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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Mavers, Diane – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2009
Semiotic work is principled engagement in the making of meaning. The semiotic work of school-based learning entails interpretation and expression framed by the curriculum and the social practices of the classroom, and realized multimodally in diverse pedagogic interactions and activities. Micro-examination of the relationship between a teacher's…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Teaching Methods, Class Activities, Visual Aids
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Mavers, Diane – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2007
Children's resourcefulness can be seen in their ordinary, everyday "semiotic work" as they select resources from those ready to hand to create play environments and artefacts. Is this resourcefulness also evident as they make meaning in the highly conventionalized mode of writing? Conceptualizing writing as a process of design opens up the…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Semiotics, Design, Computer Mediated Communication