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Summer Institute, Stillness, and (Digital) Storytelling

Jul 8, 2015

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in CMU, Collaboration, CRWP, Digital Storytelling, New Humanities, New Literacies, Professional Development, Reflections, Teaching, Writing

We are in the middle of week three of our Chippewa River Writing Project’s Invitational Summer Institute, and I am sitting in the late afternoon calm of writing time. At this moment, eight of the seventeen of us are here composing various pieces, including our digital stories. The rest are scattered around our building, or…

Resource Round Up

May 22, 2015

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Troy Hicks

in Blogging, CMU, Digital Is, Hybrid Learning, Mobile Learning, News and Notes, Online Learning, Professional Development, Virtual Learning

As anyone who has followed my blog probably knows, there are no ads. No banners. No AdSense. No clickbait. I don’t accept advertising nor do I often pass along information from others. Sadly, as Dan Meyer explained many years ago, many people make many dollars from those clicks, and I think that educators and parents…

Fandom Mashup with Mozilla’s Popcorn

Apr 13, 2015

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Troy Hicks

in Best Practice, CMU, Composition, Connected Learning, Digital Mentor Texts, Media and Pop Culture, New Literacies, News and Notes, Online Learning, Open Content, Reflections, Teaching, Writing

For anyone that has read this blog, seen my guest post on the Heinemann website, or heard me speak in the past few months, you know that I am becoming more and more intrigued with Mozilla’s Popcorn as a digital writing tool. Last week, my students in ENG 201 started playing around with Popcorn as…

Networked Conversations and Transformational Technology

Sep 12, 2014

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Troy Hicks

in CMU, Connected Learning, Education Reform, ENG 315, Methods, News and Notes, Professional Development, Reflections, Social Networking, Teaching, Writing

This past week has been a busy one for me, with professional experiences ranging from face-to-face workshops and two webinars, to our first school-based field experiences with pre-service teachers; additionally I met with my writing project leadership team, facilitated two writing groups and ended last night by helping to moderate a panel discussion amongst principals…

Contributing to the Conversation: Pre-Service Teachers Get Started on Twitter

Sep 3, 2014

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Troy Hicks

in Best Practice, CMU, Collaboration, Connected Learning, ENG 315, News and Notes, Professional Development, Reflections, Social Networking, Teaching, Writing

Over the past week, my ENG 315 students have been joining Twitter and using the #eng315cmu hashtag to start discussing ideas related to teaching writing and creating their own PLNs. I provided them with a few resources to get moving along. First, to create your own professional learning network and reading list, begin by reading How…

Inviting Pre-service Teachers into the Social Media Conversation

Aug 17, 2014

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Troy Hicks

in Best Practice, CMU, Connected Learning, Crafting Digital Writing, ENG 315, English Education, Methods, Mobile Learning, Online Learning, Professional Development, Social Networking, Teaching, Writing

This fall — in fact, tomorrow — marks my return to the classroom after a year-long sabbatical filled with many research projects, lots of writing, and quite a bit of travel. Like most teachers, I both crave and fear the “regularity” of the school; the days become somewhat more regimented, but the overall craziness of…

Digital Literacy Leadership Dare

Jul 25, 2014

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Troy Hicks

in Academic Life, Best Practice, CMU, Education Reform, English Education, Professional Development, Reflections, Teaching, Writing

This morning, on the final day of our digital literacy leadership workshop, we watched Chris Lehmann’s Ignite talk about “School 2.0,” and I borrowed some of his ideas to create our writing prompt: What do you dare to do as a digital literacy leader? One of the themes that has emerged for me over the…

Busy with Bloggin’

May 21, 2014

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Troy Hicks

in Academic Life, CMU, Reflections, Sabbatical, Writing

This past year, my sabbatical has provided me time to do a number of activities that I don’t normally have the time to do, most notably visiting numerous colleagues in their classrooms. A close second to my interactions with teachers and students around Michigan and the country has been, of course, the opportunity to write.…

Keynote from Reinventing the Classroom 2014 Virtual Conference

May 8, 2014

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Troy Hicks

in Assessment, Choice and Inquiry, Conferences, Crafting Digital Writing, Digital Mentor Texts, Digital Reading, Digital Writing Workshop, Literacy, Media and Pop Culture, New Media, News and Notes, Online Learning, Professional Development, Sabbatical, Teaching

My thanks to Steve Hargadon for an invitation to speak during the Reinventing the Classroom virtual conference last week. The archive of my webinar is available on YouTube. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Live, Learn, and Thrive

Apr 17, 2014

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Troy Hicks

in Best Practice, Digital Is, News and Notes, NWP, Professional Development, Sabbatical, Social Networking, Teaching, Writing

Though I first met Meenoo Rami before a National Writing Project retreat in January 2011, it was over that long weekend that my wife, Sara, and I were able to talk with her about a new venture she was beginning, #engchat. I was intrigued by her idea that a weekly chat could be something interesting…

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