February 27, 2010Troy Hicks
This morning, I was fortunate enough to be invited “home” to present my session, “Creating Your Digital Writing Workshop” at Red Cedar Writing Project’s WIDE PATHS II. Beyond the wonderful feeling of being “home” with about 30 colleagues from RCWP and sharing my book with them, I continue to be inspired by the amazing work [...]
read More »
February 4, 2010Troy Hicks
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 [...]
read More »
December 2, 2009Troy Hicks
After a wonderful week in Philly and while reflecting on my experiences at the NWP Annual Meeting, “Digital Is” Conference, and NCTE Convention, I was fortunate enough to engage with a Michigan colleague who, as a part of her master’s program, is doing an inquiry project on establishing her own digital writing workshop. She had [...]
read More »
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 [...]
read More »
March 15, 2009Troy Hicks
Digital Storytelling: Enhancing Language, Visual, and Media Literacies
MRA 2009 Presentation
Ledong Li, Tingfeng Luo, Wen Wu, Fan Zhang, Oakland University
What’s Your Story?
Stories Surround Us
What is digital storytelling?
Daniel Meadows: “short personal multimedia tales toldfrom the heart”
Educational Use of Digital Storytelling
Focus on specific topic and contain a particular [...]
read More »
November 26, 2008Troy Hicks
Apologies in advance for what will be a long post here, as my “reflection in action” during the conference consisted more of trying to find free wifi and navigating the Riverwalk than it did of actually having time to sit down and think. I tried to break my thinking up by day, for what that’s [...]
read More »
September 3, 2008Troy Hicks
Earlier this summer, Allen Webb and Robert Rozema published their text through Heinemann, Literature and the Web: Reading and Responding with New Technologies. I received a copy as a gift, and just got a chance to read it over Labor Day. Besides thanking the two of them for mentioning my blog in the book, I [...]
read More »
August 8, 2008Troy Hicks
Today marked the end of our Project WRITE summer institute, and there were both smiles and tears to be found amongst the many of us who shared our writing this morning and our professional learning this afternoon. My partner, project leader Liz Webb, structured an amazing week, given all that we had to do from [...]
read More »
March 6, 2008Troy Hicks
A Digital Storytelling Implementation Experience with Early Childhood Students
Aslihan Kocaman-Karoglu, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
What is digital storytelling?
Story telling as an ancient tradition; digital storytelling integrates visual, interactive, and reiterative with constructive ideas
“combining the art of telling stories with some mixture of digital graphics, text, recorded audio narration, video…” B. Robin, 2006
Purpose of the Study
Outlines [...]
read More »
March 5, 2008Troy Hicks
This week, I am at SITE 2008, preparing for a presentation on Project WRITE tomorrow. Today, I will try to blog from some of the sessions (as wifi will allow). Here are three sessions on digital storytelling that I attended this morning. (I will also cross-post on the Using Technology to Tell Stories Blog):
An Instructional [...]
read More »