Category: Fair Use

Reflecting on Digital English in Taiwan

Jun 12, 2015

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Troy Hicks

in Academic Life, Assessment, Copyright, English Education, Fair Use, Internet Research, Literacy, News and Notes, Reflections, Shih Chien, Teaching, Writing

With a little bit of time in Tokyo’s Narita Airport, I figured I should try to capture some of my thinking about teaching my Digital English Learning course at Shih Chien University (USC) in Taipei, Taiwan. As expected, the three weeks have disappeared already, and we focused conversations and class activities on issues such as online privacy, creating a professional…
School Reform, Digital Learning, Online Privacy, and Food Waste

Feb 26, 2012

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Troy Hicks

in Curation, Fair Use, Media and Pop Culture, NWP, Online Identity, P2PU, Presentations, Professional Development, Social Networking, Teachers Teaching Teachers

Here we are with another month having passed us by and it seems like I’m struggling with a number of issues related to digital learning, in some senses, but more broadly on issues of school reform and how we will ever be able to set the ship of education sailing in the right direction again.…
Digital Mentor Text #6: Feminist Frequency

Jan 13, 2012

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Troy Hicks

in Copyright, Digital Mentor Texts, Digital Writing Workshop, Fair Use, Journalism, Media and Pop Culture

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…
Digital Mentor Texts Preview

Jan 6, 2012

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Troy Hicks

in Copyright, Creative Commons, Digital Mentor Texts, Digital Writing Workshop, Fair Use, Media and Pop Culture, New Literacies, Teaching, Writing

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…
Fox News HackJam

Oct 16, 2011

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Troy Hicks

in Composition, Copyright, Creative Commons, English Education, Fair Use, Internet Research, Media and Pop Culture, New Literacies, New Media, News and Notes, NWP, Professional Development, Reflections, Teaching, Writing

At the WIDE-EMU Un-Conference, Andrea Zellner introduced us to Hackasuarus and the idea that we can remix websites as a form of digital writing and expression. So, given the very limited time that we had, I wanted to try to make something that was a political commentary. This was an interesting digital writing process, as…
Notes from Erin Reilly’s “Remix Culture for Learning” at SITE 2010

Mar 31, 2010

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Troy Hicks

in Assessment, Collaboration, Copyright, Creative Commons, English Education, Fair Use, Gaming, Graphic Novels, Internet Research, Media and Pop Culture, Multiliteracies, New Literacies, New Media, Notes from Other Presentations, Online Identity, Online Reading, Professional Development, SITE 2010, Social Networking

The Gap Between Life and Art: Remix Culture for Learning Erin Reilly, University of Southern California Project New Media Literacies Context of remix culture One in four online teens remix content that they find online (like songs, text, and images) and remix them into their own artistic creations Remixing media is a part of participatory…
Report from RCWP’s WIDE PATHS 2010

Feb 27, 2010

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Troy Hicks

in Choice and Inquiry, Collaboration, Composition, Copyright, Digital Storytelling, Digital Writing Workshop, English Education, Fair Use, Literacy, Media and Pop Culture, Multiliteracies, News and Notes, NWP, NWPM, Presentations, Professional Development, RCWP, Social Networking, Writing

This morning, I was fortunate enough to be invited “home” to present my session, “Creating Your Digital Writing Workshop” at Red Cedar Writing Project‘s WIDE PATHS II. Beyond the wonderful feeling of being “home” with about 30 colleagues from RCWP and sharing my book with them, I continue to be inspired by the amazing work…
Notes from “The Social Media Portfolio: Using Technology to Promote Meta-cognitive Skill Development” at NWP’s Digital Is

Nov 18, 2009

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Troy Hicks

in Assessment, Choice and Inquiry, Collaboration, Composition, Copyright, Digital Is, Fair Use, Literacy, New Literacies, New Media, Notes from Other Presentations, NWP, Social Networking, Teaching, Writing

The Social Media Portfolio: Using Technology to Promote Meta-cognitive Skill Development At NWP’s Digital Is Rafi Santo, Amana Kaskazi, and Shonell Richmond Global Kids 20 Years in existence and focusing on significant global issues Issues: Local to global and global to local understanding Leadership: Skills necessary to affect change Technology: How does new media contribute…
Notes from Danielle Nicole DeVoss’s Opening Keynote at NWP’s “Digital Is…”

Nov 18, 2009

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Troy Hicks

in Composition, Copyright, Creative Commons, Cyber Infrastructure, Digital Is, Digital Storytelling, Fair Use, Internet Research, Literacy, Media and Pop Culture, Multiliteracies, New Literacies, New Media, Notes from Other Presentations, NWP, Professional Development, Teaching, Writing

Danielle Nicole DeVoss asks us to think about what digital was then and is now… Digital is… Networked — we compose in networked spaces Collaborative — people are able to connect and create through these networks (LolCats) Multimodal — typography, kinetic type, digital stories Re-Mediated — taking a media object and recreating it so it…
Reflections on EduCon 2.1

Jan 26, 2009

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Troy Hicks

in Assessment, Collaboration, Copyright, EduCon, Fair Use, Professional Development, Reflections, Teaching

NOTE: This was written yesterday in the post-conference, pre-flight moments that I had on the train from downtown to the airport. Since my flight didn’t arrive in Lansing until about 1:30 AM last night, I was just now able to put the finishing touches on it. Hope it makes some sense… Sunday, January 25, 2009…