Lets Get Digital: Play

Here I am then, for the last time in split personality role as Digigran/digitalplayer. I think it will be brilliant to have a series of blogs from a young games player giving us examples of what makes for exciting play. It has been great fun learning how to manage this posting business and there is still much left for me to mistress yet- particularly in relation to visual representationlia's facility with the camera. LOOK. I shall, however, now confine my own narcissistic displays to my Digigran site which I will separate out from our research BLOG with Julia's help on Tuesday pm. Meanwhile, if you have not yet connected to the other digitalplayers' individual space you may want to check out Guy's reflections on Blogging here (Please remind me, Guy, why My Vedana? )and Victoria's tracking of playful spaces here with the accompanying brilliant idea from MaryPlain that the ESRC` group should engage in something playful together next meeting and work from a particular practice to theorising about play. I know for all its demands this BLOGGING has engaged me playfully and I am motivated to do more simply by that pleasure. My own play tends to focus on words and meaning- but that's a product of my education, n'est-ce-pas?
Following through the academic purposes that are also the brief for this spot, before i bow out, the latest issue of Literacy has contributions from our members.These include Rebekah's account of Baddies in the classroom and Victoria's review of Kress's new text, Literacy in the New media Age(essential reading)Check it out.


There is also an article from Cathy Burnett and Jeff Wilkinson contrasting children's use of the Internet at home and in schhool.
My alter ego, Digigran, will return in another space- I'm just having trouble working out a suitable super-hero kit for her. None of the existing stuff looks suitably thermal for the time of year.
Perhaps it means an extended on-line visit to here.