite popular as a poster. </p><p>JG</p>LRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-40148692710619166752008-03-11T08:00:00.000-07:002008-03-11T08:06:33.511-07:00The 'Cute Cat Theory' of the InternetKarin writes:<br /><br />Since we're thinking about digital literacies at the moment, I thought I would post this link to a great post on the <a href="http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/03/08/the-cute-cat-theory-talk-at-etech/">'Cute Cat Theory of the Internet'</a> by Ethan Zuckerman. The starting point - that Web 1.0 was invented to help physicists share research papers, while Web 2.0 was created to allow people to share pictures of cute cats - is a succinct expression of some of the ideas about 'ludic literacies online' we have been talking about. He moves on to develop a more serious point about the way the 'cute cat' technologies are being used by global political activists - and the unintended consequences when governments try to block the activists' sites (you don't want to annoy the cute cat sharers too, then they might just notice they're living under a repressive regime!)<br /><br /> Well worth a look. Even if you don't like cute cats.LRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-48256648626380292932008-03-06T05:25:00.000-08:002008-12-10T09:09:52.915-08:00electioneering<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjKUj8y0eMRZQYudCuYaa7d5Q6NbP6lvOp_xAd78Ycn5Q6TdckfBiH4JinkDy1SeZAti3joVms0pfgS80m9YTAMPHgNGZDF9BM_Unr2BRucACuDO93uOr-ZwCWDPCROHacRTNYg9367o8/s1600-h/yellow.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174622838754474130" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjKUj8y0eMRZQYudCuYaa7d5Q6NbP6lvOp_xAd78Ycn5Q6TdckfBiH4JinkDy1SeZAti3joVms0pfgS80m9YTAMPHgNGZDF9BM_Unr2BRucACuDO93uOr-ZwCWDPCROHacRTNYg9367o8/s200/yellow.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhat7rpyeWr3HSa9ZJQYjjFHb6cxY1-6gj7WtzwvW9Kkx3lGY5YALPYs5W5EhAVNf7YZyZS5IjV1DVgyK9T54H3yMRwusTK-uFGdQF2_F3Yd7ikoE2YYiAh4TJVV0TN8sRBQhVPmJsORSg/s1600-h/swing.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174622495157090434" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhat7rpyeWr3HSa9ZJQYjjFHb6cxY1-6gj7WtzwvW9Kkx3lGY5YALPYs5W5EhAVNf7YZyZS5IjV1DVgyK9T54H3yMRwusTK-uFGdQF2_F3Yd7ikoE2YYiAh4TJVV0TN8sRBQhVPmJsORSg/s400/swing.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH0Qg16c4zmBBz_UAjPtD1MI_3eJMdm2PIHffOWJiNnFyGPUMcReb6ubTeYRnqXJ7LnQXmYEnNKxR1eFKDr6-RzqisDO0HjPGx03UjZJrXRBPIdipSbcowAHSDC1hgHfyP20DGYpEiYks/s1600-h/cafe.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174622134379837554" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH0Qg16c4zmBBz_UAjPtD1MI_3eJMdm2PIHffOWJiNnFyGPUMcReb6ubTeYRnqXJ7LnQXmYEnNKxR1eFKDr6-RzqisDO0HjPGx03UjZJrXRBPIdipSbcowAHSDC1hgHfyP20DGYpEiYks/s320/cafe.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw0jVH9WVsTqzgfa2INX5VBl8dbIV6vQwAN8zjDLV7g-Q5I2eLH8KidNSjTPm9Xp04XdQdClJ_tfdHhP0xCX8ezdvSpkNsC28t5MASkRHXcTCl_sP_qM-WkgUWykCBfcZ2PO_v1pKDmOc/s1600-h/emily.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174621885271734370" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw0jVH9WVsTqzgfa2INX5VBl8dbIV6vQwAN8zjDLV7g-Q5I2eLH8KidNSjTPm9Xp04XdQdClJ_tfdHhP0xCX8ezdvSpkNsC28t5MASkRHXcTCl_sP_qM-WkgUWykCBfcZ2PO_v1pKDmOc/s320/emily.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDy71q6P-kJkaLYhPoIGziEMz1Z_a-zw4F-mWZ6K1QPhElCTmkXAO5T4JcYKUAUZFitmQow-nc3I5dj_7KaDJar7X6yXN9QSHsCFoSn5qpg6LTnftzxStOe5uMg4Mp7ynb4gDpIObcafQ/s1600-h/pillar.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174621472954873938" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDy71q6P-kJkaLYhPoIGziEMz1Z_a-zw4F-mWZ6K1QPhElCTmkXAO5T4JcYKUAUZFitmQow-nc3I5dj_7KaDJar7X6yXN9QSHsCFoSn5qpg6LTnftzxStOe5uMg4Mp7ynb4gDpIObcafQ/s320/pillar.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfckM_Orac1fEw85jIILHV14EarJbWOnQJSsVNaaSbSmxmOzKGLMWpYi2RQwyuGNvlSon-wL7gfwi-JojJSvvkC61fl-DKyz5b3SPTmHwGNUtQacWa_AOT6tQlxuKWkowmgSMPorVjis/s1600-h/hulk.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174621099292719170" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIfckM_Orac1fEw85jIILHV14EarJbWOnQJSsVNaaSbSmxmOzKGLMWpYi2RQwyuGNvlSon-wL7gfwi-JojJSvvkC61fl-DKyz5b3SPTmHwGNUtQacWa_AOT6tQlxuKWkowmgSMPorVjis/s320/hulk.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div>Today the campus of Lancaster University is buzzing with elections for student union sabbatical posts so signs are everywhere. </div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div></div></div></div></div></div></div>LRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-45915520015168084892008-03-04T07:43:00.000-08:002008-12-10T09:09:53.215-08:00postcard competition<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_72M5RU2NqJQAbATCDRxuBevQtvIgBrn51B173IB_uKp8GSthTIi4Q5fnXQNe5rpDjZBD4oq06Mr-lpiQOWZ4M28Q0fGE6Wo6jlsDpwgmC7wOnYaWY72HNpVhnQF-qGY55YG3dxqqIqA/s1600-h/20080304-LRC-competition.