Wk3 Reading Comments to Christina

"In looking at the 6 Trends described, I am familiar with the need for change and there is yet another new trend to add. With new innovations in technology comes new ways to use technological resources. V-Books are the newest trend in online learning. Video books or V-books are snippets of videos strategically place in the reading to enhance learning. Retreive Rechnology has a site which explains why and how to use video books and it also has a small inventory for online learning and it has inventory for v-books (see below). The information from Clay Shirky "It’s all about the transformation of media in the age of Everybody, and it’s focusing on a subject very dear to our heart – oldteevee vs. newteevee" clearly addresses the possibility of mass popularity."

Interesting post, Christina. I am not sure how I feel about embracing technology like v-books. Sometimes I think we may be going overboard in trying to use new technologies to get kids to become engaged. When do they stop becoming tools and start becoming gimmicks? With something like v-books, I would be afraid that students would learn to depend on them and gradually lose literacy skills that have been difficult to develop. Although there is a place for new media literacies, we cannot forget about traditional literacy.