Category: Social Networking
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Notes from “The Social Media Portfolio: Using Technology to Promote Meta-cognitive Skill Development” at NWP’s Digital Is
The Social Media Portfolio: Using Technology to Promote Meta-cognitive Skill Development At NWP’s Digital Is Rafi Santo, Amana Kaskazi, and Shonell Richmond Global Kids 20 Years in existence and focusing on significant global issues Issues: Local to global and global to local understanding Leadership: Skills necessary to affect change Technology: How does new media contribute…
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Reflecting on the Purposes of Digital Writing and Professional Development
Over the past few weeks, I have had a few opportunities to reexamine my thinking about the purposes of digital writing and professional development. As Sara begins her doctoral program at MSU and has started to share her own thinking through her “Connecting, Collaborating, Continuing to Learn” blog, it has given me pause to think…
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Back to School, Back to Digital Writing
Well, the summer has certainly slipped by, as they all tend to do, and I am now getting back in the swing of things. To that end, I have exciting news to share — the publication of my new Heinemann title, The Digital Writing Workshop. Building on the writing workshop principles of choice and inquiry,…
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Notes from “Using Social Media to Define the New Humanities”
Notes from “Using Social Media to Define the New Humanities” – Antonio Viva Thinking about new humanities Context, conversation, collaboration How do we educate our students for success in the web 2.0 world? Can we harness the power of social media to provide students with a vehicle for exploring and creating original content? Old School…
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San Antonio, Tech To Go, and Back to the Snow
Apologies in advance for what will be a long post here, as my “reflection in action” during the conference consisted more of trying to find free wifi and navigating the Riverwalk than it did of actually having time to sit down and think. I tried to break my thinking up by day, for what that’s…
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Engaging in the Discussion
Well, it is a bit hypocritical of me to post these links right now, as I have not had a chance to even check email until today, let alone become a part of these conversations. But, there are a few things going on right now that are worth checking out.First, I got an email about…
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Dr. Yong Zhao – Keynote Highlights
Highlights from the keynote address at the St. Clair RESA Symposium on 21st Century Learning August 13, 2008 Port Huron High School Yong Zhao, MSU Mistakes with technology and schools Solution seeking problems — we put technology in school, but the problems were not there or evident Trusting the wrong agent — Whose machine is…
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April Showers Bring Me Back from the Blogging Drought
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…
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Three More SITE Presentations: Pre-Service Teachers, Wikis, and Social Networking
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…
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Two More SITE Sessions: Digital Photography and 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…