Monday, November 23, 2009

Digital and Analogue Literacy's

I am third year Multi Media Studies student.
While I was at school there were such things as computers, however not everyone had one , in fact I didn't know anyone that did, maybe it was because they were two or more stories tall and took the space of a city block to house them. At least that's the excuse I use for not having had one....a bit heavy as well.
So here I am a grandmother, and now all but completely submerged in technology...at this point I had best point out that I love it, technology that is.
I am hoping to complete my degree at the end of this term, I then will enrol in the Diploma of Education, for beginning of next year. My ambition is to teach computer studies, how exciting is that an immigrant granny teaching, the future digital elite.
What interests me mostly is literacy or the lack of it, not just the usual stuff like reading or writing, but others problems regarding literacy, the thing that really interests me is colour literacy. I have seen that many children who do not understand colour, nor do they understand which colours make which, eg. blue and yellow make green or that the tone can be altered with white or black. This may not seem like a big issue, but I believe it is, any illiteracy is not good, I devised a small flash animation aimed at children and will upload it to this blog.
I believe E-Learning will help me to explain myself and to also show me how to make teaching somewhat more fun.
As I add to this blog I hope that you too will find it interesting and leave some comments.
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3 comments:

  1. Great start, Kathleen!!

    I would love to have you as "immigrant IT granny" for our children!! I am sure it is not easy for you however you are doing well and look forward to read your blog especially you are doing similar study at the moment. Keep posting!

    Regards
    Makiko

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  2. Hi kathleen, well look at you, very clever weel donr in creating your blog and I am now one of your followers
    regards
    lynn

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  3. Hi Kathleen,
    I can't wait to see the tool you created to teach children colours. What an original concept.
    Regards,
    Sharon

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