Category: Books
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Exploring the Design of a Digital Writing Assignment
During the month of May, my friend and Chippewa River Writing Project colleague Beth Gates has been working with her 11th grade students on a digital writing assignment. Many years ago, she began teaching a digital essay based on an idea from Jim Burke and shared on the English Companion Ning. I featured Beth’s work…
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Conversation with NCTE Colleagues for Digital Learning Day
As we near Digital Learning Day 2016, coming up this Wednesday, I was fortunate enough to be invited by NCTE to speak with Executive Director Emily Kirkpatrick and my colleagues Bill Bass, Franki Sibberson, and Kristen Turner. Though I am grateful that we are turning our national attention to digital learning on this day, I…
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Three Rs of the Modern Era: Research Writing Rewired
Next Monday at 7:00 PM EST, I will be hosting an Educator Innovator webinar, “Three Rs of the Modern Era: Research Writing Rewired,” with my colleague and co-author, Dawn Reed, as well as a number of students who participated in the project described in the book. Until then, check out our playlist of videos featured…
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DigiWriMo Post on Infographics
Earlier this week, Kevin Hodgson — one of the hosts of this year’s DigiWriMo — shared my guest post on “Navigating in the Age of Infographics.” Here is a brief snippet from my post: In their book, Everything’s an Argument, Andrea Lunsford, John Ruszkiewicz, and Keith Walters begin with the simple premise: “[O]ne Fact of…
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Hosting #engchat Next Week
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in Assessment, Best Practice, Books, Connected Learning, Connected Reading, Digital Reading, Educational Research, English Education, Hybrid Learning, Internet Research, Literacy, Mobile Learning, Multiliteracies, New Literacies, New Media, News and Notes, Online Learning, Online Reading, Professional Development, Reading in a Digital Age, Reflections, Teaching, WritingThis next Monday, Kristen Turner and I host #engchat for a conversation on Connected Reading. Here’s the announcement: Recently, a friend of Kristen’s on Facebook posted a GIF that showed the evolution of a desk. In 1980 the desk was covered with items: books, newspapers, magazines; a fax, phone, stapler and tape dispenser; a rolodex,…
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Updates from AILA Junior Researchers Meeting
This week, I have had the good fortune of presenting a keynote at the 7th Junior Researchers Meeting in Applied Linguistics, sponsored by the International Association of Applied Linguistics. I focused my keynote yesterday on both the work that I have done with my NWP colleagues to produce Assessing Students’ Digital Writing, as well as my…
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Rewiring Research on Teachers Teaching Teachers
This past week, I was able to join in a conversation with my good friend and colleague, Dawn Reed, on an episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers so we could talk about our forthcoming book, Research Writing Rewired: Lessons That Ground Students’ Digital Learning. Enjoy! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Changing the Field, One Teacher at a Time
This past week, two thoughtful teachers shared their insight on some of the work I have done with my colleague Kristen Turner. Knowing that what we have written is making a difference in the lives of teachers is, quite simply, amazing. So, I offer my thanks to these two edubloggers here. First, thanks to Cris Turple who shared…
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Introducing Assessing Students’ Digital Writing
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in Assessing Students’ Digital Writing, Assessment, Books, Collaboration, Connected Learning, Digital Is, Educational Research, English Education, Gaming, Literacy, Media and Pop Culture, Multiliteracies, New Literacies, New Media, News and Notes, NWP, Professional Development, Reflections, Teaching, WritingBy all measures, I am fortunate to work with so many incredible colleagues from the world of education, both K-12 and higher ed. Many times those collaborations happen in just a few hours, or a few says, and they then disappear. However, sometimes they last for months or even years, and they transform into something…
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Summer Institute, Stillness, and (Digital) Storytelling
We are in the middle of week three of our Chippewa River Writing Project’s Invitational Summer Institute, and I am sitting in the late afternoon calm of writing time. At this moment, eight of the seventeen of us are here composing various pieces, including our digital stories. The rest are scattered around our building, or…