Category: Digital Writing Tools

Imagining a New Course: Our Digital Selves

Dec 26, 2016

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hickstro

in Academic Life, Citation and Plagiarism, CMU, Collaboration, Digital Writing Tools, Hybrid Learning, Mobile Learning, New Literacies, News and Notes, Online Learning, Open Content, Open Courses, Social Networking, Teaching, Writing

One of my relaxing and still intellectually engaging tasks for this holiday break is to write a proposal for an honors course at CMU. Designed as a first-year seminar for freshman honors students to get them engaged in critical thinking, inquiry, and sustained writing practices, each seminar must tackle a major issue relevant to students’ lives.…
Conversation about Connected Reading on LitBit Podcast

Nov 12, 2016

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Troy Hicks

in Annotation, Assessment, Best Practice, Books, Collaboration, Connected Learning, Connected Reading, Curation, Digital Reading, English Education, Hybrid Learning, Interviews, Mobile Learning, NCTE, New Literacies, News and Notes, Online Learning, Online Reading, Podcast, Professional Development, Research Writing Rewired, Teaching

Many thanks to Brooke Cunningham, creator of the LitBit podcast and a doctoral student in the University of Tennessee PhD in young adult literature program, for inviting Kristen Turner and me to share our thoughts on Connected Reading with her listeners. Please listen to and share the episode!
Posting, Probing, and Reflecting on Conversations with NowComment

Nov 10, 2016

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Troy Hicks

in Annotation, Best Practice, Collaboration, Connected Learning, Connected Reading, Digital Writing Tools, EDU 653, Hybrid Learning, Mobile Learning, Online Learning, Professional Development, Reflections, Teaching, Writing

So, I know I’m a little bit late to the web, image, and video annotation phenomenon that’s taken place over the last few years. I’ve talked a little bit about it in some of the pieces that I’ve written on Connected Reading, but I haven’t really been an avid user simply because it couldn’t quite…
DigiWriMo Post on Infographics

Nov 13, 2015

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Troy Hicks

in Collaboration, Digital Writing Tools, New Literacies, News and Notes, Professional Development, Writing

Earlier this week, Kevin Hodgson — one of the hosts of this year’s DigiWriMo — shared my guest post on “Navigating in the Age of Infographics.” Here is a brief snippet from my post: In their book, Everything’s an Argument, Andrea Lunsford, John Ruszkiewicz, and Keith Walters begin with the simple premise: “[O]ne Fact of…
Changing the Field, One Teacher at a Time

Aug 7, 2015

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Troy Hicks

in Best Practice, Books, Collaboration, Connected Learning, Connected Reading, Digital Reading, Digital Writing Tools, Educational Research, English Education, Literacy, New Literacies, News and Notes, Professional Development, Reading in a Digital Age, Reflections, Teaching, TPACK, Writing

This past week, two thoughtful teachers shared their insight on some of the work I have done with my colleague Kristen Turner. Knowing that what we have written is making a difference in the lives of teachers is, quite simply, amazing. So, I offer my thanks to these two edubloggers here. First, thanks to Cris Turple who shared…
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…
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…
Introducing Connected Reading

Apr 9, 2015

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Troy Hicks

in Assessment, Best Practice, Connected Learning, Connected Reading, Digital Reading, Educational Research, English Education, Hybrid Learning, Mobile Learning, New Literacies, New Media, News and Notes, Online Learning, Online Reading, Professional Development, Reading in a Digital Age, Social Networking, Teaching

This month marks the publication of my fifth book, a co-authored work with Kristen Hawley Turner entitled Connected Reading: Teaching Adolescent Readers in a Digital World. The research and writing process for this book took over two years, though it was well worth the effort. Combined, Kristen and I visited a dozen classrooms, interviewed nearly two…
Make Write Repeat: Free Webinar on March 30

Mar 21, 2015

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Troy Hicks

in Conferences, Connected Learning, Crafting Digital Writing, Create Compose Connect, Digital Writing Tools, Digital Writing Workshop, News and Notes, Professional Development, Teaching

In partnership with Chris Lehman, Laura Fleming, and their colleagues at the Educator Collaborative, I will be presenting a webinar this coming Monday, March 30, at 5:00 PM EST. You can participate in the live stream of the keynote for free by registering here. Also, as it happens, I will adapt this keynote into an…