Using digital literacies to promote

educational collaboration

of consumption & production

among JAAL Users Margaret C. Hagood & Emily N. Skinner

Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Co-Editors College of Charleston

• Explore stances toward change associated with digital tools and motivations for using digital learning

• Apply stances and motivations to our goals as editors

• Describe how we use stances and digital literacies to enhance JAAL users’ consumption and production of literacy research using various tools and communicative venues

• Provide examples of using digital tools to broaden the conversation with JAAL users

In this session:

The Croods Neanderthal family who live in a cave

and emerge only to hunt for food

Grug: patriarch who lives by tradition in order to survive. Mantra: “Anything new is bad!” “Never not be afraid”

Eep: Eldest of three children who hates the cave and longs to explore new things.

Thunk: Only son who wants to obey father. “I will never do anything new or different.”

Guy: nomad whose inventive spirit and creative problem solving help him adapt

12 Types of Motivation for Using Digital Media COOL TOOLS AND HOT TOPICS: Techies: Stay abreast of new tools and apps for classroom use Trendsetters: Know about mass media & pop culture and want to connect to students’ lives

PARTICIPATION ONLINE AND IN THE WORLD: Activists: Encourage democratic engagement in school, community, & world Teacher 2.0s: Unlock potential of students’ social engagement online

DEVELOPING STUDENT VOICE: Motivators: Use pop culture to connect to student creativity Spirit Guides: Connect to developmental and socio-emotional concerns related to media and identity

EXPLORING CULTURE AND VALUES: Taste-makers: Concerned with production & consumption of high quality media including literary, film, and other media canons Alts: Question mainstream texts to include other sub- or counter-cultural perspectives

UNDERSTANDING MEDIA SYSTEMS: Demystifiers: “Pull back the curtain” Watchdogs: Ask questions about money and balance between private gain and public good

CONTENT AND FORM: Professors: Connect media & technology to content standards Professionals: Promote teaching skills to create high quality media texts

Who are you?

Hobbs, R. & Moore, D.C. Digital Learning Horoscope. Powerful Voices for Kids. http://quiz.powerfulvoicesforkids.com/

Our goals for JAAL

●  Demonstrating a balance of theory, research, and practice ●  Connecting stakeholders in rich, multi-voiced perspectives across

the world: teachers, adolescent and adult learners, researchers, teacher educators, media specialists/librarians, policy makers

●  Increasing JAAL users’ consumption and production of texts ●  Embracing and utilizing an expanded definition of text and a

multifaceted view of literacy, including reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and designing

Digital technologies

In-house collaboration: ●  Google Drive collaboration between editors for planning

of journal volume, issue, and individual adjudication of manuscripts

●  Use of Goodnotes to provide annotationed feedback on accepted manuscripts with authors with detailed feedback

Multimodal elements ●  Multimodal data:

o  Inclusion of video and audio data that moves beyond print-based data to support printed article that highlights multimodal artifacts in research study

●  Feature articles: “More to Explore”:

o  Inclusion of websites and relevant links to content to enhance related resources

●  Podcast interviews with feature article authors:

o  Summative trailers of content

o  Open access to all

o  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jaal.2014.57.issue-8/issuetoc

o  http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1936-2706

Connecting digital literacies to editorial work: Building on Social Networking

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Journal-of-Adolescent-Adult-Literacy/235013803238408 •Built community, moving away from audience reception of content to active participation •Inclusivity of stakeholders via open access for non-journal subscribers •Monitoring and posting •Addition of high-use FB user as content administrator to JAAL FB page: Peggy Semingson

Meeting of the Minds column: •Connects online community with print community

•Created a new departmental editor to choose the content

Next Steps for Collaboration & Conversation via Social Networking and Media

JAAL department editors/community collaboration: Ian O’Byrne, Victoria Gillis, Raul Mora, Jen Scott Curwood, James

Blasingame, Stergios Botzakis, Marcelle Haddix ●  Team up as department editors, connect through social network

technologies, engage JAAL users: encourage dialogue and discussion ●  Google Hangouts created by and facilitated by departmental editors on

column topic including invited panel of experts/stakeholders ●  Record and post on YouTube ●  Conversational follow up on Twitter with expert panel and JAAL users

facilitated by departmental editors

Return to The Croods

Importance of community, risk taking, trust, and collaboration