Just a quick response to the notion of the Digital Writing Project. I’ve always been impressed with the ability of the NWP to support and sustain so many writing project sites – and still maintain personal connections to each of them and to many individuals within those sites. Achieving the goal of having a writing project site in the reach of every teacher, however, is going to require a huge leap across paradigms – not impossible by any means, but it is change, and fairly significant change. Glad you are moving on with this notion – because change always comes whether we want it or not – being proactive ensures our ability to influence the amount, direction, and kind of change.

Karen

By constantly moving back and forth from the technical to the critical and rhetorical aspects of composition – both analog and digital – we feel that participants were better able to articulate what was creative about their work, as well as why that approach worked.

I also think that your statement about teaching coming expecting to become part of the technological movement, and being ready for it, is important. I’m not sure all of our folks come in the same way and I wonder if there is something about the image your site projects to the world that we are lacking (but hopefully, can integrate as we revamp our web presence).

I don’t have much for you to add, Troy. Looks good and interesting.

You may want to drop this into Tech Friends if you are looking for a specific NWP audience with tech experience. Just a thought.

Kevin