Category: ENG 315
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Wikispaces announces free wikis for higher ed
For those of you who know my teaching and writing, you know that I am a fan of wikis, in particular of Wikispaces. From my ENG 315 course to the Chippewa River Writing Project, from my own wiki full of digital writing resources to the wiki for my book, I use their wikis all the…
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End of Semester Thoughts: Digital Storytelling, Wikis, and the Changing Conversation
Another semester has zoomed past and, before these thoughts escape me, and I begin a series of summer workshops and our CRWP summer institute, I am going to try to capture a few of the lessons learned in relation to digital writing and digital teaching. Good lessons seem to come in threes, so here goes:…
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Notes from Alfie Kohn’s Talk at CMU
Alfie Kohn, an outspoken critic of traditional schooling and standardized testing, spoke at CMU on Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Here are some notes I captured from his talk, “Overhauling the Transmission Model: An overview of traditional versus progressive teaching” You may know if you have been a student or teacher that learning is not simply…
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Quick Quote in MEA Voice
Just today, a colleague of mine was telling me that I need to be better at self-promotion. So, here goes… Future teachers (college students now) use blogs and wikis to share their own writing—so they can someday help their own students do the same. “Teachers are teaching the digital generation,” explained Troy Hicks, assistant professor…
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Notes from RCWP Google Day
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,…
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Personal Technology Learning and the Teaching of Writing
Today, I will be introducing my ENG 315 pre-service teachers to the idea of developing their “digital teaching persona” and thinking critically about why and how to use technology in their personal technology learning and to become better teachers of writing. Each semester, I face the act of balancing the introduction of a number of…
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Reflections on the Semester and the Season
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Been trying to get focused on writing for the books again tonight, but catching up on RSS reading and some recent posts from Andrea, Aram, and Sara reminded me to take some time with family and catch up on some personal reading (besides RSS feeds). So, I figured I would reflect on a few things…
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CMU Podcast Interview on Technology Literacy
Earlier this month, one of my students, Lynette Seitz, and I were interviewed by Heather Smith, CMU’s Assistant Director of Media Relations about technology literacy and our work in ENG 315 this semester. I appreciate her invitation to record this podcast and it was wonderful to have Lynette’s voice in there, too, as a pre-service…
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Meme: Passion Quilt
Kevin tagged me to continue Miguel‘s Passion Quilt meme. Cool! Given that I have been reading about memes in Lankshear and Knobel’s New Literacies, this was timely. So, here goes: Images from my ENG 315: Writing in the Elementary Schools Courses, Spring 2008 Why these images? Well, they highlight some of the conversations that we…