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173915851307653122" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_72M5RU2NqJQAbATCDRxuBevQtvIgBrn51B173IB_uKp8GSthTIi4Q5fnXQNe5rpDjZBD4oq06Mr-lpiQOWZ4M28Q0fGE6Wo6jlsDpwgmC7wOnYaWY72HNpVhnQF-qGY55YG3dxqqIqA/s400/20080304-LRC-competition.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><br /><br /><div>Julia writes: The photo shows the judging of the postcard competition. This took place immediately after a fascinating talk by Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza of the University of Sao Paulo to the <a href="http://www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk/what/lrdg/lrdg.htm">Literacy Research Discussion Group </a>entitled 'Lending ears to the visual in writing' concerning his research on literacy practices among indigenous peoples in Brazil. <br /></div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div>LRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-92107924528957337002008-03-04T07:15:00.000-08:002008-03-04T07:16:54.593-08:00DB says: There were 44 images submitted for the latest postcard competition. Judging has just finished, with 10 extremely fair and impartial judges and we have chosen the next set of 8 postcards which we will soon be publishing... more later....LRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-11102147221185111402008-02-20T06:48:00.000-08:002008-02-20T06:51:01.319-08:00Candice writes:<br />On Valentine’s Day there was discussion on Radio 4 about Brief Encounter and the most interesting thing I learnt was that the screenplay was edited by telegram, because Noel Coward was in India at the time the film was being made. I wondered about the implications of this and how it must concentrate the mind on the task – does it account for every word in the script being very carefully chosen with absolutely no room for superfluous talk, and does that in turn help to make it such a wonderful film?<br />It made me think about the differences in the way I’ve been editing documents recently - by email, in collaboration with several others using ‘tracking changes’ and ‘comments’, and actually being able to waffle at length with the risk of the precise intended meaning being lost – either in formulation or in transmission.<br />So is there something to be said for the discipline of editing by telegram? Probably not, but an interesting idea I thought.LRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-78039505860856120652008-02-14T01:30:00.000-08:002008-02-14T01:32:31.525-08:00Doodle.chWe're playing with a meeting planning tool called Doodle. You can get it <a href="http://www.doodle.ch/">here</a>.<br />If you want to arrange something with a number of people you can set up a poll and they can easily vote for any of the slots they are available for. Then it's very easy to see which date everyone can manage.LRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-19188960141462140662008-02-02T08:38:00.000-08:002008-12-10T09:09:53.437-08:00postcards<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXtqkFwL0K0N6fqH7oi7nDmHj_hsFffOeTT6s0CrsUpyVWHNacchEZlSLQ3bBVJsMPs2Mtr-Fln2zxwZpc-ucilaX9Nal40KjOB-wqoJntFYunkMVr865PRyPUVnQbgECxhmEUp71nm-U/s1600-h/car-parking.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5162423982711533314" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXtqkFwL0K0N6fqH7oi7nDmHj_hsFffOeTT6s0CrsUpyVWHNacchEZlSLQ3bBVJsMPs2Mtr-Fln2zxwZpc-ucilaX9Nal40KjOB-wqoJntFYunkMVr865PRyPUVnQbgECxhmEUp71nm-U/s200/car-parking.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><em>Julia writes</em>: The Lancaster Literacy Research Centre is having an internal competition to issue a new set of postcards. The current set is absolutely magnificent so I am not sure I have anything to enter. However I did snap this recently as it amused me. - but unfortunately when uploaded it's hard to see that the sign on the left says 'No Parking'.