Digital Writing, Digital Teaching

Congrats to Kevin for being awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award from the New England Association of Teachers of English.

Check out his multimedia poem, Blink, and you will understand why he earned such an award!

Hey, like the new banner?

When I was talking with other Tech Liaisons a few weeks ago in Chico, Writely was one of the hot topics. With the potential for real-time collaboration, Writely finally delivers what many teachers using technology in their writing classrooms have been asking for over the past many years that Word couldn’t seem to deliver (at least not in a user-friendly fashion). Along with real-time editing, it can save versions for quick comparisons, invite collaborators, be published easily to a blog or website, be tracked with RSS, and be saved online. No more lost disks (or, is it jump drives now?). I will write more on Writely later, but this is just a brief overview of some of its capabilities.

At any rate, I thought that I would try to make a decent banner and create the image as the link. I stole some CSS code from Rob, who assured me that I would figure this out on my own some day. Well, I did, with a little help…

Here is a link to the podcast that Ellen, Luis, Tonya, and I did for day three of Tech Matters.

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Originally uploaded by tlwitherspoon.

Here is Chris, playing the pawn shop guitar!

This photo was taken in Rick’s beautiful backyard, up the the “hills” north of Chico.

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Originally uploaded by tlwitherspoon.

Here, Tonya has captured me in a frantic state, trying to encode an MP3 in Audacity, download the Our Media installer, and trying to run one of our group sessions. Yikes!

I guess that this reminds me how often I take for granted the fact that I can usually multi-task without too many problems and when the technology gets in the way, it can be a real stumbling block for anyone. A good thing to keep in mind when facilitating any tech workshop…