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=Welcome to the Electric English Wiki!=

This Wiki's Purpose

 * To share ideas and strategies for the meaningful use of technology tools in high school English classrooms

This Wiki's Audience

 * Teachers of Stage 4, 5 & 6 English in NSW DET schools

This Wiki's Context

 * Within DET we have this year seen the deployment of the Interactive Classroom Project, the Digital Education Revolution (DER) Project and anticipate the imminent launch of the Learning Tools Project (filtered wikis & blogs). In the wider world we see the phenomenon of social media overtaking broadcast media, where even ABC TV runs YouTube video in evening news bulletins.

The Challenge
To start the ball rolling, watch the video (5 mins) at the link below and consider the following: How does your English classroom help students become effective communicators and critical audiences for these types of texts?
 * This video has 2.5 million hits a week
 * It is one of thousands of separate items which are shared through social networking sites every week
 * Content like this can be created, shared and discussed entirely outside traditional media.

[|danny macaskill]