This presentation provides cues for NLI 2012 participants to make observations about their PollEverywhere responses to the question provided at the July 9 Kick-Off Reception: What Are New Literacies? Please post your observations and reflections via Twitter (#NLI2012) and/or the NLI 2012 Group on the New Literacies Collaborative ning (http://newlit.org).

1. Our Initial Ideas
About New Literacies:
What are they? Where do we start?
Carl Young
NLI Teacher Leader Institute
Raleigh, NC
9 July 2012

2.  Later tonight or this week, read
over your responses on the Poll
Everywhere and the Wordle. They
will be posted on the NLI2012 wiki
(linked in the Monday “After Hours
Dabbling” section).
 Make Some Observations and
Share Them…
◦ What are some of the common themes
you notice?
◦ What other observations can you make?
◦ Use these as a reference point to build
upon over the week!
◦ Post your reflections to the NLI Group
on the NewLit.org Ning or Tweet them
and include #NLI2012
Common Themes / Observations?

3.  New Literacies have connections to technology, but
also to art, narrative, gaming, multimodality…
creating!
Connections…

4. Preamble, 1987; Mike Wilkins
They help us to represent ideas in
new and dynamic ways…

5. NLI Team’s New Literacies Wordle
http://www.wordle.net

6. NLI Team’s New Literacies Tagxedo
http://www.tagxedo.com/artful/785741dcd5704053

7. NLI Team’s New Literacies Glog
http://slingtunes.glogster.com/New-Literacies/

8. Share Your Thoughts in Progress
on New Literacies over the week!

9.  Carl Young
 NC State University
 carl_young@ncsu.edu
Raleigh, NC
July 9-13, 2012
Thanks!