Comments for dblteach http://dblteach.naaceblogs.org Random jottings on learning technologies Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:50:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 Comment on Jot 2 Motoliterate by The Ford in Torquay » Loss of literacy? http://dblteach.naaceblogs.org/2006/02/27/jot-2/comment-page-1/#comment-5 The Ford in Torquay » Loss of literacy? Mon, 27 Feb 2006 18:00:16 +0000 http://dblteach.naaceblogs.org/2006/02/27/jot-2/#comment-5 [...] This quote over at dblteach is definitlely going to feature in my presentation I think the answer to the people (sometimes me) who complain about a loss of literacy is becoming apparent. Surely communication via the printed or spoken word is more intense now than ever. Voicemail or texting, blogs, podcasts, videocasts, all mix commentary with other forms of communication in exciting ways. Teenage bloggers often write far more creatively in their personal blogs than they do in the classroom. Jokes, puns, topical allusion, cynical/rueful aside, heartfelt commentary, angry denunciation, bursts of poetry or apposite quotation are all present in many of these often lengthy letters to the world [...] [...] This quote over at dblteach is definitlely going to feature in my presentation I think the answer to the people (sometimes me) who complain about a loss of literacy is becoming apparent. Surely communication via the printed or spoken word is more intense now than ever. Voicemail or texting, blogs, podcasts, videocasts, all mix commentary with other forms of communication in exciting ways. Teenage bloggers often write far more creatively in their personal blogs than they do in the classroom. Jokes, puns, topical allusion, cynical/rueful aside, heartfelt commentary, angry denunciation, bursts of poetry or apposite quotation are all present in many of these often lengthy letters to the world [...]

]]> Comment on Jot 1 A Burnt Out Case by Peter Ford http://dblteach.naaceblogs.org/2006/02/18/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Peter Ford Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:40:30 +0000 1117361631#comment-4 Great to have you on board :-) Great to have you on board :-)

]]> Comment on Jot 1 A Burnt Out Case by mark http://dblteach.naaceblogs.org/2006/02/18/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-3 mark Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:16:24 +0000 1117361631#comment-3 Like the theme tho' - "a clean, relaxing theme" - it certainly is :) Like the theme tho’ - “a clean, relaxing theme” - it certainly is :)

]]> Comment on Jot 1 A Burnt Out Case by mark http://dblteach.naaceblogs.org/2006/02/18/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-2 mark Sat, 18 Feb 2006 21:10:02 +0000 1117361631#comment-2 euargh! :0P euargh! :0P

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