Category: Blogging
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Resource Round Up
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…
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Updates from Recent Collegial Conversations
Over the past few months, I’ve continue to have wonderful opportunities to speak at conferences and workshops, publish my work, and then share in conversations with fellow teachers. Two conversations in particular stand out as we had for the end of the calendar year. First, Kristen Turner and I were contacted earlier this fall by…
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Create, Compose, Connect Blog
My friend and colleague, Jeremy Hyler, and I have created a new blog for our upcoming book. So, please take a minute to subscribe to Create, Compose, Connect! Reading, Writing, and Learning with Digital Tools and look for the book to come out in March 2014. We also plan to have a wiki associated with the book,…
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Two New Articles for Teacher Educators and Parents
In the past two weeks, I’ve had to wonderful opportunities for writing, one through my colleague Todd Finley via Edutopia, and the other from a group of English educators via their Writers Who Care blog. Here is a brief preview from each, as well as links to the originals. Engaging Pre-Service Teachers in Authentic Writing…
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Trial Run on Voice Dictation Software
This is the first blog post but I am composing not through the tips of my fingers (mostly), but through my own voice. I’ve long been interested in dictation software, and I have had some experience using Dragon NaturallySpeaking in the past, I was never really a fan. By the time it would take to…
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Teaching Blogging with Kathi Yancey
Today, I am at Fordham University, presenting at their summer literacy institute focusing on 21st Century Literacies. I am honored to have the opportunity to present with Kathi Yancey, and she is currently in the middle of her session about “Blogging Alive,” asking participants to think about the purposes and audiences for blogging. She began…
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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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Notes from “Partnering Students, Parents, and Teachers Through Technology”
The second in a series of workshops from NWPM colleagues at MRA 2008, these are notes from Portland Middle School teachers Amanda and Garth Cornwell’s session on “Partnering Students, Parents, and Teachers Through Technology.” Begin with questions from the audience: How to get younger students to access technology on their own? How do parents react,…