Category: Social Networking
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Welcome IWP Colleauges
This morning, I am looking forward to a conversation with colleagues from the Indiana Writing Project about the ways that I use blogging and Twitter as a writer during their Advanced Institute: Get Your Write On! My colleague Susanna Benko will be getting the conversation started, and then I will be joining in to answer some…
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Live, Learn, and Thrive
Though I first met Meenoo Rami before a National Writing Project retreat in January 2011, it was over that long weekend that my wife, Sara, and I were able to talk with her about a new venture she was beginning, #engchat. I was intrigued by her idea that a weekly chat could be something interesting…
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Edutopia Article and Talks with Teachers Podcast
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…
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Examining Digital Learning Day
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…
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Making a Change: From Wikis to Social Networking in ENG 315
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…
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Teaching Participatory Media and Democracy (AERA, Part 4)
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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The “Tweet Aloud” as a Tool for Comprehending Digital Texts
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…
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School Reform, Digital Learning, Online Privacy, and Food Waste
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.…
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Designing PD Experiences: Can You RELATe?
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…
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Computers and Writing 2011 – Day 1
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…