Finding time…
// May 24th, 2009 // Life

Another half term arrives and once again I wonder where time is disappearing to. The reason is partially because the past half term has been so short and yet so jam packed with things to do.
I was hoping to read the above three books over half term: Critical Literacies in Action, Desirable Literacies (co-edited by Jackie) and the new Web 2.0 for Schools book by Julia and Guy. However, it looks like the writing of end of term reports and catching up with paper work is going to take over. I was hoping to re-read ‘A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies’ too before UKLA Greenwich. I can but live in hope…
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I am a primary school teacher and educational researcher based in the United Kingdom. I am interested in the application of multiliteracies, critical literacy and creative learning into real classrooms. I am also fascinated by children's' popular culture and how it can be embedded into the curriculum.
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- Dissertation - Exploring the effects of multimodality on writing. Winner of UKLA Dissertation award.
- ESRC Paper - ‘A fixed point in time and pedagogy’ presented at the ESRC Virtual Worlds seminar series.
- Multiliteracies Paper - Presented at 45th UKLA Conference ‘Building literate communities’ at University of Greenwich, July 2009.
- Using Twitter in the Primary Classroom - My article about @ClassroomTweets, which was published in English 4-11.
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- Learning to Tweet or Tweeting to Learn - Initial blog post about using Twitter in the primary classroom
- New Literacy Studies 1 - Blog post where I explore NLS and the idea of ‘simulated literacy events’
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