Words, wrds, wdzWhat is the

digital environment doing to our language?

Melanie HughesAIS NSW

What’s happening to our language?

• New forms of language • New text types• Blurring of medium,

purpose and audience• Neologisms

Neologisms..• Pop Culture– Google (noun, verb)– McMansion– #Fail

• Nictionary Nicki Minaj– barbs

• Advertisers– Upsize– Post-it– Tupperware

Meme

gone viral#hashtag

Cell Phone Novels

Twitter fiction/ Twitterature

Nano fiction/ Micro fiction

*7 word (or less) Title*a setting*one or more characters*conflict*resolution *no more than 55 words long

Hint fictionCURETriumphant, Dr Masuyo held the frail child. After years, he finally had a cure. Outside, the sun warmed Hiroshima. And then he saw the flash.

by: Kevin Hosey

Thx 4 ListninL8r peeps!

Melanie HughesEducation Consultant – Technology across the curriculumAIS NSW

Phone: 92992845Email: mhughes@aisnsw.edu.auTwitter: @melanieh

What impacts can you alert your students to?

Which do you see as being

most important?

Purpose, audience and content….

• Purpose • Content• Audience

• Imaginative• Persuasive • Informative

Social Media and Persuasive Text

Workplace Texts

Social meets workplaceblurry boundaries….