Wow, March has been like a lion for me all the time. Sorry for the lack of posts. At any rate, along with seeing New York City, I also saw some interesting sessions at CCCC 2007 last week. I will begin posting my notes and responses here with this session on methods courses. I thought [...]

Bonnie, Kevin, Tonya, Mary, and I are blogging at the “Using Technology to Tell Stories” blog. Thanks to Bonnie and Kevin for getting the ball rolling on this. We are focusing much of our attention on digital storytelling, but there are other threads evolving, too. So, check it out. Also, just to continue the read/write [...]

Notes from Ellin Keene’s “The Intricacies of the Mind” NOTE: Email her for PPT. Keene, one of the authors of Mosaic of Thought, began by promoting the new edition of the book that will be coming out in May. She has been the director of the Cornerstone Project for the past few years, focusing on [...]

Hi Bonnie and Tech Team Members: Thanks for linking to my post on comics — Rick amd Mitch are doing some great work on that for RCWP. It looks like you had a great meeting yesterday and I am glad to know that you are using Comic Life in your work. Good luck planning the [...]

Nobis and Cook: Connecting Comics and Essays Mitch Nobis and Rick Cook are teacher consultants from Red Cedar Writing Project, and presented a number of ways that they connect graphic novels and expository writing in their writing classes. They will also be presenting a similar session at Bright Ideas. Thinking about what comics are and [...]

Notes from Christopher Paul Curtis‘ Keynote These are partial notes, as I was taking lots of pictures at the beginning of the session. Curtis shared some stories about his youth and talked about how some younsters get the “Scarlett B” on their forehead and how he didn’t have one. One story that he shared was [...]

Doug Fisher’s “Improving Adolescent Literacy: Strategies at Work” Fisher outlined a program that he and teachers at their high school (he has been on loan from SDSU) use for literacy achievement. Some Foundations Reading time every day — practice makes permanent as it relates to SSR Rationale for choosing strategies: Is it research based? Is [...]

Jim Burke’s “Teaching: The First Ten Minutes” Presentation at MRA 2007 Jim Burke began by inviting participants to think about the actions that students must engage in to be successful in their core academic work. He then talked about how students need to continue a number of academic skills in classes that have traditionally not [...]

The past week or so has been crazy. Yes, busy crazy for me personally, for sure. But, I am talking about another kind of craziness. I am talking about the number of teachers that I have talked to who have been fighting filters, trying to get equipment to work, and generally trying to make meaningful [...]