Archive for the ‘New Media’ Category

Updates on Thinkfinity

August 17, 2010Troy Hicks 1 Comment »

For many years, I have been a fan of Thinkfinity, especially ReadWriteThink. And, while I have generally stopped posting messages about new web-based products and services from the many, many emails that I get each month, this one caught my attention: The Verizon Foundation have partnered with nationally recognized leaders in educational disciplines including literacy, [...]

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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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Notes from Erin Reilly’s “Remix Culture for Learning” at SITE 2010

March 31, 2010Troy Hicks 1 Comment »

The Gap Between Life and Art: Remix Culture for Learning Erin Reilly, University of Southern California Project New Media Literacies Context of remix culture One in four online teens remix content that they find online (like songs, text, and images) and remix them into their own artistic creations Remixing media is a part of participatory [...]

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Composing Community

January 17, 2010Troy Hicks 1 Comment »

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 [...]

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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 “Erasing Copyright Confusion” at NCTE 2009

November 22, 2009Troy Hicks 1 Comment »

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 [...]

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Notes from “Integrating New Literacies into Classroom Practice and the Resulting Impact on Site Leadership”

November 20, 2009Troy Hicks No Comments »

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 [...]

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Notes from “The Social Media Portfolio: Using Technology to Promote Meta-cognitive Skill Development” at NWP’s Digital Is

November 18, 2009Troy Hicks No Comments »

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 [...]

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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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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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