Category: Books
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Digital Writing from Saskatoon Schools
During the 2013-14 school year, I was invited to work with teachers from Saskatoon Schools via webinar, including teacher-librarian Tamzen Kulyk. She and her students have created videos that document their learning through a digital writing workshop, and I am happy to share them here. [iframe]<iframe width=”640″ height=”360″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/_WV_OKgOhNY?list=UUFg-ZpDBtVhNa_DZg3_ElIg” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe>[/iframe] [iframe]<iframe width=”640″ height=”360″ src=”//www.youtube.com/embed/prUtx3qwKPs?rel=0″ frameborder=”0″…
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Keynote from Reinventing the Classroom 2014 Virtual Conference
My thanks to Steve Hargadon for an invitation to speak during the Reinventing the Classroom virtual conference last week. The archive of my webinar is available on YouTube. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Conversation with Carl Young’s Class
Last night, I had a Skype conversation with students of my friend and colleague, Carl Young, who are taking a course on teaching composition and reading The Digital Writing Workshop. It was a robust conversation, and they had really smart questions. I have, with permission, simply copied and pasted the text from their original wiki…
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New Podcast Series on BAM Radio’s Pulse Network
Having been a listener of BAM Radio for some time, I was happy to be invited to a conversation with Larry Ferlazzo and Alice Barr about effective implementation strategies for 1:1 programs. Also, I was honored to be asked to begin a new podcast series on BAM’s Pulse Network. Designed as a tool to help…
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WRAB III Wrap Up
This has been both a personally and professionally fulfilling week for me, as I was able to travel with colleagues from the US to participate in the Writing Research Across Borders III conference in Paris. Along with the sightseeing, which has been wonderful, the general spirit of inquiry and collegiality from around the world has…
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Fourth Post from SDRC “Hack and Yack” Series
This post was originally published on the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative blog on January 23, 2014. Over the past two weeks, we explored the big ideas behind digital reading and ebooks, and have looked at basic ebooks and enhanced ebooks. Today, we wrap up the series by thinking about the possibilities afforded by interactive ebooks.…
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Second Post from SDRC “Hack and Yack” Series
This post was originally published on the Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative blog on January 17, 2014. As mentioned in our introduction to this series of blog posts, we are heading into the world of e-reading for the next few days, considering what it might mean for us as digital writers and rhetors. Today, I want…