Category: Crafting Digital Writing
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Literacy Research Association Webinar
This afternoon at 2:00 PM EST, I will be participating in the Literacy Research Association’s webinar series. Today’s topic is Writing and Multimodality and I am looking forward to the conversation. Here are the slides and handout that I will be sharing: Hicks LRA Webinar Slides (PDF) Hicks and Perrin – Writing Dimensions Chart (PDF) Please join in…
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Interview on iPad Educators
My thanks to Steve Bambury and Sabba Quidwai for featuring me in an interview on their site, iPad Educators. Their archive of 2013 interviews is impressive, and I hope that my comments help get many teachers inspired to integrate digital writing into their classes this year! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons…
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Updates from Recent Collegial Conversations
Over the past few months, I’ve continue to have wonderful opportunities to speak at conferences and workshops, publish my work, and then share in conversations with fellow teachers. Two conversations in particular stand out as we had for the end of the calendar year. First, Kristen Turner and I were contacted earlier this fall by…
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Create, Compose, Connect Blog
My friend and colleague, Jeremy Hyler, and I have created a new blog for our upcoming book. So, please take a minute to subscribe to Create, Compose, Connect! Reading, Writing, and Learning with Digital Tools and look for the book to come out in March 2014. We also plan to have a wiki associated with the book,…
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Two New Articles for Teacher Educators and Parents
In the past two weeks, I’ve had to wonderful opportunities for writing, one through my colleague Todd Finley via Edutopia, and the other from a group of English educators via their Writers Who Care blog. Here is a brief preview from each, as well as links to the originals. Engaging Pre-Service Teachers in Authentic Writing…
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Keynote Presentation from the Discovery Educators Network Fall 2013 Fall Virtual Conference
Keynote Presentation from the Discovery Educators Network Fall 2013 Fall Virtual Conference Thanks to the many educators who joined in the conversation this past weekend as I presented “Mixing Sources, Amplifying Voices: Crafting Writing in an Information Age.” Here is the description, and the archived version of the keynote. As the inputs continue to multiply,…
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My Digital Reading Practices, Part 5
In response to one of my earlier posts this week, Will Richardson asked: So without going down the rabbit hole completely, how do you decide what feeds to read, which Flipboard magazines to sub, which Twitter users to trust enough to follow, etc.? It seems like there’s a whole ‘nother layer to “preparing to read”…
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What I’ve Done on Summer Vacation (So Far)
Over the past few weeks, I have had the good fortune of facilitating our 2013 Chippewa River Writing Project and participating in a number of Google Hangouts where I have talked about my new book, Crafting Digital Writing. I’ve gathered all those videos up and posted them on a page of the book’s companion wiki.…
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NWP Crafting Digital Writing Webinar
Thanks to my many friends and colleagues who joined in our conversation yesterday about my new book, Crafting Digital Writing, as well as the professional development experiences that they are creating this summer around the book. It is both exciting and humbling to know that so many other writing project sites are engaged in these…