Author: hickstro
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Slides from Keep Michigan Learning Session: Supporting Literacy Learning for Secondary Students
On Tuesday, May 12, I was able to present some ideas on “Supporting Literacy Learning for Secondary Students” with my friend, colleague, and co-author, Jeremy Hyler, as part of Michigan Virtual’s “Keep Michigan Learning” webinar series. Here are the slides (with links) that we shared during the session. [googleapps domain=”docs” dir=”presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRkpX6w-UzkZjx6DSJ9v2dxuUABP7ks-RkFqP3WmC023EwB08v56P3zK0PYwnGikdP2lg2ScEdNFWx8/embed” query=”start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000″ width=”480″ height=”299″ /]…
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Podcast with Ivy Ewell Eldridge on “Writing with Digital Tools”
While attending the California Association of Teachers of English (CATE) conference in February, I was invited to speak with CNUSDEdChat. My thanks to the entire CNUSDEdChat team — Ivy Ewell-Eldridge, Annemarie Cortez, Kim Kemmer, Jenny Cordura, and Kate Jackson — for welcoming me to this conversation. Follow more of their work via their homepage, Soundcloud…
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Webinar Archive: Literacy in a Time of Rapid Change – Strategies & Resources for Virtual Learning
Here is an archived recording of our Wednesday, March 25, 2020 webinar on EdWeb, “Literacy in a Time of Rapid Change: Strategies and Resources for Virtual Learning,” as well as the GDoc handout from the session. We are now in the midst of a “new normal,” and questions about what virtual instruction will look like…
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Ideas from Instagram Live Conversation: “Online Teaching and Learning English”
Edited Post: Video added on May 30, 2020. Earlier today, I was honored to be invited by Alireza Qadiri Hedeshi, Dean of Foreign Languages Department at Mehryar Institution of Higher Education, for an Instagram Live conversation. Here are some of the questions that he and his colleagues shared, as well as some brief responses that…
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Resources and Reflections from “Online Environments and Your Students: Strategies to Inform Writing Instruction Webinar”
Earlier this afternoon, I was pleased to be on a webinar, “Online Environments and Your Students: Strategies to Inform Writing Instruction” (Archived Video) with Jessie Borgman (Arizona State University), and Casey McArdle (Michigan State University). Hosted by Brett Griffiths, Director of Reading and Writing Studios at Macomb Community College, we covered a good deal of…
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Where Do We (Virtually) Go From Here?
Last night, in conversation with colleagues during a writing group meeting — and, as an accumulation of many ideas, from numerous conversations in the past week — I shared an idea, probably not a completely original one, but one that garnered some conversation on Twitter nonetheless. Forgive the typo, where “it” should be “if”: Both…
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More than “Moving Online”: Critical and Creative Teaching in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
More than “Moving Online” Critical and Creative Teaching in Response to the COVID-19 Crisis A Series of Online Workshops for Educators sponsored by Ed Tech Faculty, Students, and Alumni from Central Michigan University Sunday, March 15, 2020 | 4:00 to 9:00 PM EST Update: Monday, March 16, at 11:45 AM EST Thanks to all who…
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On COVID-19 (and the Moving of Courses from Campus to Cloud)
After conversations with colleagues and family in the past few days — and awkward pauses during a conference on Friday, moments which would have normally been filled with handshakes and hugs — I, too, felt compelled to write about the topic everyone is talking about. As we (collectively, read “we” here as “the education community”)…
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Open with Intention: Digital Diligence at the Moment of Connection
Everytime we touch a device (or activate it with our voice), we do so with the goal of doing something. Maybe it is to look up information. Maybe it is to play a game. Maybe it is to buy something. Maybe it is a combination of these three common uses, and one leads to another…
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Teaching Digital Diligence: Writing My Way Toward (More) Intentional Technology Use in English Language Arts
As the change in calendar is likely to do for all of us during these first days of the new year, I am looking back (and ahead) at an unfulfilled goal from 2019, and thinking about what I need to do to get back on track with a book project that I first shouted out…