Digital Writing, Digital Teaching

Integrating New Literacies into the Teaching of Writing

Browsing Posts published on March 5, 2008

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: The Use of Digital Photography to Enhance Literacy Development in Young Children Lauren Cummins, Regina Rees, and Kelly Bacroft, Youngstown State University What do we know about literacy development? Young children are natural storytellers, and they “write” stories through pictures Children use pictures to help them remember about [...]

Why Do Some Teachers Trust Technology and Some Don’t? Andrea Francis, Michigan State University Reasons for Exclusion Lack of social and institutional support Lack of funding Lack of adwquate training for the task Psychological Factors Fear of using digital technologies Inability to overcome “functional fixedness” Why do some people trust technology and others don’t? Trust [...]

Thanks to those of you who attended my session at SITE 2008 on Project WRITE. As promised, here are links to the items discussed in the session: Project WRITE Wiki Project WRITE Blog Presentation on Slide Share Presentation Podcast Please leave comments here so we can continue the conversation. Thanks, Troy

This week, I am at SITE 2008, preparing for a presentation on Project WRITE tomorrow. Today, I will try to blog from some of the sessions (as wifi will allow). Here are three sessions on digital storytelling that I attended this morning. (I will also cross-post on the Using Technology to Tell Stories Blog): An [...]

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