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  • This video provides an overview of the ORCA assessment. *Note, there is no sound on the video.
  • Check out this video, powered by PowToon, for more information on New Literacties and Technology.

  • Don Leu, director of the New Literacies Research Lab at the University of Connecticut, discusses New Literacies in the video below.
  • Doug Belshaw discusses memes and other forms of digital literacies in this Ted Talk from 2012.

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