When people design things they reflect them selves or some one close to them. When some one designs something that has never been done before this becomes oringinal. People then can take this deisgn and re use it or maybe adapt it to fit the purpose it is needed for. People tend to think that this is copying but it may not be. For example if some one takes and uses some ones video of you tube and uses it to display on their bebo page they have taken it and re used it in their own design. Although they may not have changed it at all they have made a new purpose for it which was different from the oringinal. Ericka Williams dicusses in her paper Unlearning that we need to unlearn our selves from this way of thinking. To view more on her what Ericka has to say about unlearning visit; http://www.jld.qut.edu.au/-

When children are of at a young age they before writing they draw pictures to show meanning, as they can not yet comprehend words. A two year old for example might draw a funny shape circle with three dots representing their eyes and nose. Normally to represent their arms and legs children will use sticks. This picture will rerpresent them and most commonly their closet kin. When students reach a certain age they will start to use I and me and move away from drawings and the alphabet cultural code will start to become accepted. The child needs to keep thinking back to designing and creating, as design has meaning to the invidual and is used for representation of things.

Literacy and design and are co- in sided togther. We need to teach our children about the rules, codes and exsisting ideas and ask them questions to get them crtically thinking about it this is the passive side of things. On the other side it active, children need to me taught how to adapt, become creative and the big mian one is re use a design to make it meaning and ourposeful to them by adding elements that reflect them.

Does bebo have the effect to enhance childrens design skills

In our group of four we choose to do the topic BEBO. We thought that this would be an exciting topic to research as it is getting more and more popular in society with children especially. We found that bebo has many components, theres were things such as communication, media skill, community of learners and design. I choose to look into the design components and how this could enhance students learning.

Through researching on the internet i came upon a question which was; What kinds of literacies does blogging enhance? This is a fantastic question as it enables pople to think that yes there are postive outcomes from creating a blog such as bebo. In answer to this question I found that by using blogging it can enhance stronger skills in visual literacy [and] media literacy, for starters. Changes in reading and writing—not just the texting phenomenon, but fluency rates, information sorting, and evaluating happen, too. This are many postive attibutes to blogging that can have a postive effect to students learning within their learning.

I looked further into the design concept and by having stduents learn how to build a blog it teaches them necessary design and conceptual abilities that can transfer to art, photography, graphic design, writing, and other contemporary information-manipulation strategies. Blog building also helps students understand how technology works from the ground up. This is important in todays society as we are becoming a more technology literate society. Students need to become aware of the new ways in which to share their creativity with using bebo students are able to use things such as choosing a colour scheme to display their blogs on, decide on the layout, learn how to drew by using paint brush. Within bebo students are able to choose their own skins, layout, able to drew and leave on other poeples whiteboard, which shows poeples design skills and once used more than once students "tacit" knowledge this also applys for the other design components.