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Props for Wikispaces

Sep 23, 2008

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in Collaboration, News and Notes, Professional Development, Teaching, Wiki

Anyone who has ever been in one of my classes or workshops knows that I rely on Wikispaces for almost all of my teaching and professional development. Read more about their new K12 initiative in this article. A quarter million teachers to get free wikis | Gaming and Culture – CNET News A San Francisco…

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…

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,…

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…

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.…

An Update on Blogging, Podcasting, and Wikiing with Pre-Service Teachers

Feb 2, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Blogging, ENG 315, English Education, Methods, Multiliteracies, Professional Development, Project WRITE, Reflections, Teaching, Wiki, Writing

January has been a busy month for me as I have been coordinating field placements for my ENG 315 students and we have begun exploring the use of blogs, wikis, podcasts, and RSS in our teaching lives. When we began this work a few short weeks ago, only a handful of these pre-service teachers had…

RCWP Wiki Featured in Wikispaces Blog

Oct 10, 2007

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Troy Hicks

in Collaboration, News and Notes, Professional Development, RCWP, Wiki

Have I mentioned before that I love Wikispaces? If not, you are hearing it now: Wikispaces Blog » Blog Archive » Who Are You and What Are You Doing? Who Are You and What Are You Doing? October 2nd, 2007 by sarah In our recent mailing, we asked to hear from you – how you…

Digital Writing Wiki

Jun 2, 2007

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Troy Hicks

in CEE, New Media, Professional Development, Wiki, Writing

Of the many great things happening at the CEE Summit, I have had many opportunities to talk to other English Educators and find out about their online lives. As we prepare for the second panel discussion to start, I am sitting with Carl Young, editor of the CITE Journal and blogger of the SITE blog…

The Read/Write Web for Academic Advising

Feb 15, 2007

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Troy Hicks

in Blogging, IM, Presentations, Professional Development, Social Networking, Wiki

Of the four presentations that I have to do today, tomorrow, and Friday, there is one that I am really developing from the ground up and need to think through quite a bit. In thinking about how Mobile Social Software and other read/write web tools are impacting youth, this question will become increasingly important as…

Wikipedia links used to build smart reading lists – tech – 02 January 2007 – New Scientist Tech

Jan 9, 2007

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Troy Hicks

in News and Notes, Wiki

From the “so cool it is uncanny” department… Software that generates a list of reading material tailored to a person’s individual interests has been developed by a PhD student in the US. Alexander Wissner-Gross, a physics student at Harvard University, teaches a course to under-graduates student at his university. While preparing the reading list for…

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