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  This is the online home of Martin Waller/ @MultiMartin/ @MisterWaller. I hope it becomes a space for reflection on the shifting nature of a world with constantly changing horizons and what it means for education.

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  • A Developing Storm - Response to the axing of the new primary curriculum
  • Creating Space for Critical Literacy - Reflections on the critical literacy project I designed to explore racial predjudice through the Uncle Remus stories
  • Injecting SATs with a strong dose of popular culture - How our SATs week was transformed into a High School Musical themed week
  • Learning to Tweet or Tweeting to Learn - Initial blog post about using Twitter in the primary classroom
  • New Literacy Studies 1 - Blog post where I explore NLS and the idea of ‘simulated literacy events’

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  • Dissertation - Exploring the effects of multimodality on writing. Winner of UKLA Dissertation award.
  • ESRC Paper - ‘A fixed point in time and pedagogy’ presented at the ESRC Virtual Worlds seminar series.
  • Multiliteracies Paper - Presented at 45th UKLA Conference ‘Building literate communities’ at University of Greenwich, July 2009.
  • Using Twitter in the Primary Classroom - My article about @ClassroomTweets, which was published in English 4-11.

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