Certificate in Digital Literacies

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This course will involve a critical investigation of digital literacies, multimodal digital authoring and new forms of social networking, covering the upper years of primary schooling to the HSC years. The course is designed to provide sufficient time for experimentation with materials and ideas in between sessions, and, from Session 2, will include opportunities for participant feedback and sharing. During the sessions students will:

• Examine and analyse a range of multimodal digital fiction and discuss how they might be included in studies of new forms of narrative
• Discuss fan fiction and its value in young people's writing development
• Be introduced to a range of social networking sites including blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and wikis and discuss ways teachers are currently (and might in future be) using such sites for enhancing student literacy
• Discuss how video games might be used in the classroom for educational purposes
• Explore the virtual world of Second Life and see how thousands of educators around the world are leveraging this space for all of its educational affordances
• Explore the use of digital spaces for identity play, creativity and role-playing and evaluate how these concepts influence, shape or contribute to innovative literacy uses by young people, and
• Learn how to create a machinima using Kahootz and / or Second Life as a multimedia authoring tool.