Category: Digital Writing Workshop
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Brief Review of Webb and Rozema’s “Literature and the Web”
Earlier this summer, Allen Webb and Robert Rozema published their text through Heinemann, Literature and the Web: Reading and Responding with New Technologies. I received a copy as a gift, and just got a chance to read it over Labor Day. Besides thanking the two of them for mentioning my blog in the book, I…
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Reflections on Project WRITE’s Summer Institute
Today marked the end of our Project WRITE summer institute, and there were both smiles and tears to be found amongst the many of us who shared our writing this morning and our professional learning this afternoon. My partner, project leader Liz Webb, structured an amazing week, given all that we had to do from…
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Naming and Knowledge-Making
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This recent article from eSchool News caught my attention and gave me pause to think about the course I am designing for the fall, ENG 460. Top News – Google unveils online reference tool For better or worse, Wikipedia–the online reference site that lets anyone add to its ever-growing body of knowledge–has changed the nature…
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Reconsidering the “Grammar of Schooling” in a Digital Age
Tom Hanson from Open Education recently emailed me and alerted me to a post about technology infrastructure and professional development in schools. How Do We Ensure Our Schools Are Staffed with Technologically Savvy Teachers — Open Education Unfortunately, in many schools and for many teachers, the above five suggestions simply are not happening on a…
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Notes from Three Digital Storytelling Sessions
This week, I am at SITE 2008, preparing for a presentation on Project WRITE tomorrow. Today, I will try to blog from some of the sessions (as wifi will allow). Here are three sessions on digital storytelling that I attended this morning. (I will also cross-post on the Using Technology to Tell Stories Blog): An…
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Press Release: Open Yale Courses
Like MIT’s Open Course Ware, Yale is moving some of its content online and making it publicly available with a Creative Commons license. As a professor and digital writer, I applaud this move and hope that I can encourage my university, CMU, to move into that direction, too. Below is a copy of the press…
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Thoughts on Technology and Literacy Professional Development
Last week, a number of RCWP teachers met to plan professional development for the 2007-08 school year. The meetings went well, as we discussed a number of issues about how and why we should be doing technology/writing PD and we all agreed that we needed to make the sessions compelling to teachers in terms of…
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Engaging Writers with Interactive Genre Samples and Peer Review
The folks at UofT are at it again, and this project looks to be quite useful for writing teachers who are beginning to think about how technology can be useful for more than just web searching: iWRITE is web-enabled courseware developed at the University of Toronto by Margaret Procter and colleagues to support the use…
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Students Researching Online
Paul has invited me to be part of an upcoming Teachers Teaching Teachers show about students doing research online. Check out the Google Notebook for the show to get a sense of what will be happening and let me know if you have things that you want to add to it. My interest in this…