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Words, wrds, wdz

Melanie Hughes AIS NSW. Words, wrds, wdz. What is the digital environment doing to our language?. What’s happening to our language?. New forms of language New text types Blurring of medium, purpose and audience Neologisms. Neologisms. Pop Culture Google (noun, verb) McMansion

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Words, wrds, wdz

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  1. Melanie Hughes AIS NSW Words, wrds, wdz What is the digital environment doing to our language?

  2. What’s happening to our language? • New forms of language • New text types • Blurring of medium, purpose and audience • Neologisms

  3. Neologisms.. • Pop Culture • Google (noun, verb) • McMansion • #Fail • Nictionary Nicki Minaj • barbs • Advertisers • Upsize • Post-it • Tupperware

  4. gone viral #hashtag Meme

  5. Cell Phone Novels

  6. Twitter fiction/ Twitterature

  7. Nano fiction/ Micro fiction *7 word (or less) Title *a setting *one or more characters *conflict *resolution *no more than 55 words long

  8. Hint fiction CURETriumphant, Dr Masuyo held the frail child. After years, he finally had a cure. Outside, the sun warmed Hiroshima. And then he saw the flash.by: Kevin Hosey

  9. Thx 4 ListninL8r peeps! Melanie Hughes Education Consultant – Technology across the curriculum AIS NSW Phone: 92992845 Email: mhughes@aisnsw.edu.au Twitter: @melanieh

  10. What impacts can you alert your students to? Which do you see as being most important?

  11. Purpose, audience and content…. • Purpose • Content • Audience • Imaginative • Persuasive • Informative

  12. Social Media and Persuasive Text

  13. Workplace Texts

  14. Social meets workplaceblurry boundaries….

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