Category: Collaboration
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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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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…
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Hosting #engchat on 1/12/15
As more and more students bring mobile devices to school, we have more opportunities (and challenges) to teach reading and writing, speaking and listening. For next week’s #engchat conversation (1/12/15 at 7:00 PM EST), join co-authors Jeremy Hyler (@Jeremybballer) and Troy Hicks (@hicsktro) as they share some strategies from their book, Create, Compose, Connect! Reading,…
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More Thoughts on the Digital Reading/Writing Workshop
Earlier this month, Kristin Ziemke and I co-authored a blog post in response to Nancie Atwell’s blog post about the role of technology in her classroom. In short, the response to our response has been, well, overwhelming and positive. As so many of us in the world of English language arts prepare to head to DC this week…
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How I Lead (Professional Development)
Writing about myself is always a challenge (evidenced by the fact that I instinctively wrote “oneself” at the beginning of this sentence, then went back to revise it). Here on my blog — as well as in my books and articles, and throughout the many workshops and presentations that I lead — I constantly reference the work of others,…