Digital Writing, Digital Teaching

Integrating New Literacies into the Teaching of Writing

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Finally, I am catching up on some blog reading/writing. This past summer was super busy for me at RCWP, as we did many, many workshops — averaging about one a day over the entire summer — all focused on new literacies and new technologies. Julie had some kind words to say about one of the [...]

Dear Mrs. Klotz, I think that it is great that you are asking your students to have a jump drive as part of their school supplies. Given the work that we did this summer, I think that this is an incredibly practical idea and I look forward to seeing how this works out for you [...]

Karen, I think that you are right on the money here. Change, in any context is difficult. What I find most interesting about technology relates to the things that we choose to change and the things that we don’t necessarily have a choice over. For instance, with Spurl and Furl, I have complete control over [...]

Joe, I agree with you about Spurl – I think that it is possibly the most useful of the social bookmarking sites, although I must admit that I am still using Furl primarily because it is what I started with way back when. I am interested in seeing how you embed the bookmarks in your [...]

Karen, I think that your idea to integrate Writely documents into your course handouts is great. I am trying to think about other ways to use Writely (in addition to everything that we came up with at TM06) for a workshop next week and I will be sure to reference your idea here. Thanks, Troy

Hi Rob, Sorry that it’s been awhile since I visited your blog. I was looking for some CSS code and spent a few minutes catching up on reading, too. So, what is your take on the MySpace debate? Is there room to still use MySpace in schools in a productive, ethical way? What are your [...]

Thanks, David, for referencing my post about students using Flickr as a part of a digital photography/writing lesson. Your post has links to tons of other great ideas that I hope to explore. Troy

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