Category: Digital Writing Tools
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RCWP Wiki Featured in Wikispaces Blog
Have I mentioned before that I love Wikispaces? If not, you are hearing it now: Wikispaces Blog » Blog Archive » Who Are You and What Are You Doing? Who Are You and What Are You Doing? October 2nd, 2007 by sarah In our recent mailing, we asked to hear from you – how you…
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IMing Back in the News
It’s been about a year since I’ve seen an article like this pop up — perhaps it has to do with going back to school and all the negative ideas that technology can bring in relation to the state of our language and culture: The walls between the school and the cellphone or computer screen…
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Thoughts on Technology and Literacy Professional Development
Last week, a number of RCWP teachers met to plan professional development for the 2007-08 school year. The meetings went well, as we discussed a number of issues about how and why we should be doing technology/writing PD and we all agreed that we needed to make the sessions compelling to teachers in terms of…
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Pondering the Curricular Value of Digital Writing
A few weeks ago in Chico, I was fortunate enough to meet John Bishop from the other RCWP, Red Clay Writing Project located near Atlanta, and we had a splashing good time there! Since then, I have been following his blog and I am particularly interested in the recent post that he created about exploring…
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Digital Writing Wiki
Of the many great things happening at the CEE Summit, I have had many opportunities to talk to other English Educators and find out about their online lives. As we prepare for the second panel discussion to start, I am sitting with Carl Young, editor of the CITE Journal and blogger of the SITE blog…
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Teachers’ Online Personas (Discussion from My Dissertation Defense)
Today was my dissertation defense, and I am happy to say that I passed with no major revisions. Hooray! There are still some minor things that I need to touch up, but that is to be expected. So, my hope is that I will have this all wrapped up and turned in to the grad…
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“Using Technology to Tell Stories” Blog
Bonnie, Kevin, Tonya, Mary, and I are blogging at the “Using Technology to Tell Stories” blog. Thanks to Bonnie and Kevin for getting the ball rolling on this. We are focusing much of our attention on digital storytelling, but there are other threads evolving, too. So, check it out. Also, just to continue the read/write…
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Telling the Technology Story in K-12 Schools
The past week or so has been crazy. Yes, busy crazy for me personally, for sure. But, I am talking about another kind of craziness. I am talking about the number of teachers that I have talked to who have been fighting filters, trying to get equipment to work, and generally trying to make meaningful…