Digital Writing, Digital Teaching

Integrating New Literacies into the Teaching of Writing

Browsing Posts published in May, 2007

It has been a long day of travel from East Lansing to Chicago and now a bit further north to Lake Forest, where the CEE Leadership and Policy Summit begins in just a few minutes. Just a few quick thoughts on last night’s Teachers Teaching Teachers and what I will be doing for the next [...]

Please join Teachers Teaching Teachers for a special show this Wednesday. Our guest hosts will be Troy Hicks and Dawn Reed from the Red Cedar Writing Project! As podcasting has become a part of our language arts classes, we have seen firsthand the ways in which it gives students an audience for their work. By [...]

Earlier today, an RCWP colleague – Marcia – invited me to lunch to celebrate my graduation. She also brought me a unique gift: a collection of four books ranging in copyright date from 1888 – 1918, all a part of her personal collection of antique educational artifacts. There is a guide to the district schools [...]

Today was my dissertation defense, and I am happy to say that I passed with no major revisions. Hooray! There are still some minor things that I need to touch up, but that is to be expected. So, my hope is that I will have this all wrapped up and turned in to the grad [...]

While there are many things on which I could comment in this article, I want to focus solely on the image that readers see when they first view it. Take a look at this for a moment, and then think about the implications of this image on school laptop programs, regardless of the discussion following [...]

MSU Graduation 2007 Originally uploaded by hickstro. Well, the day has finally come… If I haven’t been blogging lately (which I know I haven’t), it’s because I was getting my dissertation in good enough shape to feel that I could do this — walk across the stage in MSU’s graduation ceremony tonight – Hooray! I [...]

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