Projects
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Brer Rabbit and Critical Literacy
Everybody’s got a laughing place…
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KiKi Flies Again
Kiki is flying all over the land today…
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Welcome
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RT @CapeUK: Are you Creative? It's more than paper & glue – it's about finding solutions, being innovative, a critical skill to help fac ... [MultiMartin]
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Hope everyone has a great second day at #gtauk - sorry I can't make it today. Yesterday was awesome. [MultiMartin]
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An absolutely fantastic and inspiring approach to VLEs demonstrated by @EdintheClouds at #gtauk [MultiMartin]
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Excellent presentation by @kvnmcl - great ideas to use in the primary classroom #gtauk [MultiMartin]
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RT @lthumann: have I mentioned lately how much I love my Droid? #gtauk < Android is brilliant! [MultiMartin]
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Great session at Google by @dajbelshaw about Google Earth, thought for a minute I was going to have to design a 3D building! [MultiMartin]
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Having a great day at Google Teacher Academy... information overload. (@ Google UK HQ w/ 4 others) http://4sq.com/4ucJ1g [MultiMartin]
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I never knew you could do so much with Google Search #gtauk [MultiMartin]
My photos. Now you know me.
Downloads
- 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.
I have worked with...
- Durham University - As a guest lecturer for Digital Literacy and research associate
- Futurelab - As an advisor on their ‘Digital Participation’ project, funded by BECTA
- Stockton Local Education Authority - As a primary school teacher as well as running training sessions
- UKLA - I work as part of the ‘Learning Today’ task group and have also presented findings at international conferences
- Whole Child Learning - Research and development work based around creative learning and curriculum innovation
Popular Posts
- A Developing Storm - Response to the axing of the new primary curriculum
- Creating Space for Critical Literacy - Reflections on the critical literacy project I designed to explore racial predjudice through the Uncle Remus stories
- Injecting SATs with a strong dose of popular culture - How our SATs week was transformed into a High School Musical themed week
- 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’
Latest Comments
- Isobel Urquhart: Hi Liked your presentation and very interested by your findings. Are you publishing in more detail...
- Bruce: Like most of the children – I didn’t want it to end!!
- Social Media: their literacy skills. But, as @MultiMartin says on his...
- FreshNetworks social media blog: ways of expressing themselves and improve their literacy skills. But, as...
- MarkSpizer: great post as usual!
Blogroll
- Angela A. Thomas - Brilliant blog by Angela T
- argle.net - By Angela Colvert
- Digilane - A blog by the amazing Elaine Millard
- Digital Beginnings - Fantastic blog by Jackie Marsh
- Digital Literacies - By the one and only DrJoolz
- Lapland - A blog by Sylvia and Mick
- LordLit - Ponderings and musings from Bill Lord
- my vedana - Excellent blog from Guy Merchant
- word and image - A blog by Sigrid
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