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AILA 2008 – Day 6

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Today is the last day of the conference and many of the participants are already rushing to the airport to fly back home. I decided to stay and leave on Saturday. I had the chance to listen to the last keynote speaker, Rita Franceschini, from the Free University of Bozen, in Italy. She talked about [...]

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AILA 2008 – Day 5

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David Barton‘s presentation on multilingual literacy practices on Flickr was very interesting and the crowded room was not disappointed. He showed how multimodal elements are an essential part of new literacy practices, especially by multilingual users of Web 2.0 and Flickr, an online photo (and now video) management and sharing application. David showed the case [...]

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