Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Collaborate Your Interactive Multiliteracies Effectively

A traditional definition of literacy highlights reading and writing skills as THE skills of literacy. This definition has been expanded to include several literacies: reading, writing, science, and mathematics. There are literacies involving emotional intelligence, life transition skills, the creative arts, performing arts, and the list can go on and on.
Recently a term, multimedia literacies crept into our litracy vocabulary. These literacies refer to skill in using a variety of media to communicate information. The media includes text, audio, visual, graphics, and animation.
And now we have the phrase multiliteracies for collaborative learning environments as a identifyer of literacy. This phrase stresses the interactivity of communicating with others using a variety of different media. It also implies using themost efficient and effective media for sharing information and interacting with others contributing to a project, task, or effort.

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