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HVWP Tech Team Keeps Moving!

March 11, 2007Troy Hicks No Comments »

Hi Bonnie and Tech Team Members: Thanks for linking to my post on comics — Rick amd Mitch are doing some great work on that for RCWP. It looks like you had a great meeting yesterday and I am glad to know that you are using Comic Life in your work. Good luck planning the [...]

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Chinese Immersion Program in Michigan

February 20, 2007Troy Hicks No Comments »

Hey GEEK!ED! Crew, You mentioned that you are looking for programs that are doing Chinese in one of your recent podcasts — there is one right up the road from you in Lansing that is being created in collaboration with MSU. Check it out at: http://postoak.lansingschools.net/chinese.html

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If the Read/Write Web is About Community…

February 17, 2007Troy Hicks No Comments »

… then this group of students exemplifies what community can be. Brian Crosby and his students have begun video conferencing with a homebound student using a laptop with a web cam and Skype. Just today, I was talking with a group of academic advisers about how they could connect with their students via Skype, and [...]

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Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

February 6, 2007Troy Hicks No Comments »

The link to this video, “Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us” has been the hit of the day on a number of listservs that I am on. Watch it, and you will see why.

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Tag, I’m It

January 2, 2007Troy Hicks 2 Comments »

So, Kevin tagged me yesterday, and now I am doing a little self-disclosure. Well, here goes: In high school, I played the trombone and I was the drum major of the marching band for two years. Geeky! To continue my love of marching band, and perhaps of geeky-ness, I was a four-year member of the [...]

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Comments on Teachers Teaching Teachers Disucssion of “Appropriation”

November 30, 2006Troy Hicks 2 Comments »

Although I wasn’t really able to join the conversation tonight through Skype, the Teachers Teaching Teachers crew asked a great question tonight: Do our blogs have a student-sponsored life of their own? Have our blog sites moved beyond Fisher’s “new literacy practices as sugar” to allowing students to “combine their concerns and self interest with [...]

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Mourning the loss of Writey

October 13, 2006Troy Hicks 1 Comment »

Both Kevin and Leigh mourn the loss of Writely, too. Kevin notes “poor Troy designed his blog banner by using the Writely interface as his design template.” Indeed! Who would have thought that merely a few months into using a tool like Writely the screen shot that I turned into a banner would be so [...]

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Re: Popular Media Representations of Scientific Methods

October 6, 2006Troy Hicks No Comments »

Steve asks, “can you think of any examples of representations of “scientific method” in popular media?” I am not often on the look out for this, let alone watching TV, so I am sure that there are some examples that are embedded in shows other than CSI that have implications for you. However, the one [...]

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Re: Episode 11 on its way!

September 11, 2006Troy Hicks No Comments »

Hi Chris, I just wanted to touch base with you about your Teach with Tech podcast. I have been listening for a few months and I appreciate how you discuss new technologies and contextualize them in K-12 and higher ed applications. Just a quick comment on your Opera segment from last month. I have been [...]

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Re: Some of My Input

September 9, 2006Troy Hicks No Comments »

Bud, I, too, have been listening to GEEK!ED!, and found the discussion with David Warlick engaging. Sometimes they seem right on target, sometimes they veer, but it is generally a good show. I appreciate their humor, but when they really start to laugh, it can hurt the eardrums! Abject Learning is a blog by Brian [...]

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