November 26, 2009Troy Hicks
As the holidays begin, another conference season comes to a close.
For the past week, Sara and I have been in Philadelphia at the National Writing Project’s “Digital Is…” pre-conference, the NWP Annual Meeting, and the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention. As it is each year, we enjoy spending time with colleagues and [...]
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November 22, 2009Troy Hicks
Notes from “Erasing Copyright Confusion” at NCTE 2009
Joyce Valenza, Renee Hobbs, Kristin Hokanson, and Michael RobbGrieco
Center for Social Media
Renee Hobbs, Temple — What is the purpose of copyright?
Protect intellectual property
Ownership, profit
Authors’ right
In fact, the purpose of copyright is to promote creativity, innovation, and the spread of knowledge
Owners have pushed for longer length of copyright
How we [...]
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November 20, 2009Troy Hicks
Notes from “Integrating New Literacies into Classroom Practice and the Resulting Impact on Site Leadership”
NWP 2009 Annual Meeting
This session invited four teacher consultants/tech liaisons to discuss their personal experiences with technology and the ways in which these
experiences led to changes in their site’s work. Knowing two of these teachers through my work with NWP’s 2007 [...]
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November 18, 2009Troy Hicks
The Social Media Portfolio: Using Technology to Promote Meta-cognitive Skill Development
At NWP’s Digital Is
Rafi Santo, Amana Kaskazi, and Shonell Richmond
Global Kids
20 Years in existence and focusing on significant global issues
Issues: Local to global and global to local understanding
Leadership: Skills necessary to affect change
Technology: How does new media contribute to our mission of global citizenship; our [...]
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November 18, 2009Troy Hicks
Danielle Nicole DeVoss asks us to think about what digital was then and is now…
Digital is…
Networked — we compose in networked spaces
Collaborative — people are able to connect and create through these networks (LolCats)
Multimodal — typography, kinetic type, digital stories
Re-Mediated — taking a media object and recreating it so it moves across media; moving across [...]
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November 8, 2009Troy Hicks
As we prepare to head to the NWP Annual Meeting and NCTE Convention in just about a week, I am also plugging away at our Chippewa River Writing Project Continued Funding Application. I have come to one of the most compelling parts of the report, at least for me… the point where we reflect on [...]
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