Digital Discourse offers a distinctly sociolinguistic perspective on the nature of language in digital technologies. It starts by simply bringing new media sociolinguistics up to date, addressing current technologies like instant messaging, textmessaging, blogging, photo-sharing, mobile phones, gaming, social network sites, and video sharing. Chapters cover a range of communicative contexts (journalism, gaming, tourism, leisure, performance, public debate), communicators (professional and lay, young people and adults, intimates and groups), and languages (Irish, Hebrew, Chinese, Finnish, Japanese, German, Greek, Arabic, and French).
The tropical rain forest is one of the most complex ecosystems on earth and needs to be protected. This is the flipbook version of the True Book with page-turning and read-along features, chapter tabs, and vocabulary terms indentified and defined. The 'book' has been transformed into a versatile digital resource enabling the student to exercise the non-linear reading and viewing behaviors that are known to take place with digital content. It also allows students to graduate from 'learning to read' to 'reading to learn' and master content area knowledge in science and social studies. Reading Level: Grades 3 - 5
For 30 years, Tech & Learning has served the K-12 education community with practical resources and expert strategies for transforming education through integration of digital technologies. Tech & Learning is often used as a professional development tool to help educators across the board get up to speed with the newest technologies and products in order to best prepare students for the global digital workforce.
A flipbook version of the True Book with page-turning and read-along features (embedded AUDIO in each flash book), chapter tabs, and vocabulary terms indentified and defined. The “book” has been transformed into a versatile digital resource enabling the student to exercise the non-linear reading and viewing behaviors that we know take place with digital content.
