Archive for the ‘Methods’ Category

Mid-Summer Thoughts: Technology Use in Class

August 2, 2010Troy Hicks 8 Comments »

Recently, a conversation on our department’s listserve sparked me to offer a rare response. Most of what you need to know about the conversation on the list is embedded in my comments below, and I would welcome ideas for how you help students use technology during class in productive, ethical, and responsible ways. — Colleagues, [...]

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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 Lisa Dawley’s “The Evolution of Teacher Education in a Digital Learning Era” at SITe 2010″

March 31, 2010Troy Hicks No Comments »

The Evolution of Teacher Education in a Digital Learning Era: Transforming Knowledge in the Global Network Lisa Dawley, Boise State University The Unavoidable Evolution in Teacher Education Travels around the world, others saying that American students are creative; yet, still calls for reform, especially in teacher education, keep happening here in US New US EdTech [...]

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Looking for Feedback on the Idea of a Digital Writing Project

November 8, 2009Troy Hicks 2 Comments »

As we prepare to head to the NWP Annual Meeting and NCTE Convention in just about a week, I am also plugging away at our Chippewa River Writing Project Continued Funding Application. I have come to one of the most compelling parts of the report, at least for me… the point where we reflect on [...]

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Reflecting on the Purposes of Digital Writing and Professional Development

September 29, 2009Troy Hicks 1 Comment »

Over the past few weeks, I have had a few opportunities to reexamine my thinking about the purposes of digital writing and professional development. As Sara begins her doctoral program at MSU and has started to share her own thinking through her “Connecting, Collaborating, Continuing to Learn” blog, it has given me pause to think [...]

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Personal Technology Learning and the Teaching of Writing

January 15, 2009Troy Hicks 3 Comments »

Today, I will be introducing my ENG 315 pre-service teachers to the idea of developing their “digital teaching persona” and thinking critically about why and how to use technology in their personal technology learning and to become better teachers of writing. Each semester, I face the act of balancing the introduction of a number of [...]

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Reflections on the Semester and the Season

December 18, 2008Troy Hicks 2 Comments »

Been trying to get focused on writing for the books again tonight, but catching up on RSS reading and some recent posts from Andrea, Aram, and Sara reminded me to take some time with family and catch up on some personal reading (besides RSS feeds). So, I figured I would reflect on a few things [...]

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CEE Podcast: Examining Writing in a Time of Change

November 4, 2008Troy Hicks No Comments »

The CEE Web Editing Team has been hard at work, and this is the first in what we hope will become a series of regular podcasts with leaders in English Education. Please add comments to the page and continue the conversation about teaching writing in the 21st century. Examining Writing in a Time of Change: [...]

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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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An Update on Blogging, Podcasting, and Wikiing with Pre-Service Teachers

February 2, 2008Troy Hicks 1 Comment »

January has been a busy month for me as I have been coordinating field placements for my ENG 315 students and we have begun exploring the use of blogs, wikis, podcasts, and RSS in our teaching lives. When we began this work a few short weeks ago, only a handful of these pre-service teachers had [...]

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