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 [...]

Tomorrow, I will be presenting two sessions at the Sessions at Wisconsin State Reading Association Conference. Here are descriptions of the sessions and the related presentations:
From School to Screen: Why Digital Writing Matters (9:30 – 10:45)
Without question, writing continues to change in the twenty-first century. Teachers, administrators, parents, and other stakeholders value the teaching of [...]

As the holidays begin, another conference season comes to a close.
For the past week, Sara and I have been in Philadelphia at the National Writing Project’s “Digital Is…” pre-conference, the NWP Annual Meeting, and the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention. As it is each year, we enjoy spending time with colleagues and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

As we prepare to head to the NWP Annual Meeting and NCTE Convention in just about a week, I am also plugging away at our Chippewa River Writing Project Continued Funding Application. I have come to one of the most compelling parts of the report, at least for me… the point where we reflect on [...]

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 [...]

Teachers Teaching Teachers: Conferring and Response in the Digital Writing WorkshopOctober 14, 2009
In this final episode of our three part series, please join Troy Hicks, author of The Digital Writing Workshop, and Director of the Chippewa River Writing Project at Central Michigan University, as we continue exploring the principles and practices described in the book. [...]

This past weekend, our department chair received an email from a local high school English teacher who asked, in short, should they be teaching students how to do a “traditional” research paper — including the use of 3×5 note cards — because some of his colleagues are strong supporters of it and others consider it [...]