COD 2012 - S421

New texts, new media: exploring innovative texts in the classroom

Secondary level language and literature teachers willing to integrate innovative texts, new media, visual and auditory literacies in their daily teaching.

1 sessions, start: 30-Jun

Course detail

Year: 2012
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Yael Hasbani, Ms. María Florencia Borrello MA
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 100.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 30 June 2012 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Facilitator/s

Yael Hasbani

Yael is a graduate English teacher from I.E.S.L.V "Juan Ramón Fernández", and a senior student at the Translation course in the same institution. She finished her specialization in English Literature II, focusing her dissertation on the Literature of Third Places. She holds a Postítulo de Especialización de Nivel Superior en Educación y TIC from Ministerio Nacional de Educación. She also holds a postgraduate diploma in English Literature from Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Ciclo de Licenciatura en Inglés. She has worked for more than 15 years teaching English at primary and secondary school institutions and as a course facilitator for professional development. She also worked at I.E.S.L.V "Juan Ramón Fernández” for 2 years as a Literature II teacher at Teacher Training College. She is currently a lecturer in the subjects Literatura Inglesa II and Taller de Metodologías de la Investigación, Ciclo de Licenciatura en Inglés, Universidad Nacional del Litoral.

María Florencia Borrello

María Florencia Borrello holds an MLitt/MA in Communication, Cultural Studies, Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages from the Universities of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Saint Andrews (Scotland), and Bergamo (Italy). She is also a graduate English teacher from the I.E.S.L.V. “Juan Ramón Fernández”, and holds a postgraduate diploma in English Literature and Linguistics from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (Ciclo de Licenciatura en Inglés). She has extensive experience as an EFL and ESP teacher at the University of Buenos Aires, School of Engineering, as an in-company trainer and as a workshop facilitator for professional development. She has also taught at both private and state schools, at various language institutes and has worked as a Spanish Teaching Assistant and Cultural Ambassador at Hiram College (USA). She has further specialized in Literature at the I.E.S.L.V. “Juan Ramón Fernández” and her main research interests lie in the fields of Postmodern Alter(ed)native Texts, Derridian Deconstruction and the Digital Humanities.
Secondary level language and literature teachers willing to integrate innovative texts, new media, visual and auditory literacies in their daily teaching.
The purpose of this presentation is to acquaint participants with forms of new writing (twitterature, altered texts, cut-up texts found poetry, erased poetry, blackout poetry, illuminated texts, visual writing, mash-up art) and new media (digital storytelling) so as to foster discussion on their response to different textual forms, both digital and in print.
- Recycled adaptations of canonical texts (altered texts, cut-up texts, found poetry, erased poetry, blackout poetry, illuminated texts, visual writing, mash-up art).
- Twitterature.
- Digital storytelling.
Hands-on practice workshop. During the session, participants will be introduced to the adaptations of several canonical texts, as well as other postmodern digital texts, and will be then asked to produce one of their own.
- Aciman, A. & Rensin, E. (2009) Twitterature. The World's Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less. London: Penguin.
- Bervin, J. (2004) Nets. Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse.
- Grahame-Smith, S. (2009) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Philadelphia: Quirk Productions, Inc.
- Holmes, J. (2008) The Ms of My Kin. Exeter: Shearsman Books.
- Hutcheon, L. (2006) A Theory of Adaptation. London & New York: Routledge.
- Jefferson, T. (1804) The Jefferson Bible of The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth. Boston: Beacon Press.
- Johnson, R (1977) Radi Os. Berkeley: Sand Dollar.
- Kleon, A. (2010) Newspaper Blackout. New York: Harper Perennial.
- Phillips, T. (1966) A Humument. London: The Tetrad Press Edition.
- Safran Foer, J. (2005) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
------------------ (2010) Tree of Codes. London: Visual Editions.
- Vonnegut, K. (1969) Slaughterhouse-Five. Croydon: Vintage.

Websites
Digi Tales. Available at: http://www.digi-tales.org.uk/blog/
Center for Digital Story Telling. Available at: http://www.storycenter.org
Digital Storytelling. A Collection of Sites. Available at:http://electronicportfolios.com/digistory/
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