Introduction

=Introduction=

This is my e-portfolio for the MATSL Digital Literacies and Technology course. My purpose in assembling this portfolio is to show evidence of my movement toward True North. True North, according to the course syllabus is:

//Full participation in and on communities of thinkers at multiple levels; that is, producing, shaping, conceptualizing, and transforming practices constituting communities of thinkers at multiple levels: individual, group, classroom, cohort, college, and where possible, beyond. Emphasis is on thinking and rethinking the role of technologies, digital and otherwise, in foreign language education, conceived of as fundamentally concerned with language learning as a literate, communicative and languacultural phenomenon.//

====On the left sidebar of this wiki are links to different pages in which I show artifacts as evidence of my travel toward this True North. At the beginning of this course, I was probably seeing lots of snow, but that was because I was in Antarctica. Through this course in which we dialogued about digital literacy, languaculture, affordances and constraints of technology in a foreign language classroom, communities of thinkers, among many other related topics, I moved further and further north by participating in the community of thinkers within the classroom and the MATSL program these three weeks. I did this through the various social media we used inside and outside of the classroom, dialogue with my colleagues about the themes presented and discussed both inside and outside of the classroom, and dialoguing with various theories and experts in the field. Now, as the course has drawn to a close, I understand that there is still much that I do not understand about languaculture, classroom discourse and technology, but I have begun to understand how all three can create communities of thinkers in a foreign language classroom and after this summer here at MATSL I will attempt to create such communities in my classes at home.====