Archive for the ‘Digital Storytelling’ Category

End of Semester Thoughts: Digital Storytelling, Wikis, and the Changing Conversation

May 26, 2010Troy Hicks 4 Comments »

Another semester has zoomed past and, before these thoughts escape me, and I begin a series of summer workshops and our CRWP summer institute, I am going to try to capture a few of the lessons learned in relation to digital writing and digital teaching. Good lessons seem to come in threes, so here goes: [...]

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Notes from Thursday Afternoon Sessions at SITE 2010

April 1, 2010Troy Hicks 2 Comments »

A smorgasbord of sessions from SITE 2010 with the notes I was able to catch from each (some more than others)… enjoy! Technology Enhanced Collaboration – Schools and Teachers Engaged in Professional Development Tim Frey, Kansas State University Context Two districts that are 65 miles apart and both rural 20 teachers, K-12 (web cam and stipend) Online [...]

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Report from RCWP’s WIDE PATHS 2010

February 27, 2010Troy Hicks 1 Comment »

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 [...]

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Sessions at Wisconsin State Reading Association Conference

February 4, 2010Troy Hicks 1 Comment »

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 [...]

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Framing an Approach to the Digital Writing Workshop

December 2, 2009Troy Hicks 6 Comments »

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 [...]

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Notes from Danielle Nicole DeVoss’s Opening Keynote at NWP’s “Digital Is…”

November 18, 2009Troy Hicks No Comments »

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 [...]

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Notes from “Digital Storytelling: Enhancing Language, Visual, and Media Literacies”

March 15, 2009Troy Hicks 2 Comments »

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 point ofview [...]

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San Antonio, Tech To Go, and Back to the Snow

November 26, 2008Troy Hicks 2 Comments »

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 [...]

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Brief Review of Webb and Rozema’s “Literature and the Web”

September 3, 2008Troy Hicks 3 Comments »

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 [...]

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Reflections on Project WRITE’s Summer Institute

August 8, 2008Troy Hicks No Comments »

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 [...]

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