Tomorrow, I will be presenting two sessions at the Sessions at Wisconsin State Reading Association Conference. Here are descriptions of the sessions and the related presentations:
From School to Screen: Why Digital Writing Matters (9:30 – 10:45)
Without question, writing continues to change in the twenty-first century. Teachers, administrators, parents, and other stakeholders value the teaching of [...]

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 [...]

NOTE: This was written yesterday in the post-conference, pre-flight moments that I had on the train from downtown to the airport. Since my flight didn’t arrive in Lansing until about 1:30 AM last night, I was just now able to put the finishing touches on it. Hope it makes some sense…
Sunday, January 25, 2009
As I [...]

Notes from 21st Century Assessment Session
Konrad Glogowski

What we know about assessment

Assessment is the tail that wags the curriculum dog
Grades with substantive comments have the most impact on
learning

What impact does a blogging community have on the role of the teacher?

Reflecting on what happens in the classroom, both online and off — show how much you have [...]

Notes from “Using Social Media to Define the New Humanities” – Antonio Viva

Thinking about new humanities

Context, conversation, collaboration

How do we educate our students for success in the web 2.0 world?

Can we harness the power of social media to provide students with a vehicle for exploring and creating original content?

Old School Creative Writing

Genre based instruction
Anthology as [...]

Another great session this week, this time with one of the co-authors of the Writing Next report: Steve Graham.
Here is an overview from the MSU LARC site:

Steve Graham, Vanderbilt University
Evidence-Based Practice in Writing – Drawing on Experimental, Qualitative, and Single Subject Design Research for Answers

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
11:30am – 1:00pm
Room 133F Erickson [...]

Last Friday, I was invited to lead a “brown bag” session for my English department’s composition program. Titled “Multiliteracies in Composition,” we focused our pre-reading on an article about a second-year college composition course developed at Michigan Tech called “Revisions.” Details can be found in the following article:
Lynch, Dennis A., and Anne Frances Wysocki. “From [...]

From the Google Reader….
It makes no sense complaining about the decline of the printed word. As it becomes just another medium, we are moving to a kind of multimedia literacy, where capability with print becomes no more important, or useful, than capability with image.
This is not necessarily a bad thing. There is no rule that [...]

My colleague Rob Rozema from GVSU has invited my students and I to participate in a new Ning social network, Teach English. I am very excited about the opportunity to be involved in this project, and we will also have students from Allen Webb’s course at WMU join in, too.
As we consider what we will [...]

Yesterday, our RCWP Project WRITE team had the good fortune of being able to work with NWP’s Director of Research and Evaluation, Paul LeMahieu, on an analytic writing continuum workshop. In his talk, which was similar to the session that I attended last summer, he talked about how the continuum has been developed, the pedagogical [...]