Literacy in Blogs

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Literacy through Blogs

To the extent that we are using text only in our blogs, we are
encouraging the virtues of text literacy. Perhaps this includes abilities
to deal with the abstract, reflection on cause- effect relationships, and
the importance of symbols. Granted, "texting" can lead to a different
kind of printed langualge that debases these advantages. But blogs are
not "texting".

When we replace text with audio or video, we still attend to literacy, but
change to modality.

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Does the addition of font changes, or font
colour, change the content of the text in printed form? How might
these two changes be shown in auditory readings?

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It could be argued that intentional limitation of text possibilities
compels greater creativity in communication. On the other hand, there is
nothing wrong with form being more important than content.

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This was composed on, & posted from a

Commodore
64

Appropriate Technology:
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ap721/main1.html