(Depth of Mist Wood)

After failing my previous Ed.D. thesis proposal (I can see why now...) I'm beginning the process of starting from first principles, this time building towards analysing the concept of 'digital literacy'. The books I'll be looking at today are both ones I've looked at (briefly) before and are both edited by Ilana Snyder:

• * Page to Screen: taking literacy into the electronic era
• * Silicon Literacies: communication, innovation and education in the electronic age

I'll be putting my notes, as usual, over at teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk/wiki in the 'thesis' section.

A lot of the research I've been doing recently on the concept of 'digital literacy' either references Ilana Snyder or is in a book edited by her. Perhaps I need to get in touch, especially as according to her profile it appears she's got a new book coming out in February 2008... :-)

The notes I've made from Page to Screen: taking literacy into the electronic era (1998) and Silicon Literacies: communication, innovation and education in the electronic age (2002) can be found on my wiki.

Unfortunately, the libraries at both Durham and Sheffield universities do not stock Doing literacy online: Teaching, learning and playing in an electronic world (2004) and I'll likely not be able to access The Literacy Wars when it comes out in February 2008... :-(

I've just found out via a mass-mailing that my current Ed.D. supervisor, Stewart Martin, is leaving the University of Durham next month to become Principal Lecturer in Education in the School of Social Sciences and Law at Teesside University. I'm obviously pleased for him, but it kind of forces me to do what I was thinking of doing on the basis of a rash decision anyway - i.e. change my supervisor.

I can now understand why he was a bit fuzzy about when to hand in my re-written thesis proposal... 

Cin Barnsley has an interesting post on Information Literacy entitled Lifting the Fog in which she posts a useful image (above) and video (can't embed here...)

Update: In a subsequent post, Cin brought my attention to a presentation entitled Literacy Remixed in a Web 2.0 World by Judy O'Connell.