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Multimodality SIG
Convenor:
Lesley Lancaster

Website:
T.B.A.

 

CHANGING COMMUNICATION: NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THEIR IMPACT ON MEANING MAKING AND PEDAGOGY
Friday 26th November 2010
The Open University, Milton Keynes Walton Hall, Central Meeting Room 15

PROGRAMME
09:30–10:00       Tea/coffee & pastries  
10:00–11:00       Paul Luff (King’s College London): New Technologies and Workplace Studies  
11:00–12:00       Keri Facer (Manchester Metropolitan University): Educational Futures: Implications of Multimodality for Pedagogy
12:00–12:45       Lunch  
12:45–13:00       Summary of themes  
13:00–14:30       Parallel workshops:
                                      i.      Technology and the classroom (Di Mavers, Institute of Education, University of London)
                                     ii.      Workplace studies (Jeff Bezemer, Imperial College London)
                                     iii.      Multimodal texts (David Machin, Cardiff University)  
14:30–15:00       Plenary  
15:00–15:30       Carey Jewitt (IoE, University of London): Implications of New Technologies for Researching Educational Settings

REGISTRATION
Full fee (max. 30 places)       £45
Student fee (max. 5 places)   £30
The registration fee includes tea/coffee & pastries, lunch and tea/coffee.
Please send your registration to Julie Grayson (see details below), with a cheque made payable to THE OPEN UNIVERSITY. Please note that places will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.  

WORKSHOPS
Participants are advised to choose one or two workshops that they are particularly interested in and bring either or both of the following:
§  some data (own or other) related to the topic
§  questions and issues related to the topic

On registration, participants will be asked to let us know in order of preference which workshops they would like to attend.  

TRAVEL TO THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
For directions, see http://www3.open.ac.uk/contact/locations.aspx.  

CONTACT US
Julie Grayson Department of Language Stuart Hall Building, Level 1 Walton Hall Milton Keynes MK7 6AA j.grayson@open.ac.uk  

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN NOVEMBER!

BAAL Multimodality SIG Carmen Caldas-Coulthard,  Rosie Flewitt, Regine Hampel, Mirjam Hauck, and Lesley Lancaster