Category: CMU
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Tracing the Common Core in Michigan
My colleague Robert Rozema has asked me to speak at the Michigan Council of Teachers of English annual conference later this week about where the “common core conversation” is at in Michigan. So, I have gathered a few resources that trace CCSS implementation in our state, and across the nation, including the current debate. This…
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Please Join Us: K-12 Teaching in the 21st Century MOOC
Though I am a little late to the MOOC movement, I’m excited to be participating in a venture this fall — K-12 Teaching in the 21st Century — that will be facilitated by Rick Ferdig, Kristine Pytash, and a host of other educators from around Michigan. Here is a quick summary, and you can register…
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The Reading Room Webcast: Digital Reading & Writing
Last night, I was invited to be on the second episode of the new webcast hosted by Heidi Perry from Subtext, the Reading Room. It was a great conversation about tips and tools for digital reading and writing, and I was pleased to have the chance to talk with Heidi and Sydnye Cohen, a high school…
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My Digital Reading Practices, Part 6
With the encouragement of colleagues who have read, responded to, questioned, tweeted, retweeted, and otherwise pushed my thinking on digital reading over the past week, I want to bring this series to a close (for now). There will be more to come as Kristen and I continue to work on our book for NCTE, and…
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My Digital Reading Practices, Part 3
With another set of helpful comments and questions from colleagues and readers, I am again thinking about my digital reading practices today, as I did both Monday and Tuesday this week. Kristen has again prompted my thinking for this morning’s post: Excellent. I’m changing a few practices of my own now. Still curious about when…
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My Digital Reading Practices, Part 2
Yesterday, I began this series of blog posts on digital reading practices with my thoughts about annotating texts, both PDFs and web-based. My colleague and co-author, Kristen Turner, asked me to step back and write about how I find reading material* to begin with: How do you find texts worthy of annotating? How do you…
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My Digital Reading Practices, Part 1
Last week, I began blogging about my thoughts on digital reading. At the encouragement of my co-author, Kristen Turner, I’m going to work over the next few weeks to document some of my own digital reading practices as we begin to draft the book. I will be visiting classrooms, surveying students, and interviewing teachers as…
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Thinking about Reading in a Digital Age
As the title of my blog says, I am certainly interested in the intersections of digital teaching and digital writing. Thinking about the ways that writers can use certain technologies to reach rhetorical goals has long been an interest of mine, and this fall I am turning my attention to the other side of the…
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What I’ve Done on Summer Vacation (So Far)
Over the past few weeks, I have had the good fortune of facilitating our 2013 Chippewa River Writing Project and participating in a number of Google Hangouts where I have talked about my new book, Crafting Digital Writing. I’ve gathered all those videos up and posted them on a page of the book’s companion wiki.…
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Reflections on CMU’s High Impact Teaching Academy
Last fall, I joined CMU’s High Impact Teaching Academy with the specific goal of rethinking the approach to teaching my methods course, ENG 315: “Writing in the Elementary and Middle Schools.” While I am unable to present my final project in person this week, I did want to share three components of my refined approach:…