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 * The text below is the direct transcript of the video presentation: **

On behalf of Adele, Amanda, India, Mel and Rachel, I welcome you to our group wiki page. My name is Mark and I will be covering section five of the Group Wiki Presentation, which is New Literacy Practices. To start off this video will showcase the different styles of technologies we have witnessed within classrooms that help to enhance literacy programs. This includes the ways teachers use technology and how the students interact with them. And lastly we will look at the ways the early years learner interacts with technologies at home.

In this first clip you can see that an interactive white board is being used for written text. The teacher can very simply use a stylist or digital pen to hand write directly to the screen. The interactive white board can also be used for story telling, literacy games (played as a whole group or in small groups) and a list of online literacy games can be found on this wiki page. Students also use computers in the classroom; some classrooms will only cater for a small number of students while others, as India reports, will have individual computers for each student. It is important to note that some schools do provide computer labs for teachers and students to use technology as a whole class.

As Rachel notes in her early years profile assessment the child enjoys using computers at home, specifically the program Mathletics and also various non-literacy games for entertainment. Mel reports that the child enjoys more time with hand held devices and more movement with interaction with computer consuls like Wii. There are however greater uses for technology within the home environment for the development of literacy for an early years learner. In these clips you can see interaction with many different styles of literacy. Including word puzzles, story telling, literacy games and for some fun a bit of hang man.

We hope you have enjoyed learning about the different types and styles of technology used within the classroom and at home. We hope you too are inspired to find new ways to use technology to help enhance literacy programs.