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Edutopia Article and Talks with Teachers Podcast

Mar 25, 2014

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in Interviews, Podcast, Professional Development, Reflections, Sabbatical, Social Networking, Teaching, Writing

This past week, I’ve had two pieces enter the educational social media space. First, my blog post for Eduoptia, “Feeding Our Students’ Reading Interests with RSS,” came out last Friday, March 21st. In it, I “reiterate the power of RSS as a tool for active reading” and recommend using Feedly and Flipboard as two great…

Updates from Recent Collegial Conversations

Dec 17, 2013

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Troy Hicks

in Assessment, Best Practice, Blogging, Collaboration, Conferring and Response, Digital Writing Workshop, Hybrid Learning, News and Notes, Professional Development, Reflections, Sabbatical, Teaching, TPACK, Writing

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…

Create, Compose, Connect Blog

Dec 1, 2013

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Troy Hicks

in Blogging, Books, News and Notes

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,…

Two New Articles for Teacher Educators and Parents

Nov 4, 2013

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Troy Hicks

in Blogging, Collaboration, ENG 315, English Education, Methods, News and Notes, Professional Development, Reflections, Sabbatical, Teaching, Writing

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…

My Digital Reading Practices, Part 5

Sep 20, 2013

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Troy Hicks

in Books, Collaboration, Comments, Curation, Digital Reading, Educational Research, English Education, Internet Research, News and Notes, Online Reading, Reading in a Digital Age, Reflections, Writing

In response to one of my earlier posts this week, Will Richardson asked: So without going down the rabbit hole completely, how do you decide what feeds to read, which Flipboard magazines to sub, which Twitter users to trust enough to follow, etc.? It seems like there’s a whole ‘nother layer to “preparing to read”…

Examining Digital Learning Day

Feb 3, 2013

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Troy Hicks

in CCSS, Education Reform, Hybrid Learning, NCTE, New Literacies, New Media, News and Notes, NWP, Online Learning, Social Networking

As with all educational initiatives and fads, I strongly encourage everyone participating in the Digital Learning Day celebrations this week to do some homework about the history of the day itself, as well as some of its corporate, foundation, and “core” partners (which, for the record, include the two professional organizations I call home: NWP…

Citelighter Releases New Features

Jan 17, 2013

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Troy Hicks

in Citation and Plagiarism, Curation, Internet Research, News and Notes

As I have stated before, I generally don’t do product endorsements, but once in a great while there is something that comes along that I think has great value for teachers and students as digital writers. Citelighter is one of those tools. I found out about Citelighter last summer, and used it as a tool…

Social Network “Fail” Leads to A Renewed Approach to ENG 315

Jan 12, 2013

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Troy Hicks

in CMU, ENG 315, English Education, Methods, News and Notes, Professional Development, Teaching, Wiki

Another semester began this week, and I have been updating my syllabus and wiki site for ENG 315. Last semester, I was quite surprised and delighted by the number of you who asked me about my Wikispaces to Edmodo shift. Well, we learn from our failures, right? This is one that taught me a great…

Making a Change: From Wikis to Social Networking in ENG 315

Sep 17, 2012

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Troy Hicks

in CMU, ENG 315, Professional Development, Social Networking, Teaching, Wiki

For the first time in five years, I am starting an ENG 315 course without using a wiki and, instead, will be relying on Edmodo as the primary space for communicating with my students. This is a big pedagogical shift for me, one that (to be honest) invoked a little bit of healthy anxiety when…

Teaching Participatory Media and Democracy (AERA, Part 4)

May 6, 2012

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Troy Hicks

in AERA, Educational Research, Media and Pop Culture, Notes from Other Presentations, Online Identity, Professional Development, Reflections, Social Networking

Let’s begin with the critique of this panel’s main premise, that social media is transforming civic education and participatory democracy. That critique was the what discussant Joel Westheimer (University of Ottawa) offered. From his perspective, the technologies that allow us to use social media — the mobile web with apps, the ability to find, share, and…

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