Category: Academic Life
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Story on CRWP from The News @ Central
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From our site visit earlier this winter, the media and public relations team at CMU has put together an article and podcast about the Chippewa River Writing Project. I find it fitting that as we pursue digital writing within the project that the way in which it was announced to the CMU community comes in…
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Creating a Digital Writing Project
As the end of the semester approaches, the pace quickens for us as we plan for our inaugural summer institute at the Chippewa River Writing Project. In conversations that began many months ago and have stretched across talks with NWP folks like Will, Bud, Paul, Peter, and Sara, my thinking on what I want for…
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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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Announcing TimeRime.com
Announcing TimeRime.com A note from Jermaine Lievendag of TimeRime.com We have launched a website called www.timerime.com. TimeRime.com is a website that allows visitors to view, create and compare timelines. These timelines can be illustrated with pictures, text, YouTube movies and MP3. On our website, you will find timelines about music, movies, history, politics, art et…
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Notes from 7 Revolutions Webcast
Notes from Seven Revolutions Webcast by Erik Peterson, Senior Vice President, Center for Strategic and International Studies See also: Global Strategy Institute and GSI Blog Intro Saint Exupery – “… your task is not to foresee the future, but rather to enable it.” Inverse correlation between leadership responsibilities and the capacity to plan and lead…
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Naming and Knowledge-Making
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This recent article from eSchool News caught my attention and gave me pause to think about the course I am designing for the fall, ENG 460. Top News – Google unveils online reference tool For better or worse, Wikipedia–the online reference site that lets anyone add to its ever-growing body of knowledge–has changed the nature…
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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…