Category: Books
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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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Teaching Blogging with Kathi Yancey
Today, I am at Fordham University, presenting at their summer literacy institute focusing on 21st Century Literacies. I am honored to have the opportunity to present with Kathi Yancey, and she is currently in the middle of her session about “Blogging Alive,” asking participants to think about the purposes and audiences for blogging. She began…
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Story on CRWP from The News @ Central
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From our site visit earlier this winter, the media and public relations team at CMU has put together an article and podcast about the Chippewa River Writing Project. I find it fitting that as we pursue digital writing within the project that the way in which it was announced to the CMU community comes in…
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Notes from “Digital Storytelling: Enhancing Language, Visual, and Media Literacies”
Digital Storytelling: Enhancing Language, Visual, and Media Literacies MRA 2009 Presentation Ledong Li, Tingfeng Luo, Wen Wu, Fan Zhang, Oakland University What’s Your Story? Stories Surround Us What is digital storytelling? Daniel Meadows: “short personal multimedia tales toldfrom the heart” Educational Use of Digital Storytelling Focus on specific topic and contain a particular point ofview…
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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…