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Dr Julia Gillen
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Research Activities
Current Research Activities
Children's and young people's digital literacies in virtual online spaces
Previous Research Activities
BBC News Schools Report 2008-2009
Discourse of the School Dinners Debate
Interactive whiteboards as pedagogic tools in primary classrooms
Eprints Publications Repository and Bibliographic Database
Julia Gillen has 10 selected publication records listed on this webpage.
Forthcoming Events
Twitter and Microblogging: Political, Professional and Personal Practices, 10 April 2013-12 April 2013
Previous Events
LRDG seminar: The discourses of a virtual island: the Schome-NAGTY 'Teen Second Life' project. Julia Gillen, Lancaster University, 16 October 2007
LRDG seminar: A revolutionary moment in informal, near-synchronous, multimodal writing practices: the Edwardian postcard, 5 February 2008
Second Life Open Meeting, 25 February 2008
Introduction to Second Life for educators (demonstration & discussion), 1 April 2008
BAAL Linguistic Ethnography Forum: 'ethnographies of literacy: an Anglo-French dialogue', 8 May 2008
TLRP-TEL digital literacies workshop, 12 March 2009
Introduction to Second Life, 13 January 2010
Postcard Fair, 13 November 2010
Discussion of the Government's plans for a new phonics test for 6-year-olds, 18 January 2011
Revisiting speech vs. writing in the age of the Internet: Literacy Research Discussion Group, 8 February 2011
Literacy History: Pushing the Disciplinary Boundaries, 7 March 2011
Literacy Research Discussion Group: Visuals in cookbooks: Jamie Oliver and recent transformations, 10 May 2011
Literacy Research Discussion Group: Competing Discourses Embedded in a Dyslexic Child's Story Writing, 31 May 2011
Paper discussion session: From variation to heteroglossia in the study of computer-mediated discourse, 14 June 2011
LRDG: The discursive performance of self in social network sites, 28 June 2011
LAEL raffle in aid of Oxfam, 25 January 2012
Enriching early childhood literacy curricula and practice - a dialogue with Canada. One day conference., 7 May 2012
LRDG - Learning at the ends of life: Multimodality and identity in an intergenerational art program, 8 May 2012
News
Julia Gillen contribution in eLearning Papers, 2 July 2009
Edwardian Postcard Twitters, 21 August 2009
New research briefing on Digital Literacies published, 1 February 2010
The new school in the media age, 17 March 2010
AERA presentations, 4 May 2010
Julia Gillen presenting at New Media Consortium, Anaheim, 11 June 2010
Ruby Chen's PhD!, 1 February 2011
Literacy Research Centre's response to the DfE's Year 1 Phonics Screening Check consultation, 2 February 2011
Starting October 2012: New MA in Digital Language and Literacies, 1 December 2011
Julia Gillen writes for the Daily Mirror about Waterstone's, 13 January 2012
LRC special issue of Language and Education out!, 17 February 2012
Keywords
Children, Culture, Digital technologies, Discourse analysis, Distributed cognition, Informal learning, Informal orthographic practices, Interactive whiteboard, Interdisciplinary, Language, Language education, Linguistic ethnography, Literacy, Literacy learning, Technology enhanced learning, Virtual worlds
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