Earlier this month, I blogged about some sessions from the Wisconsin State Reading Association on the NWP Walkabout Posterous site and I am (finally) cross-posting them here with links to the original posts… sorry for the delay!
2/7/10 - Cinch from Coiro and Kajder
I really enjoy it when new technologies challenge me.
Honest…
Figuring out how to embed a [...]

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 [...]

Dan Priest is a pre-service teacher from Western Michigan University and presented “Rethinking Technology in the Multimodal Classroom” at MCTE’s fall conference. He suggested that his explorations of the internet and some of the tools available continue to inspire the ways in which he teaches with technology. Using his Wii remote/homemade Smartboard, he argues that [...]

Today, I am at Fordham University, presenting at their summer literacy institute focusing on 21st Century Literacies. I am honored to have the opportunity to present with Kathi Yancey, and she is currently in the middle of her session about “Blogging Alive,” asking participants to think about the purposes and audiences for blogging.
She began by [...]

This morning, we are in the middle of week two of our Chippewa River Writing Project summer institute, and the timing for writing this post couldn’t be better.
Yesterday, we went to the CMU library and our English reference librarian, Aparna Zambare, gave us an introduction to the library databases and Zotero. Minus a few technical [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]