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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59604773783679470792011-04-21T20:59:31.732-06:00Danny's Paradise FoundDanny's Paradise Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902833257815457656noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960477378367947079.post-77703710479199683632007-05-10T14:35:00.000-06:002007-05-10T14:44:48.022-06:00Analysis of All About Lily Chou Chou (Final)

To address this question, I center my attention on the movie “All About Lily Chou Chou” that portrays how a Japanese high-schooler, Yuichi Hasumi, takes refuge in the ethereal music the pop star, Lily Chou Chou, makes when experiencing growing pains from bully, ridicule, and abuse at school . Drawing on the readings revolving around the new literacies characterized by multimodality and social

Danny's Paradise Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902833257815457656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960477378367947079.post-55753689398757129412007-04-29T22:20:00.000-06:002007-05-05T16:46:12.212-06:00Blogging as Participation

Writing in 2006 and capitalizing on weblogging participation, Lankshear and Knobel distinguished between “participation that is directed to particular or specified others, participation that is directed toward a larger community, and participation that is directed at both.”(p.5) And to illustrate the first type of participation, they cited the post and ensued comments talking about a UK Education

Danny's Paradise Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902833257815457656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960477378367947079.post-65788573025743501512007-04-23T21:41:00.000-06:002007-04-25T00:41:48.462-06:00Participatory Culture

As noted by Jenkins (2006), a participatory culture is defined as “a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, strong support for creating and sharing one’s creations, and some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices.” (p.3) This concept aptly underlies the assessment tool we talked about in class

Danny's Paradise Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902833257815457656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960477378367947079.post-7902549002459316872007-04-16T08:18:00.000-06:002007-04-16T10:53:26.785-06:00Multimodalities

In Siegel’s (2006) article, semiotics is defined as “a broad field of studies that looks at meanings and messages in all their forms and all their contexts.” (p.68) That is, it gives the same weights to all sign systems, be it languages, codes, symbols, pictures, gestures, and so forth. This discipline somehow pinpoints the importance of taking into account multimodality when it comes to literacy

Danny's Paradise Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902833257815457656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960477378367947079.post-31122234264480389242007-04-02T00:27:00.000-06:002007-04-02T10:14:35.906-06:00PowerPoint and Its Power to Point

As Adams (2006) put it, PowerPoint users might come to develop certain ways of doing things and patterns of behaviors and thinking, namely, becoming habituated with this software (p.394). This proposition somehow spells out my expectations for conference presentations; that is, they must be PowerPoint-enhanced. Ever since PowerPoint came into the picture, a number of the speakers in conferences

Danny's Paradise Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902833257815457656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960477378367947079.post-35626829747215950882007-03-25T16:10:00.000-06:002007-03-25T16:20:59.357-06:00TV Programs as Smartness Boosters

It never occurred to me that dramas and reality programs could also function to make viewers smarter. I used to think of news programs as the only programs on TV capable of doing so, due to the fact that news programs would impose cognitive demands on viewers by acquainting them with the up-to-date events and in turn engaging them in the analysis and reflection of these events as they relate to

Danny's Paradise Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902833257815457656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960477378367947079.post-32278914732022220062007-03-18T13:46:00.000-06:002007-03-19T01:59:23.770-06:00Copyrights Getting in the Way of Creation?

I.Lessig (2003) argues that the advent of the Internet led to the expansion of the reach of copyright, resulting in a devastating effect for the environment for creativity (p.130). As he puts it, the possible uses of copyrighted works distinguish among 3 categories: unregulated uses, related uses, and regulated uses deemed fair, or interchangeably fair uses. And since the Internet came into the

Danny's Paradise Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902833257815457656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960477378367947079.post-11815155043728575922007-02-27T02:02:00.000-06:002007-02-28T22:18:53.895-06:00Tools and Literacy

I.The picture that popped up in my head when I set eyes on the notion of pivot developed by Vygotsky was the one of adults learning to function socially somehow at the expense of creativity. As noted by Dr. Bomer, children tended to be creative and as such pivot meanings to tools in a number of different ways depending on their prior contacts with the tools. And the teachers usually would go out

Danny's Paradise Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902833257815457656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960477378367947079.post-48220472282403092412007-02-19T01:05:00.000-06:002007-02-19T01:10:21.463-06:00Reflection on Olson Ch 6-12

As Olson (1994) noted, interpreting the oral or written utterances both involves the management of 3 basic linguistic structures, that is, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. While syntax specifies how words relate to one another, semantics touches on how subjects and referents are co-indexed and pragmatics centers on how the speaker or writer intends the discourse to be taken. And as he went on

Danny's Paradise Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902833257815457656noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960477378367947079.post-40434827720371904772007-02-11T23:39:00.000-06:002007-02-11T23:44:00.041-06:00Reflection on Olson Ch 1-5 (2)

As noted by Olson (1994), Vygotsky and Luria (1976) conducted a series of psychological studies in attempts to bring to light the strategies 3 groups of participants with varying literacy skills employed to deal with formal reasoning tasks (syllogisms). And they revealed that non-literate participants tended to respond to these tasks either by not drawing any inference when they knew nothing

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Olson (1994), when delineating the history of thinking, brought about the idea of primitive thinking indicative of the first age or stage of mankind. He cited metonymy as one of its major features. That is, primitive thinking does not differentiate between signifiers and signified and as such embraces the belief that signifiers (representation) carry some of the properties of the signified (

Danny's Paradise Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902833257815457656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960477378367947079.post-37371096602073859142007-02-04T22:43:00.000-06:002007-02-17T11:20:38.863-06:00Reflections on Telling Jokes

For this homework assignment, I picked 3 jokes from a book I bought in Taiwan, remembered them by heart, and “performed” them in front of 3 Taiwanese friends and 1 American friend of mine. To quote the ideas put forth by Bauman and Briggs (1990), I somehow entextualized the jokes from the old settings where they occurred (the book) and then reconstructed them in the interactions I shared with my

Danny's Paradise Foundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09902833257815457656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5960477378367947079.post-2918138198565170052007-01-24T12:18:00.000-06:002007-01-24T12:36:04.064-06:00Conversation Assignment

I. Introduction of the ConversationThis conversation between Shahla and me took place after we had our first class for the course “Research and Writing Methods II” on January 23rd. Shahla is also a first-year PhD student in Foreign Language Education. We were chatting about the classes we’re taking this semester. And Shahla expressed interests in having my notes to help with her endeavors in

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