Category: Digital Writing Workshop
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Notes from Danielle Nicole DeVoss’s Opening Keynote at NWP’s “Digital Is…”
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…
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Third Episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers: Conferring and Response to Digital Writing
Teachers Teaching Teachers: Conferring and Response in the Digital Writing WorkshopOctober 14, 2009 In this final episode of our three part series, please join Troy Hicks, author of The Digital Writing Workshop, and Director of the Chippewa River Writing Project at Central Michigan University, as we continue exploring the principles and practices described in the…
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Do You Use 3×5 Cards? Rethinking the Research Process
This past weekend, our department chair received an email from a local high school English teacher who asked, in short, should they be teaching students how to do a “traditional” research paper — including the use of 3×5 note cards — because some of his colleagues are strong supporters of it and others consider it…
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Teachers Teaching Teachers — Episode 2: Exploring Author’s Craft
Teachers Teaching Teachers: Exploring Author’s Craft in the Digital Writing Workshop October 7, 2009 In this second episode of our three part series, please join Troy Hicks, author of The Digital Writing Workshop, and Director of the Chippewa River Writing Project at Central Michigan University, as we continue exploring the principles and practices described in…
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Upcoming Series on Teachers Teaching Teachers
Each Wednesday for the next three weeks, I will be hosting a series of episodes that invite teachers highlighted in the book on for conversations about teaching in the digital writing workshop. Here is the announcement for this week’s webcast: Teachers Teaching Teachers: Choice and Inquiry in the Digital Writing Workshop September 30, 2009 This…
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Announcing MIT’s International Journal of Learning and Media
Today, I received an exciting announcement from Kellie Bramlet with MIT Press Journals. In addition to the series of books that they released last year with a Creative Commons license, they are now offering the following new journal: The International Journal of Learning and Media MIT Press, in cooperation with The Monterey Institute for Technology…
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Reflections on EduCon 2.1
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…
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Clearing Up Copyright Confusion Session
Copyright Confusion Session Kristin Hokanson with Renee Hobbs Exercising fair use demands an expanded conception of literacy that includes mass media, popular culture, and communication skills Copyright confusion — the end has arrived with the Code of Best Practices for Fair Use Overview video on fair use Purpose of copyright: to promote creativity, innovation, and…
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Personal Technology Learning and the Teaching of Writing
Today, I will be introducing my ENG 315 pre-service teachers to the idea of developing their “digital teaching persona” and thinking critically about why and how to use technology in their personal technology learning and to become better teachers of writing. Each semester, I face the act of balancing the introduction of a number of…