English Teaching & New Literacies Pedagogy ─ Interpreting and Authoring Digital Multimedia Narratives

This work guide for new and experienced English teachers explains why and how to change pedagogical practice to incorporate new forms of digital multimedia narratives and to help primary and secondary students become multimedia authors. The use of works such as Inanimate Alice and a virtual Macbeth are explored. Other subjects include using contemporary picture books to explore the concept of intermodal complementarity, enabling students to be effective multimodal authors, and empowering older adolescents as authors with multimodal versions of literary narratives. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Len Unsworth is Professor in English and Literacies Education at the Australian Catholic University in Sydney. He completed his PhD in applied linguistics at the University of Sydney. His related books include e-Literature for Children and Reading Visual Narratives (with Clare Painter and J. R. Martin).
Angela Thomas is a senior lecturer in English education at the University of Tasmania. She completed her PhD at Charles Darwin University. Her books include Youth Online: Identity and Literacy in the Digital Age and Children’s Literature and Computer-Based Teaching, which she co-authored.