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Month: August 2007

Change of supervisor

Stewart Martin

I’ve just found out via a mass-mailing that my current Ed.D. supervisor, Stewart Martin, is leaving the University of Durham next month to become Principal Lecturer in Education in the School of Social Sciences and Law at Teesside University. I’m obviously pleased for him, but it kind of forces me to do what I was thinking of doing on the basis of a rash decision anyway – i.e. change my supervisor.

I can now understand why he was a bit fuzzy about when to hand in my re-written thesis proposal…

Ilana Snyder

Ilana Snyder

A lot of the research I’ve been doing recently on the concept of ‘digital literacy’ either references Ilana Snyder or is in a book edited by her. Perhaps I need to get in touch, especially as according to her profile it appears she’s got a new book coming out in February 2008… 🙂

The notes I’ve made from Page to Screen: taking literacy into the electronic era (1998) and Silicon Literacies: communication, innovation and education in the electronic age (2002) can be found on my wiki.

Unfortunately, the libraries at both Durham and Sheffield universities do not stock Doing literacy online: Teaching, learning and playing in an electronic world (2004) and I’ll likely not be able to access The Literacy Wars when it comes out in February 2008… 🙁

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