New+Literacies

** Team Name: ** [|New Literacies]

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** Team members: **=====

John Thomas - Winters Flat Primary School & Castlemaine Primary School
Trish Dower - Pleasant Street Primary School Matt Scott - Berwick Primary School Ray Brookman - Kalinda Primary School Richard Lambert - Kalinda Primary School Suzie Janssen - Bendigo Senior Secondary College Kathryn Hamilton - Bendigo Senior Secondary College Alyson Leete - Arthurs Creek Primary School Michelle Johnson - Streeton Primary School

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** Schools: ** Winters Flat PS, [|Castlemaine PS], [|Bendigo Senior Secondary College], [|Arthurs Creek PS], [|Streeton PS] =====

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** Abstract **===== Our team began by discussing a range of new literacies including online research, wikis, texting, blogging and micro-blogging. We then narrowed our focus to one key new literacy - blogging. Posting on Facebook, on a micro-blogging platform like Twitter or on a personal blog is now so commonplace that it’s easy to forget how new blogging is and how rapidly it is growing. If our students aren’t already blogging, then they will be soon, so it is important for teachers, students and parents to better understand blogging - its pitfalls and its benefits. We set out to introduce our students to blogging and record our learning along the way.

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** Problem, Issue, or Possibility //(// //Topic/Driving Question (What is guiding your PBL?) //**=====

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===== Our driving question was, “In what ways does writing and communicating through blogging improve student learning and literacies?” To our students, some as young as six, we simplified this to questions like, “How has blogging improved your reading and writing?” and “What have you learned through blogging?”

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** Objectives and Assessment **=====

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===== Our objective was to introduce our students to blogging, to let them explore and to record their learning - and our own - along the way. Our assessment process was anecdotal and included input from our students both at the beginning and the end of our project.

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** Implementation Plan (Both teacher led activities and student led activities)- **=====

Include your Culminating Activity (How will you draw the PBL activity to a close?)

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// *Please include the timeline for the project. This can be a bulleted list.* //=====

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//*Please include lessons learned and takeaways. How did it turn out? Where are you now in the project?*//=====

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**Artifacts and Documentation**=====

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//*Please share any and all materials developed throughout the project. Artifacts can include videos, meeting notes, surveys used, presentations, pictures, supporting documents, URLs, slide sets, etc.*//=====