Category: Literacy
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Notes from Danielle Nicole DeVoss’s Opening Keynote at NWP’s “Digital Is…”
Danielle Nicole DeVoss asks us to think about what digital was then and is now… Digital is… Networked — we compose in networked spaces Collaborative — people are able to connect and create through these networks (LolCats) Multimodal — typography, kinetic type, digital stories Re-Mediated — taking a media object and recreating it so it…
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Looking for Feedback on the Idea of a Digital Writing Project
As we prepare to head to the NWP Annual Meeting and NCTE Convention in just about a week, I am also plugging away at our Chippewa River Writing Project Continued Funding Application. I have come to one of the most compelling parts of the report, at least for me… the point where we reflect on…
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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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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…
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CEE Podcast: Examining Writing in a Time of Change
The CEE Web Editing Team has been hard at work, and this is the first in what we hope will become a series of regular podcasts with leaders in English Education. Please add comments to the page and continue the conversation about teaching writing in the 21st century. Examining Writing in a Time of Change:…
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MakeBeliefsComix.com Online Educational Comics Launches WRITER PROMPTS to Help ESL, Literacy Students Write, Read and Tell Stories
A note from Bill Zimmerman at MakeBeliefsComix, a site I have written about before: MakeBeliefsComix.com has launched a new WRITER PROMPTS feature that regularly offers educators new ideas to spark students’ imaginations and encourage them to write more. The new writing tool is a direct result of the overwhelming positive user response to our free…
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Brief Review of Webb and Rozema’s “Literature and the Web”
Earlier this summer, Allen Webb and Robert Rozema published their text through Heinemann, Literature and the Web: Reading and Responding with New Technologies. I received a copy as a gift, and just got a chance to read it over Labor Day. Besides thanking the two of them for mentioning my blog in the book, I…
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Alan November’s Keynote: Putting Responsibility Back in Children’s Hands
Alan November, November Learning Notes taken from November’s talk at the St. Clair RESA Symposium on 21st Century Learning August 13, 2008 Port Huron High School Marco Torres and his students’ video Invite students to step up and be teachers themselves My talk is not about technology — it is about new roles for the…
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Literacy alive and well in computer age – Perspectives – Opinion – Technology
From the Google Reader…. It makes no sense complaining about the decline of the printed word. As it becomes just another medium, we are moving to a kind of multimedia literacy, where capability with print becomes no more important, or useful, than capability with image. This is not necessarily a bad thing. There is no…