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Words, wrds, wdzWhat is the
digital environment doing to our language?
Melanie HughesAIS NSW
What’s happening to our language?
• New forms of language • New text types• Blurring of medium,
purpose and audience• Neologisms
Neologisms..• Pop Culture– Google (noun, verb)– McMansion– #Fail
• Nictionary Nicki Minaj– barbs
• Advertisers– Upsize– Post-it– Tupperware
Meme
gone viral#hashtag
Cell Phone Novels
Twitter fiction/ Twitterature
Nano fiction/ Micro fiction
*7 word (or less) Title*a setting*one or more characters*conflict*resolution *no more than 55 words long
Hint fictionCURETriumphant, Dr Masuyo held the frail child. After years, he finally had a cure. Outside, the sun warmed Hiroshima. And then he saw the flash.
by: Kevin Hosey
Thx 4 ListninL8r peeps!
Melanie HughesEducation Consultant – Technology across the curriculumAIS NSW
Phone: 92992845Email: [email protected]: @melanieh
What impacts can you alert your students to?
Which do you see as being
most important?
Purpose, audience and content….
• Purpose • Content• Audience
• Imaginative• Persuasive • Informative
Social Media and Persuasive Text
Workplace Texts
Social meets workplaceblurry boundaries….