1. Setting the Scene: Literacy and New Literacies
Lesson One
Setting the Scene: Literacy and New Literacies

2. Objectives By the end of the lesson, you should be able to:
Explore the meaning of the concept of literacy and its development in the context of history and human civilization;
Write, in your own words, your definitions of "Web-based new literacies";
Recognise different examples of those Web-based new literacies that you need in the 21st century;
Use Google definitions and Wikipedia on an ad-hoc basis to fulfil direct learning needs.

3. Task Five (Assignment-Online mode only)
Use Google definitions and Wikipedia at home to get definitions for terms related to your TEFL Methodology course that you study this semester (e.g., Teaching English as a Foreign Language or TEFL/TESOL, language teaching methods and approaches).
Write in your online diaries how useful the service was and the new things, concepts, and/or ideas you have learned.