Following the successful launch of our new book Evolving Pedagogies: Reading and writing in a multimodal world  at the World Congress on Reading in Auckland in 2010 where we conducted two very full and well received workshops, 2011 has been a busy year.

So far, just some of the highlights of 2011 have been:

1. We have continued to work at several schools in Melbourne on developing leadership, change management and developing appropriate pedagogies for new literacies, in particular, multimodal texts. You can read two short articles about one of these projects at Gilson College, one written by us and another by Sandra England with input from the staff at the school at:

http://www.curriculum.edu.au/leader/vol9_no12,33282.html?issueID=12407

2. We conducted a full day of professional development on using children's literature, particularly postmodern picture books,  in the literature strand of the new  Australian Curriculum English for ISV in Melbourne

3. We have been writing the teacher course for the STEPS Viewing materials which has involved travel to Perth and very stimulating and exciting discussion with the STEPS team.

4. July sees us off to Melbourne again for the ALEA National Conference where we will present two workshops, one focussing on the use of children's literature to introduce Viewing skills and another on the processes and knowledge used when designing and creating a multimodal text.

5. We will be assisting STEPS with  trialling of the new STEPS Viewing course in Brisbane and Perth later this year .