Crafting Digital Writing – Page 15 – Digital Writing, Digital Teaching

Visions of Technology In English

Jan 22, 2007

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in Composition, Digital Storytelling, English Education, Media and Pop Culture, Multiliteracies, Professional Development

Tomorrow, I will be working with a colleague’s class of pre-service English teachers. He asked me to “offer this group is a vision or several visions of what is possible regarding technology and writing” and I can think of a few, but there are two rolling around in my mind right now. First, I return…

“It’s Not About the Technology…” (Usually)

Jan 16, 2007

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Troy Hicks

in Digital Storytelling, English Education, News and Notes, Professional Development, Second Life

So, a few things have happened in the last week that have me thinking about my belief that “it’s not about the technology, it’s about the literacy practices the technology enables.” As much as I do believe that, there is a certain point at which the technology has to be functional in order for the…

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…

Comments on Teachers Teaching Teachers Disucssion of “Appropriation”

Nov 30, 2006

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Troy Hicks

in Blogging, Comments, New Media, Social Networking

Although I wasn’t really able to join the conversation tonight through Skype, the Teachers Teaching Teachers crew asked a great question tonight: Do our blogs have a student-sponsored life of their own? Have our blog sites moved beyond Fisherâ€™s â€œnew literacy practices as sugarâ€ to allowing students to â€œcombine their concerns and self interest with…

Justifying Digital Reading and Writing

Nov 27, 2006

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Troy Hicks

in Assessment, Blogging, Composition, Educational Research, English Education, Multiliteracies, New Media, NWP, Professional Development, Social Networking, Wiki

Before the NWP Annual meeting, I had three separate conversations (one by email, one by phone, and one in person) with colleagues from the local, state, and national level about why and how to use digital reading and writing in their classrooms and for professional development. I had many more of these conversations at the…

Typo Generator

Nov 5, 2006

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Troy Hicks

in Blogging, Composition, Media and Pop Culture, Multiliteracies, New Media

Now, here is a great way to kill time and generate cool graphics for your blog: typoGenerator Interestingly enough, the warning at the bottom of this image says “the images used for generating may be subject to copyright.” Also interesting, as soon as I clicked away from the page, the temp image that was stored…

Blogs for Learning

Oct 28, 2006

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Troy Hicks

in Blogging, Educational Research, News and Notes, Professional Development

Thanks to the team at MSU’s Blogs for Learning for featuring my blog under their “User Submitted Blogs” list. This looks like it can become a great resource based on what they have described here: What is Blogs for Learning? Welcome to Blogs for Learning, an online resource about instructional blogging. The site provides students…

Teachers Teaching Teachers Webcast

Oct 19, 2006

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Troy Hicks

in NWP, Professional Development, Social Networking

Just a quick note to say that I’ve been enjoying the Teachers Teaching Teachers webcast for the past few weeks. Here is a piece of the write-up from last night’s episode. Check it out. Our conversation this evening began innocently enough with Gail Desler, the technology liaison for the Area 3 Writing Project in and…

Re: Does Wikipedia hurt scholarship?

Oct 10, 2006

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Troy Hicks

in Multiliteracies, News and Notes, Wiki

So, the wiki debate continues. In the latest issue of AFT’s American Teacher, the pro and con discussion of the month is about Wikipedia. Here, in very stark terms, are what I consider to be very traditional views about the academic research process (Anderson) juxtaposed with a more reasonable interpretation of research, collaboration, and the…

Thoughts on Morville’s “The Sociosemantic Web”

Oct 4, 2006

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Troy Hicks

in Educational Research, Multiliteracies, Social Networking

Today for Critical Studies, we read a chapter from Peter Morville‘s Ambient Findability, “The Sociosemantic Web.” This chapter suggests that taxonomies are out, folksonomies are in, yet (given the choice) Morville says, “I’ll take the ancient tree of knowledge over the transient leaves of popularity any day” (p. 139). That was the one line of…

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