An NWP colleague, Natalie Bernasconi from the Central California Writing Project, recently sent an email with some questions:
I’m interested in how infusing technology into the classroom as exemplified by Youth Voices and other initiatives changes the way teachers see their own role and their own identity.
I’m also interested in examining the relationship between teachers’ sense [...]

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 [...]

From our site visit earlier this winter, the media and public relations team at CMU has put together an article and podcast about the Chippewa River Writing Project. I find it fitting that as we pursue digital writing within the project that the way in which it was announced to the CMU community comes in [...]

Been a long time since I’ve been blogging… hope to get “caught up” on some emerging ideas over spring break. But, for now, here is some good news from RCWP. Congrats to Janet for her leadership and all my colleagues whose work made this award possible!
The Engaged Scholar – Featured MSU Engaged Faculty – Janet [...]

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 [...]

Shameless self-promotion alert:
My friend and RCWP colleague, Dawn Reed and I are facilitating an NCTE Webinar, Re-Seeing the Writing Process with Blogging and Podcasting, on Tuesday, December 2nd at 5:00 PM EST.
Thanks to all who have sent kind words my way about the webinar. It promises to be a learning experience for Dawn and I [...]

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 [...]

An RCWP colleague and friend, Heather Lewis, posted this message to the RCWP listserv last week:
http://www.nea.org/neatoday/0810/youtube.html
I found this article interesting. Part of me is like: I shouldn’t do anything in my class I wouldn’t want broadcast.
But then part of me is like: Hey, they’re taking things out of context and slanting the [...]

My sincere thanks go out to all my colleagues in the Michigan Council of Teachers of English, the Red Cedar Writing Project and all the other professional organizations that I have been a part of in the past decade. Last Friday, I was genuinely surprised to be awarded the Charles Carpenter Fries Award, reported here [...]