Category: English Education
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Make Belief Comics
Recently, I was alerted to a new comic-making tool: Make Belief Comix. Here is a sample of what you can do: And here is a more thorough explanation from the creator of the site, Bill Zimmerman, who emailed me the following: Dear reader, I want to share with you news of my newest educational project…
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Thinking about Multimodal Assessment
Yesterday, our RCWP Project WRITE team had the good fortune of being able to work with NWP’s Director of Research and Evaluation, Paul LeMahieu, on an analytic writing continuum workshop. In his talk, which was similar to the session that I attended last summer, he talked about how the continuum has been developed, the pedagogical…
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Notes from “Educational Blogging: What, Where, Why and How”
Today, I had the chance to attend an educational technology session at MSU featuring Nicole Ellison, Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies & Media, MSU College of Communication Arts and Sciences, and Leigh Graves Wolf, Learning Technology and Culture Programs, MSU College of Education. Their topic is “Educational Blogging: What, Where, Why and How.” Here are…
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Back to School (2.0)
Things have been absolutely crazy the past two weeks, but that has been good for me especially as I get back in the swing of teaching. As I begin the semester, there are a few things that I’ve been thinking about that I want to capture here and come back to think about more later.…
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Preparing for Writing Methods, K-8
The month of August has brought a number of transitions, not the least of which is that I begin teaching at CMU next week. There are two courses that I will be doing this fall; one is a writing methods course for K-8 pre-service teachers and the other an intermediate composition course. More on composition…
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Response to “Writing Next” Report
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Monday, we will be discussing the Writing Next Report, issued by the Alliance for Excellent Education. Here are my thoughts on the prompt, “How has reading the Writing Next Report encouraged you to rethink aspects of your teaching practice?” The Writing Next Report, written by Steve Graham and Dolores Perin, issued earlier this year by…
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Teaching Writing in the 21st Century
Tonight, I am blogging from Baltimore, where I am attending an NWP working meeting, “Teaching Writing in the 21st Century.” I feel very fortunate to be here with about 60 colleagues and friends of the National Writing Project and the Bread Loaf School of English. There are many, many wonderful people here — too many…
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Book Review: Teachers’ Writing Groups
The second book that we are using in our summer institute is both practical and promotional. Teachers’ Writing Groups: Collaborative Inquiry and Reflection for Professional Growth (Kennesaw University Press, 2006) describes multiple configurations of writing group — important to our summer invitational — and is co-edited by Kathy Yancey, the keynote at MCTE’s fall conference.…
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CEE Summit, Day 2 Panel: Vision for CEE in….5 Years?
Panel: Vision for CEE in….5 Years? This panel is a prelude to a brainstorming/visioning activity that we are going to be involved in next. Don Zancanella, University of New Mexico In five years, CEE should and will be further along in the process of using technology to support English Educators; right now our work is…