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The “Tweet Aloud” as a Tool for Comprehending Digital Texts

Apr 25, 2012

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in Documentary, Genre Study, Hybrid Learning, New Literacies, Online Learning, Online Reading, Parody, Professional Development, Reflections, Social Networking, Teaching

Thanks to Tracy Mercier (@vr2ltch) for capturing my unfolding thought process as I responded to The Majestic Plastic Bag — and invited others to do the same — during an #engchat conversation about digital mentor texts on April 23rd. I think I may have coined a new phrase, at least in the pedagogical sense, mashing…

Reflections on Co-Facilitating a Digital Writing Workshop

Mar 4, 2012

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Troy Hicks

in Collaboration, Digital Storytelling, Digital Writing Workshop, Presentations, Professional Development, PSA, Reflections, Teaching, Writing

As a part of my day at the “Write to Learn: New World, New Literacies” conference yesterday, I had the wonderful opportunity to lead a keynote, do a breakout session on using mobile devices for digital composition (see this Google Doc for many links), and then do a three-hour writing workshop with fellow teacher/author Penny…

School Reform, Digital Learning, Online Privacy, and Food Waste

Feb 26, 2012

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Troy Hicks

in Curation, Fair Use, Media and Pop Culture, NWP, Online Identity, P2PU, Presentations, Professional Development, Social Networking, Teachers Teaching Teachers

Here we are with another month having passed us by and it seems like I’m struggling with a number of issues related to digital learning, in some senses, but more broadly on issues of school reform and how we will ever be able to set the ship of education sailing in the right direction again.…

Digital Mentor Text #3: “The Power of Words”

Jan 10, 2012

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Troy Hicks

in Copyright, Creative Commons, Digital Mentor Texts, Digital Storytelling, Digital Writing Workshop, Genre Study, Imitation

My third contribution to the digital mentor text series centers on the idea of creating a short, live action film. As I mentioned in my post last week, and Franki reiterated, so many times in video production we give students the camera and simply hope that something good comes from it. As (digital) writers, we…

A Creative Summer

Jul 21, 2011

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Troy Hicks

in Collaboration, Creative Commons, Digital Photography, Digital Storytelling, MSU, Multiliteracies, Presentations, Reflections, Teaching, Writing

Over the past few weeks, I have been fortunate enough to teach in MSU’s MA in Ed Tech program here in Rouen, France. With the inspiration of Leigh Graves Wolf and Punya Mishra, one of the major foci of the program is on creativity. As I think about how to be more creative in teaching my own…

Designing PD Experiences: Can You RELATe?

Jul 13, 2011

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Troy Hicks

in Collaboration, MSU, News and Notes, Professional Development, Reflections, Social Networking, Teaching, TPACK, Virtual Learning

This afternoon, second year students in MSU’s Master of Arts in Educational Technology presented a conference – in person and virtually – for their teaching colleagues: RELATe (Rouen Educational Leadership and Technology Conference, #relate11). This conference comes in the middle of the 4 week summer program, and is one of the main projects for Year 2…

Computers and Writing 2011 – Day 1

May 21, 2011

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Troy Hicks

in Assessment, Computers and Writing, Notes from Other Presentations, Social Networking, Teaching, Writing

Random notes and ideas from day one at Computers and Writing 2011: Opening Town Hall Susan Antlitz — how and why do we want interactive spaces for teaching? Sharon Cogdill — how do technologies control us? Bradley Dilger — reading and writing code, using small amounts of code to attain big results Patricia Freitag Ericsson…

Wikispaces announces free wikis for higher ed

Feb 25, 2011

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Troy Hicks

in CRWP, Digital Writing Workshop, ENG 315, English Education, News and Notes, Professional Development, Wiki

For those of you who know my teaching and writing, you know that I am a fan of wikis, in particular of Wikispaces. From my ENG 315 course to the Chippewa River Writing Project, from my own wiki full of digital writing resources to the wiki for my book, I use their wikis all the…

Catching My Breath After #engchat

Jan 3, 2011

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Troy Hicks

in Assessment, Cyber Infrastructure, Digital Writing Workshop, English Education, Gaming, News and Notes, Presentations, Professional Development, Reflections, Social Networking, Teaching

So, I just finished hosting the lightening round of Tweeting that is know as #engchat (wiki link). I sat down sat down at Panera with my bread bowl at about 6:45, thinking that I would have time to eat and follow a casual conversation. An hour later, there were so many great ideas that emerged…

Trial Run on Voice Dictation Software

Nov 9, 2010

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Troy Hicks

in Blogging, Misc. Debris, New Literacies, News and Notes, Writing

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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