Teacher Tube

Teacher Tube is a useful site for teachers and pre-service teachers. It contains videos, animations, lessons, resources and tips for teaching.
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Octopus Video

This video highlights the importance of teaching critical literacy skills to students and teachers. It used a hoax website about an made-up endangered tree octopus that many students believed was an authentic website containing all the information required to write an information report. The video acknowledged that in some countries, ICT and evaluating digital resources is taught in schools and teacher education courses. However, there is still a need for support for critical literacy skills in many skills both for teachers and students.

'New Literacies' - a definition

'New literacies' are recent forms of literacies that have been made available by technological advancements, particularly Web 2.0. Since Web 2.0, the Internet has focussed more on the sharing of information and ideas. This has allowed for such collaborative practices as podcasting, wiki sites, fanfiction, blogging, online chatting and social networking. The rules and procedures of these literacies allow for more flexibility, self-expression and communication throughout the world.