Category: Crafting Digital Writing
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Digital Mentor Text #6: Feminist Frequency
One last post here on digital mentor texts for the week, with some time to read and reflect planned for the weekend. I have to admit, my original plan to end the week was an “oldie, but goodie” (we can we consider 2007 “old,” at least in YouTube terms, right?): The Machine is Us/ing Us by Michael…
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Digital Mentor Text #5: “Changing Education Paradigms”
As we continue to look at professionally produced videos as digital mentor texts, the fifth video genre that I want to explore is what I would, for lack of better term, call “infotainment with a creative twist.” I mean this less in the sense of “soft journalism,” as described in this Wikipedia entry, and more…
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Digital Mentor Text #4: “Size Matters Not”
Here we are, midweek, in our series on mentor texts in the digital writing workshop, and I’m feeling just a bit left out in the sense that I’ve chosen to focus on professional mentor texts in that I am not commenting on student work like Bill, Katie, Kevin, Tony and Franki are. The thinking on these topics so far…
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Digital Mentor Text #3: “The Power of Words”
My third contribution to the digital mentor text series centers on the idea of creating a short, live action film. As I mentioned in my post last week, and Franki reiterated, so many times in video production we give students the camera and simply hope that something good comes from it. As (digital) writers, we…
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Digital Mentor Text #2: Dove’s “Evolution”
For the second professionally created digital mentor text, I will focus on Dove’s Evolution Video, part of their Campaign for Real Beauty. (This version posted is from the director, which doesn’t allow for embedding; the version below is another one that does allow embedding, although it isn’t as high of quality, despite the name. Sorry). As with…
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Digital Mentor Text #1: “The Majestic Plastic Bag”
There are already some great conversations getting started about mentor texts in the digital writing workshop, and I have lots of reading to catch up on! Before I share my thoughts on the first video, I have to say that I am truly humbled to see how the ideas that I have been thinking about,…
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Digital Mentor Texts Preview
This will be a busy weekend of writing as I prep for our series on mentor texts in the digital writing workshop. I would like to say that I can write most of these posts as the week progresses, but my past history as a blogger (being somewhat irregular in my posting patterns) as well…
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Opening the Conversation on Digital Mentor Texts
Just about a week from now, a number of us will be blogging about mentor texts in the digital writing workshop. Inspired by this announcement and reflecting on her own experience with integrating digital writing into her work as a librarian, Buffy Hamilton offered me many things to think about in a recent blog post…
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Collaborative Blog Series: Mentor Texts in the Digital Writing Workshop
To kick off the new year, Franki Sibberson has gathered a number of us together to create a collaborative series of blog posts around the idea of mentor texts in the digital writing workshop. Here, in part, is the announcement from her blog, Lots of us included our thinking in our sessions at NCTE 2011 but then…
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A Creative Summer
Over the past few weeks, I have been fortunate enough to teach in MSU’s MA in Ed Tech program here in Rouen, France. With the inspiration of Leigh Graves Wolf and Punya Mishra, one of the major foci of the program is on creativity. As I think about how to be more creative in teaching my own…