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 [...]

My friend and RCWP colleague, Marcus Brown, has been working for about a year to open the Village Summit in the house next door to his Lansing home. You can read about many of the trials and tribulations that Marcus, his wife, and everyone involved in creating the Village Summit have had to endure in [...]

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 [...]

Notes from “Erasing Copyright Confusion” at NCTE 2009
Joyce Valenza, Renee Hobbs, Kristin Hokanson, and Michael RobbGrieco
Center for Social Media

Renee Hobbs, Temple — What is the purpose of copyright?

Protect intellectual property
Ownership, profit
Authors’ right

In fact, the purpose of copyright is to promote creativity, innovation, and the spread of knowledge

Owners have pushed for longer length of copyright

How we [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Today, I received an exciting announcement from Kellie Bramlet with MIT Press Journals. In addition to the series of books that they released last year with a Creative Commons license, they are now offering the following new journal:
The International Journal of Learning and Media
MIT Press, in cooperation with The Monterey Institute for Technology and Education [...]

Notes from Andrea Zellner’s RCWP Google Day Presentation

Reflecting on Google Teacher Academy

Thinking about the tools almost exclusively, and we want to focus on literacy practices

Writing prompt:

What is Literacy? What is Technological Literacy? How are they different? How do they support one another?

Literacy — the ability read, write, listen, speak, view, and visually represent texts [...]

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 from [...]

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 [...]