So, a few things have happened in the last week that have me thinking about my belief that “it’s not about the technology, it’s about the literacy practices the technology enables.” As much as I do believe that, there is a certain point at which the technology has to be functional in order for the [...]
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Bonnie asks a good (and loaded) question here: How could I bring the podcasts onto the team blog? Well, a few of you noticed that I tried to test a podcast through my blog/feed the other day. I did that to help Bonnie from HVWP to do a podcast for her tech team. Then, Karen [...]
Before the NWP Annual meeting, I had three separate conversations (one by email, one by phone, and one in person) with colleagues from the local, state, and national level about why and how to use digital reading and writing in their classrooms and for professional development. I had many more of these conversations at the [...]
It’s been a busy two weeks without much time to blog here, but a link to this article from NCTE’s Inbox caught my eye. This fall, I have been pushing friends and colleagues to go paperless with free and open source applications, like Google Docs, and even though this isn’t quite the same, seeing that [...]
Hey, I am still blogging. I am just over at the RCWP blog, talking about things going on in Nashville this weekend. See you there.
Thanks to the team at MSU’s Blogs for Learning for featuring my blog under their “User Submitted Blogs” list. This looks like it can become a great resource based on what they have described here: What is Blogs for Learning? Welcome to Blogs for Learning, an online resource about instructional blogging. The site provides students [...]
Just a quick note to say that I’ve been enjoying the Teachers Teaching Teachers webcast for the past few weeks. Here is a piece of the write-up from last night’s episode. Check it out. Our conversation this evening began innocently enough with Gail Desler, the technology liaison for the Area 3 Writing Project in and [...]
MCTE 2006 Originally uploaded by hickstro. Last Friday, Alfie Kohn spoke at the MCTE 2006 Conference. There were many points that he made about standards, assessments, and accountability, most of which I agreed with, some of which I would want to take issue. However, there were a few research studies that he mentioned (and that [...]
Here are some notes from another presentation on campus: Using Multi-Media Records of K-12 Practice as Teacher Education “Texts” by Pam Grossman and Anna Ershler Richert In this presentation we will explore the use of web-based, multi-media representations of practice in teacher education. Both of us are affiliated with the Quest project, of the Carnegie [...]
Here is an article that features a summary of the great work being done by the New Literacies Research Team. I saw them at AERA earlier this year and I think that they are on to some interesting points about online reading, especially in light of all the Wikipedia-ish concerns this summer. Study aims to [...]
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