Digital Writing, Digital Teaching

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  • Re: Episode 11 on its way!

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    Troy Hicks
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    Hi Chris, I just wanted to touch base with you about your Teach with Tech podcast. I have been listening for a few months and I appreciate how you discuss new technologies and contextualize them in K-12 and higher ed applications. Just a quick comment on your Opera segment from last month. I have been…

  • Re: Some of My Input

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    Bud, I, too, have been listening to GEEK!ED!, and found the discussion with David Warlick engaging. Sometimes they seem right on target, sometimes they veer, but it is generally a good show. I appreciate their humor, but when they really start to laugh, it can hurt the eardrums! Abject Learning is a blog by Brian…

  • Reflecting on the Summer’s Work

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    Troy Hicks
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    Finally, I am catching up on some blog reading/writing. This past summer was super busy for me at RCWP, as we did many, many workshops — averaging about one a day over the entire summer — all focused on new literacies and new technologies. Julie had some kind words to say about one of the…

  • Back to School Supplies, Including Jump Drives? Awesome!

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    Dear Mrs. Klotz, I think that it is great that you are asking your students to have a jump drive as part of their school supplies. Given the work that we did this summer, I think that this is an incredibly practical idea and I look forward to seeing how this works out for you…

  • Technology and Change

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    Troy Hicks
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    Karen, I think that you are right on the money here. Change, in any context is difficult. What I find most interesting about technology relates to the things that we choose to change and the things that we don’t necessarily have a choice over. For instance, with Spurl and Furl, I have complete control over…

  • Thoughts on Spurl

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    Joe, I agree with you about Spurl – I think that it is possibly the most useful of the social bookmarking sites, although I must admit that I am still using Furl primarily because it is what I started with way back when. I am interested in seeing how you embed the bookmarks in your…

  • Using Writely for Interactive Course Documents

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    Karen, I think that your idea to integrate Writely documents into your course handouts is great. I am trying to think about other ways to use Writely (in addition to everything that we came up with at TM06) for a workshop next week and I will be sure to reference your idea here. Thanks, Troy

  • Thinking about productive uses of MySpace

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    Hi Rob, Sorry that it’s been awhile since I visited your blog. I was looking for some CSS code and spent a few minutes catching up on reading, too. So, what is your take on the MySpace debate? Is there room to still use MySpace in schools in a productive, ethical way? What are your…

  • Re: EduFlickr posts… they’re like buses!

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    Thanks, David, for referencing my post about students using Flickr as a part of a digital photography/writing lesson. Your post has links to tons of other great ideas that I hope to explore. Troy