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Reflections on Project WRITE’s Summer Institute

Aug 8, 2008

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Today marked the end of our Project WRITE summer institute, and there were both smiles and tears to be found amongst the many of us who shared our writing this morning and our professional learning this afternoon. My partner, project leader Liz Webb, structured an amazing week, given all that we had to do from…

Naming and Knowledge-Making

Jul 26, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Copyright, Creative Commons, ENG 460, New Media, News and Notes, Open Content, Peer Review, Teaching, Wiki, Writing

This recent article from eSchool News caught my attention and gave me pause to think about the course I am designing for the fall, ENG 460. Top News – Google unveils online reference tool For better or worse, Wikipedia–the online reference site that lets anyone add to its ever-growing body of knowledge–has changed the nature…

April Showers Bring Me Back from the Blogging Drought

Apr 9, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Bright Ideas 2008, ENG 315, English Education, Internet Research, Media and Pop Culture, Presentations, Social Networking

March was like a lion for me… beginning, middle, and end. I wish there was a better excuse, but that’s the long and short of it. Conferences, prepping my portfolio for my annual review, teaching, grading, etc. OK, enough of that. My purpose tonight is to just capture some thinking on a presentation that Rob…

Notes from “Partnering Students, Parents, and Teachers Through Technology”

Mar 16, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Blogging, MRA 2008, Notes from Other Presentations, NWP, NWPM, Teaching, Wiki

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,…

Note from “Blogging — Maximizing Writer’s Notebooks with a 21st Century Dimension”

Mar 16, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Blogging, MRA 2008, Notes from Other Presentations, NWP, NWPM, Writing

Here are notes from my Crossroads Writing Project colleagues, Lavon Jonson and Sonja Mack: “Blogging — Maximizing Writer’s Notebooks with a 21st Century Dimension.” Background Bringing blogging into the traditional process of using a writers notebook Writing with your students encourages them to write (Graves, etc.) Blog Growth In April 2007, 70 million blogs, 90%…

Three More SITE Presentations: Pre-Service Teachers, Wikis, and Social Networking

Mar 6, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Notes from Other Presentations, Professional Development, SITE 2008, Social Networking, Wiki

Reflective Digital Media in Teacher Education Timo Portimojarvi, University of Tampere, Finland Developing curriculum of teacher education Cultural view of curriculum and profession Historical, cultural, and political objectives Teachers are social and cultural actors The development of the curriculum is a practice-based research process Three-level curriculum model Personal level – autobiographical and individual process of…

Two More SITE Sessions: Digital Storytelling

Mar 6, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Digital Storytelling, Notes from Other Presentations, SITE 2008

A Digital Storytelling Implementation Experience with Early Childhood Students Aslihan Kocaman-Karoglu, Middle East Technical University, Turkey What is digital storytelling? Story telling as an ancient tradition; digital storytelling integrates visual, interactive, and reiterative with constructive ideas “combining the art of telling stories with some mixture of digital graphics, text, recorded audio narration, video…” B. Robin,…

Two More SITE Sessions: Digital Photography and Social Networking

Mar 5, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Digital Photography, Notes from Other Presentations, SITE 2008, Social Networking

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: The Use of Digital Photography to Enhance Literacy Development in Young Children Lauren Cummins, Regina Rees, and Kelly Bacroft, Youngstown State University What do we know about literacy development? Young children are natural storytellers, and they “write” stories through pictures Children use pictures to help them remember about…

Notes from Three Digital Storytelling Sessions

Mar 5, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Copyright, Digital Storytelling, Notes from Other Presentations, SITE 2008

This week, I am at SITE 2008, preparing for a presentation on Project WRITE tomorrow. Today, I will try to blog from some of the sessions (as wifi will allow). Here are three sessions on digital storytelling that I attended this morning. (I will also cross-post on the Using Technology to Tell Stories Blog): An…

Brown Bag Presentation: Multiliteracies in Composition

Feb 25, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Assessment, CMU, Composition, Multiliteracies, New Media, Presentations, Professional Development, Reflections, Wiki, Writing

Last Friday, I was invited to lead a “brown bag” session for my English department’s composition program. Titled “Multiliteracies in Composition,” we focused our pre-reading on an article about a second-year college composition course developed at Michigan Tech called “Revisions.” Details can be found in the following article: Lynch, Dennis A., and Anne Frances Wysocki.…

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