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More Updates from AILA: Notes Visual Literacy and the Digital Workplace

Sep 12, 2015

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in Academic Life, Conferences, Educational Research, Literacy, Multiliteracies, New Literacies, New Media, News and Notes, Professional Development, Reflections, Writing

Here are some notes from the first keynote was from Wibke Weber, in her talk about “Fusing words and images — new forms of public storytelling.” In recent years, the rise of multimedia creates a complex milieu of words and images; they must be seen as equal partners in meaning making Data visualizations In the…

Updates from AILA Junior Researchers Meeting

Sep 11, 2015

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Troy Hicks

in Academic Life, Assessing Students’ Digital Writing, Books, Conferences, Educational Research, News and Notes, Presentations, Professional Development, Teaching, Writing

This week, I have had the good fortune of presenting a keynote at the 7th Junior Researchers Meeting in Applied Linguistics, sponsored by the International Association of Applied Linguistics. I focused my keynote yesterday on both the work that I have done with my NWP colleagues to produce Assessing Students’ Digital Writing, as well as my…

Summer Institute, Stillness, and (Digital) Storytelling

Jul 8, 2015

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Troy Hicks

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…

Reflecting on Digital English in Taiwan

Jun 12, 2015

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Troy Hicks

in Academic Life, Assessment, Copyright, English Education, Fair Use, Internet Research, Literacy, News and Notes, Reflections, Shih Chien, Teaching, Writing

With a little bit of time in Tokyo’s Narita Airport, I figured I should try to capture some of my thinking about teaching my Digital English Learning course at Shih Chien University (USC) in Taipei, Taiwan. As expected, the three weeks have disappeared already, and we focused conversations and class activities on issues such as online privacy, creating a professional…

Teaching Digital English in Taiwan

Jun 1, 2015

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Troy Hicks

in Academic Life, News and Notes, Shih Chien, Social Networking, Teaching, Writing

The beginning of a new month finds me in the the midst of the new teaching experience; for the first time ever, I am teaching a class overseas to students who are non-native English speakers. My course, dubbed Digital English Learning, is a three-week, two-credit intensive course for undergraduates at Shih Chien University (USC) in Taipei, Taiwan. In January,…

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…

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