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 [...]

Notes from “Integrating New Literacies into Classroom Practice and the Resulting Impact on Site Leadership”
NWP 2009 Annual Meeting
This session invited four teacher consultants/tech liaisons to discuss their personal experiences with technology and the ways in which these
experiences led to changes in their site’s work. Knowing two of these teachers through my work with NWP’s 2007 [...]

The Social Media Portfolio: Using Technology to Promote Meta-cognitive Skill Development
At NWP’s Digital Is
Rafi Santo, Amana Kaskazi, and Shonell Richmond

Global Kids

20 Years in existence and focusing on significant global issues
Issues: Local to global and global to local understanding
Leadership: Skills necessary to affect change
Technology: How does new media contribute to our mission of global citizenship; our [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 “Using Social Media to Define the New Humanities” – Antonio Viva

Thinking about new humanities

Context, conversation, collaboration

How do we educate our students for success in the web 2.0 world?

Can we harness the power of social media to provide students with a vehicle for exploring and creating original content?

Old School Creative Writing

Genre based instruction
Anthology as [...]