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br />These remind me that <a href="http://fels-staff.open.ac.uk/guy-cook/">Guy Cook </a>said recently that signs often indicate the opposite of their apparent meaning. For example a sign that says 'no exit' on a door means that you could get out of it.LRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-43974829692767820792008-01-15T06:25:00.000-08:002008-01-15T06:32:21.469-08:00BookCrossingJust went to a fascinating talk at the <a href="http://www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk/what/lrdg/lrdg.htm">Literacy Research Discussion Group </a>on <a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/">BookCrossing</a> by Steve Lucas and Lynn Moores. This is a terrific international system of passing books between bibliophiles completely free of charge. I tested the system immediately by registering - which was easy - 'catching' a book and registering a journal entry to it for the site. <br /><br />I particularly enjoyed Steve's tales about books' trajectories around the world and also the 'themed releases' such as the copy of Eats Shoots & Leaves that was left beside a salad bar in a supermarket and Holes left above a compressor in some roadworks. Wonderful also to hear about people hiking up mountains to 'catch' a book.<br /><br />Lynn made a very powerful argument for the site as a cross-over for connections among book lovers both online and offline and demonstrated what wonderful work the library service has done in Oxfordshire with books that might otherwise have been pulped.<br /><br />JuliaLRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-65021402125399239972008-01-11T03:22:00.000-08:002008-12-10T09:09:53.620-08:00everyday writings of Vindolanda<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0tU7_Umc1xvE9CWffBz7YtCANEepD0FrR9P9x6EY1L9SCqtUas4qb5wZsaspcb9iBXY-rnOfn_LUBwZQmJnAzGv4MOrbpoz49igy47JAfdINg2jxHoxkuBlPtQsH-CtQTYDgb1isJsUQ/s1600-h/291_1-front_t.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5154178458041627250" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0tU7_Umc1xvE9CWffBz7YtCANEepD0FrR9P9x6EY1L9SCqtUas4qb5wZsaspcb9iBXY-rnOfn_LUBwZQmJnAzGv4MOrbpoz49igy47JAfdINg2jxHoxkuBlPtQsH-CtQTYDgb1isJsUQ/s320/291_1-front_t.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Yesterday the BBC Radio 4 programme <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld.shtml">'Material World' </a>had a fascinating piece on the 'Vindolanda texts'. This is the biggest hoard of everyday writings from a military outpost in Roman Britain. The programme was most interested in the enormous challenges presented in reading them however there were some fascinating quotations. The programme describes them thus: "They are like our emails today - quick, frivolous messages to friends and relatives: from laundry lists to letters asking for warmer underwear." I'm not quite sure why matters of personal importance should be described as 'frivolous'. The superb <a href="http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/tablets/browse.shtml">Vindolanda Tablets Online </a>website defines this category as 'necessities of life'. Their other categories are: families, pleasures and ceremonies; letters to make, keep (or lose) friends; and military matters. JG<br /></div><br /><div>Illustration comes from:<br /><a href="http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/TVII-291" target="_parent">http://vindolanda.csad.ox.ac.uk/TVII-291</a> </div>LRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-51619115884728324522007-12-13T06:27:00.000-08:002008-12-10T09:09:53.745-08:00Diaries<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkmIPGytsEt50yHzh7VdsHRbtylbbYgx7GwalIeCjWQWLiNHbVUGv22NsYGrq7dTbzbcjZ7S8dlzQVzdxMD9Sj7bp2HqCaR2yZeHH4J6TCpRgd7DzwF6GwMw2oiJxR0E8HUMMisPSyiZU/s1600-h/sinor.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143469683677055954" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkmIPGytsEt50yHzh7VdsHRbtylbbYgx7GwalIeCjWQWLiNHbVUGv22NsYGrq7dTbzbcjZ7S8dlzQVzdxMD9Sj7bp2HqCaR2yZeHH4J6TCpRgd7DzwF6GwMw2oiJxR0E8HUMMisPSyiZU/s200/sinor.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I am reading the very wonderful book: 'Annie Ray's diary: the extraordinary work of ordinary writing' by Jennifer Sinor. By coincidence it was recommended to me at just about the time that Irving Finkel of the British Museum came to the <a href="http://www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk/what/lrdg/2007.htm">Literacy Research Discussion Group </a>to discuss: 'What happens to diaries?'. Perhaps wrongly, I understood him to claim that there is little literature about psychological motivations to keep diaries and the practice in general - of course there is a great deal of scholarly attention to famous diaries. However Jennifer Sinor's literature review contributes greatly to the topic of everyday writing and then the diary she discusses - of her ancestor in the late nineteenth century - is indeed illuminated beautifully through her analysis.