Category: Books
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Notes from “Partnering Students, Parents, and Teachers Through Technology”
The second in a series of workshops from NWPM colleagues at MRA 2008, these are notes from Portland Middle School teachers Amanda and Garth Cornwell’s session on “Partnering Students, Parents, and Teachers Through Technology.” Begin with questions from the audience: How to get younger students to access technology on their own? How do parents react,…
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Note from “Blogging — Maximizing Writer’s Notebooks with a 21st Century Dimension”
Here are notes from my Crossroads Writing Project colleagues, Lavon Jonson and Sonja Mack: “Blogging — Maximizing Writer’s Notebooks with a 21st Century Dimension.” Background Bringing blogging into the traditional process of using a writers notebook Writing with your students encourages them to write (Graves, etc.) Blog Growth In April 2007, 70 million blogs, 90%…
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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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Two More SITE Sessions: Digital Storytelling
A Digital Storytelling Implementation Experience with Early Childhood Students Aslihan Kocaman-Karoglu, Middle East Technical University, Turkey What is digital storytelling? Story telling as an ancient tradition; digital storytelling integrates visual, interactive, and reiterative with constructive ideas “combining the art of telling stories with some mixture of digital graphics, text, recorded audio narration, video…” B. Robin,…
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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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Brown Bag Presentation: Multiliteracies in Composition
Last Friday, I was invited to lead a “brown bag” session for my English department’s composition program. Titled “Multiliteracies in Composition,” we focused our pre-reading on an article about a second-year college composition course developed at Michigan Tech called “Revisions.” Details can be found in the following article: Lynch, Dennis A., and Anne Frances Wysocki.…
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From Workshop to Classroom: The Problems of Enacting Professional Development
This past week, I was invited to present an introductory workshop on digital storytelling to a group of teachers in Alpena. Minus some minor glitches in figuring out file management with brand new jump drives, the session went well from both my perspective and that of the attendees. Exit comments were generally positive and, since…