The Department of Curriculum and Instruction is pleased to offer three courses in Spring 2023 designed to extend and expand the literacy graduate coursework available to the U of A community. Three award-winning faculty members, professors Faythe Beauchemin, Vicki Collet and Sean Connors, are offering distinct courses designed to expand and deepen the understanding and application of literacy practice, theory and qualitative research methodology.
Begin your spring semester with a Digital Storytelling Workshop (CIED 599V) with associate professor Sean Connors, offered in the evenings of the intersession. Given the relative ease with which people can use digital technologies to compose texts that combine spoken and written language with video, audio, animations and other modalities, defining literacy narrowly as the ability to encode and decode print text is no longer sufficient. However, in school, print remains the predominant mode through which students are expected to consume and create narratives, raising the question: "As educators, how can we reimagine the writing curriculum to support students' building skills and knowledge associated with non-traditional forms of composing?" To answer that question, this workshop immerses participants in making an assortment of digital stories in the context of a supportive and collaborative professional community.
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