Category: Media and Pop Culture

Report from RCWP’s WIDE PATHS 2010

Feb 27, 2010

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Troy Hicks

in Choice and Inquiry, Collaboration, Composition, Copyright, Digital Storytelling, Digital Writing Workshop, English Education, Fair Use, Literacy, Media and Pop Culture, Multiliteracies, News and Notes, NWP, NWPM, Presentations, Professional Development, RCWP, Social Networking, Writing

This morning, I was fortunate enough to be invited “home” to present my session, “Creating Your Digital Writing Workshop” at Red Cedar Writing Project‘s WIDE PATHS II. Beyond the wonderful feeling of being “home” with about 30 colleagues from RCWP and sharing my book with them, I continue to be inspired by the amazing work…
Reflections on NWP and NCTE 2009

Nov 26, 2009

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Troy Hicks

in CCCC-IP, CEE, Copyright, Creative Commons, CRWP, Digital Is, Digital Writing Workshop, Media and Pop Culture, NCTE, NCTE 2009, News and Notes, Presentations, Professional Development, Reflections, Social Networking, Teaching, TM07, TPACK, Writing

As the holidays begin, another conference season comes to a close. For the past week, Sara and I have been in Philadelphia at the National Writing Project‘s “Digital Is…” pre-conference, the NWP Annual Meeting, and the National Council of Teachers of English Annual Convention. As it is each year, we enjoy spending time with colleagues…
Notes from “Erasing Copyright Confusion” at NCTE 2009

Nov 22, 2009

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Troy Hicks

in Copyright, Creative Commons, Internet Research, Literacy, Media and Pop Culture, Multiliteracies, NCTE, New Media, Notes from Other Presentations, Professional Development, Teaching, Writing

Notes from “Erasing Copyright Confusion” at NCTE 2009 Joyce Valenza, Renee Hobbs, Kristin Hokanson, and Michael RobbGrieco Center for Social Media Renee Hobbs, Temple — What is the purpose of copyright? Protect intellectual property Ownership, profit Authors’ right In fact, the purpose of copyright is to promote creativity, innovation, and the spread of knowledge Owners…
Notes from Danielle Nicole DeVoss’s Opening Keynote at NWP’s “Digital Is…”

Nov 18, 2009

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Troy Hicks

in Composition, Copyright, Creative Commons, Cyber Infrastructure, Digital Is, Digital Storytelling, Fair Use, Internet Research, Literacy, Media and Pop Culture, Multiliteracies, New Literacies, New Media, Notes from Other Presentations, NWP, Professional Development, Teaching, Writing

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…
Notes from Dan Priest’s “Rethinking Technology in the Multimodal Classroom”

Oct 30, 2009

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Troy Hicks

in Composition, English Education, MCTE, Media and Pop Culture, Notes from Other Presentations, Professional Development, Teaching, Writing

Dan Priest is a pre-service teacher from Western Michigan University and presented “Rethinking Technology in the Multimodal Classroom” at MCTE‘s fall conference. He suggested that his explorations of the internet and some of the tools available continue to inspire the ways in which he teaches with technology. Using his Wii remote/homemade Smartboard, he argues that…
Clearing Up Copyright Confusion Session

Jan 24, 2009

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Troy Hicks

in Copyright, Creative Commons, EduCon, Fair Use, Media and Pop Culture, New Media, Notes from Other Presentations

Copyright Confusion Session Kristin Hokanson with Renee Hobbs Exercising fair use demands an expanded conception of literacy that includes mass media, popular culture, and communication skills Copyright confusion — the end has arrived with the Code of Best Practices for Fair Use Overview video on fair use Purpose of copyright: to promote creativity, innovation, and…
Visual Literacy Tool – PictLits

Oct 24, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Digital Photography, Media and Pop Culture, Multiliteracies, New Literacies, New Media, News and Notes, Teaching

Recently, I was contacted by Carrie Lightner from PicLits.com. She said: I came across your blog and I thought you might be interested in our new web site, www.PicLits.com. It is a fun and new site that can be a great online teaching tool for educators. It helps get students interested in writing and serves…
Smile Teacher, You’re on YouTube!

Oct 12, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Media and Pop Culture, New Media, News and Notes, RCWP, Teaching

An RCWP colleague and friend, Heather Lewis, posted this message to the RCWP listserv last week: http://www.nea.org/neatoday/0810/youtube.html I found this article interesting. Part of me is like: I shouldn’t do anything in my class I wouldn’t want broadcast. But then part of me is like: Hey, they’re taking things out of context and slanting the…
MakeBeliefsComix.com Online Educational Comics Launches WRITER PROMPTS to Help ESL, Literacy Students Write, Read and Tell Stories

Sep 30, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Comics, Graphic Novels, Literacy, Media and Pop Culture, New Literacies, New Media, News and Notes, Writing

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…
Kevin Gets Comical

Sep 22, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Comics, Media and Pop Culture, NWP

Congrats to my NWP colleague, Kevin Hodgson on the publication of his new comic, Boolean Squared! He uses Comic Life for the basic layout and then fills in the pictures himself. It will be interesting to see where he takes this, both in terms of using the technology to produce the comic as well as…