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>In what might be regarded as a summary of some of her arguments on pp. 182-183 Jennifer Sinor suggests:</div><br /><ul><br /><li>Diaries are 'ordinary writing' par excellence and that ordinary writing is not literary. 'The limit of the literary, though, is also what makes ordinary writing so powerful and pervasive.' </li><br /><li>Ordinary writing is what is disregarded.</li><br /><li>Ordinary writing is 'not supposed to be here but it is.'</li></ul><br /><div>'That is what makes it an opportune site for contemplating the ways in which ordinary choices by ordinary writers at ordinary moments reveal the complex set of negotiations constantly undertaken by writers, by people living in the world.'</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>With the aid of Annie Ray's diary, JS expounds upon the diurnal rhythms of the diary and how to 'delight in dailiness, rhythm, and repetition. To read her text in terms of what she makes as a writer rather than what she lacks. The capacity of dailiness to shape the diurnal form is revealed even at the level of syntax and requires that I pay attention to aspects and qualities of texts I have been trained to ignore, despise, or delete.' (p. 57).</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>However, as much as I am enjoying her book, I am wondering whether the dramatic elements JS brings to the story of Annie Ray's diary - that would befit any novel - work slightly against her overall argument. I have to admit I enjoy the elements of suspense and revelations enormously though and find myself turning backwards and forwards through the book to try to piece together the very narrative thread - clearly the literary - that JS argued should not be the 'valued.'</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>The book will be in the LRC <a href="http://www.literacy.lancs.ac.uk/resources/resourcecentre.htm">Literacy Resource Centre </a>as soon as I can bear to put it there. I should really asap as I am dying to discuss the book with someone. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Julia</div>LRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751580459956113337.post-82973977356262637542007-12-03T06:16:00.000-08:002008-12-10T09:09:53.887-08:00mapwork<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo5iSjNsIKL4rke-_P9nbycLxeb0g2cIFFYiYG9d_gOYRk1saztUzPeYOSpWA909jFvs2fsRBNBscl-Hz63V6BqNzpo1q5SrpPSvSdr7GzdObhDuTpQtJKr8qo1nJxJWfUYSrPIYvH1Fk/s1600-r/29112007012.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139754830478776898" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWrj4sZkTc0Fm7Td5mjYbKw7s1MHC_jhuIuOwV4467pIjCDn8Tlz_is3mmEkq-3IsX8zGx08crHvLgTdVVAhN45UW_u57drOIrqYdTu-WxRT96OMWoQTJEaQS_2NEFN-oyqqEyRlv8GI0/s320/29112007012.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I rely quite a lot on maps as I do not have a good sense of direction. I retreated from the library the other day because I could not find an office I had been to in there before - it wasn't marked on the maps because (I think!) although it is in the library it belongs to a different service. It can also be quite hard to find specific buildings on this campus unless you have a portable map. I find it very hard to imagine what use maps such as this one, just outside the library, might be. It gives a plan of building locations, each building being marked with a number. The number does not relate to any kind of available key; nor are the building numbers visible on the buildings themselves. </div><br /><div></div><br /><div>I think the reading and authoring of maps is a fascinating topic. There is such a need for a strong mutual striving towards shared understandings of symbols that in a way it is the archetypal 'literacy.' You don't always know what you can do with a map straight away until you arrive at a really good active understanding of it; I would be quite handicapped if the 'mini map' function was turned off in my <a href="http://schome.open.ac.uk/wikiworks/index.php/Main_Page">'virtual worlds' </a>project for example, and yet I probably had no idea it was there let alone how to use it when I first went 'inworld.'</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>I think 'mapwork' would be a fantastic future <a href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/ias/annualprogramme/ARP%202009-10%20call.pdf">theme for the Institute of Advanced Studies </a>here at Lancaster. But I see the closing date has gone for 2009-10. I have time to think about it perhaps for the following year! I wonder what themes were submitted. </div><div>Julia</div>LRChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16073888450994952563noreply@blogger.com1