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

Mar 6, 2008

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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.…

From Workshop to Classroom: The Problems of Enacting Professional Development

Feb 17, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Collaboration, Digital Storytelling, English Education, Presentations, Professional Development, Reflections

This past week, I was invited to present an introductory workshop on digital storytelling to a group of teachers in Alpena. Minus some minor glitches in figuring out file management with brand new jump drives, the session went well from both my perspective and that of the attendees. Exit comments were generally positive and, since…

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…

Notes and Reaction from “Growing Up Online”

Jan 23, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in IM, Media and Pop Culture, News and Notes, Online Identity, Social Networking

Here are some notes and reactions to the “Growing Up Online” special as it goes… Some initial introductions, showing students as deceptive about online activity and generally showing parents as luddites Scenes from schools, teachers claiming that they need to be “entertainers” and that it is difficult for students to focus and can not be…

Frontline’s “Growing Up Online” – Tuesday, January 22 @ 9:00

Jan 20, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in News and Notes, Online Identity, Social Networking

My friend Jim sent this along to me and I thought that it might be of interest to many of you, especially those of you who are parents. I am going to try to watch it and would be interested in hearing your thoughts and reactions to it. FRONTLINE: coming soon: growing up online |…

Another Economist Debate: Social Networking

Jan 16, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in News and Notes, Social Networking

Crazy couple of weeks here with classes starting. So, here is a post that is not really a post from me, but from the folks at the Economist. Enjoy the next round of debates! I saw all of your earlier posts about The Economist Debate Series and wanted to thank everyone for posting about our…

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