Presentation from the Silverstone Blogging Masterclass Conference held on the 7th December 2011.

1. Key Skills in Digital Literacy
Bill Lord
www.lordlit.com
@Joga5
Bill Lord @joga5
www.lordlit.com

2. Definitions
Digital literacy is the ability to
locate, organize, understand, evaluate, an
d analyze information using digital
technology.
It involves a working knowledge of current
high-technology, and an understanding of
how it can be used.

3. Definitions
Multiliteracies (New London Group.)
• The world is becoming smaller,
communication between other
cultures/languages is necessary to anyone.
The usage of the English language is also
being changed.
• The second way to incorporate the term
multiliteracies is the way technology and
multimedia is changing how we
communicate.

4. “something as simple as fun is the
easiest way to change people’s
behaviour for the better”
Bill Lord @joga5
www.lordlit.com

5. This slide was a call back to the 1990s when we all had Paul Johnson’s How to Make
Books in Primary schools and used them to get children writing. The issue was that, all
too often, the quality of the books outweighed the quality of the writing contained in
them.

6. •Children need to have writing modelled to them (on paper or electronically)
•Children need to, at times and where appropriate, feel uncomfortable about the writing
process BUT TO FEEL SUPPORTED AT ALL TIMES
The Writing Commandments
Bill Lord @joga5
www.lordlit.com

7. Key Questions
• What do you want from blogging?
– What do you perceive as the benefits for the
children in your class?
– What will be the focus of your blog?
• Diary
• Collection of work
• Entirely text based?
• Using Web 2.0 materials

8. Potential unrecognised….
School Reports
• Tolstoy: “Both unable and unwilling to
learn.”
• Louis Pasteur: “A mediocre pupil in his
baccalaureate.”
• Roald Dahl: English composition. “The boy
is an indolent and illiterate member of the
class.”

9. The teaching of writing
Making explicit the
internal
conversation
which takes place
in a writer’s mind.

11. Teaching how to write on a blog
• Which skills are needed?
– Oracy
– Planning
– Drafting
– Editing
– Reviewing

12. Reading blogs
• Modelling
• Timing
• Maintaining

13. Commenting on blogs
• Who comments?
• What is the language of comment?
– Is there a meta-language?

14. The able writer may…….
• Possess a strong awareness of audience
• Show an interest in the craft of writing
• Be capable of writing at length while maintaining
a sense of audience, purpose and organisation
• Write in original ways and experiment with styles
• Summarise succinctly
• Show a dislike of repetition and closed tasks
• Apply reading experiences to writing tasks

16. Vocabulary choices
• How do you develop
• Fluffy girls versus non-descriptive boys

18. Training backwards

19. Some success stories

31. Book Reviews
Bill Lord @joga5
www.lordlit.com

33. Removing Barriers to Literacy
• Expectations
• Speaking and listening
• Sequence, sequence, sequence