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NOVA Videos Available for Free Use

Aug 25, 2008

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in Media and Pop Culture, New Media, News and Notes, Open Content

Today, I got an email from Karinna from WGBH in Boston — this sounds like an incredible resource! Just in time for the new school year, the critically-acclaimed season of NOVA scienceNOW is now available for free download directly from its Web site. Wrapping up its third season this summer, this magazine-style science series from…

Dr. Yong Zhao – Keynote Highlights

Aug 13, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Cyber Infrastructure, Educational Research, Gaming, Media and Pop Culture, Notes from Other Presentations, Online Identity, Professional Development, Second Life, Social Networking, Teaching

Highlights from the keynote address at the St. Clair RESA Symposium on 21st Century Learning August 13, 2008 Port Huron High School Yong Zhao, MSU Mistakes with technology and schools Solution seeking problems — we put technology in school, but the problems were not there or evident Trusting the wrong agent — Whose machine is…

April Showers Bring Me Back from the Blogging Drought

Apr 9, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Bright Ideas 2008, ENG 315, English Education, Internet Research, Media and Pop Culture, Presentations, Social Networking

March was like a lion for me… beginning, middle, and end. I wish there was a better excuse, but that’s the long and short of it. Conferences, prepping my portfolio for my annual review, teaching, grading, etc. OK, enough of that. My purpose tonight is to just capture some thinking on a presentation that Rob…

Randy Bomer’s Keynote about New Literacies

Mar 15, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Composition, Educational Research, Media and Pop Culture, Multiliteracies, New Literacies, Notes from Other Presentations

Notes from Randy Bomer‘s keynote at MRA 2008: “Writing Transformations: How New Literacies and New Times Invite Us to Rethink Composition” Literacy is changing, literacy as design Obstacles: accountability measures and deficit thinking If we are constantly trying to fill in gaps, we are not moving into the future. Looking at education from a deficit…

Literacy alive and well in computer age – Perspectives – Opinion – Technology

Feb 6, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Assessment, English Education, Literacy, Media and Pop Culture, Multiliteracies, News and Notes, Reflections, Writing

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…

Notes and Reaction from “Growing Up Online”

Jan 23, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in IM, Media and Pop Culture, News and Notes, Online Identity, Social Networking

Here are some notes and reactions to the “Growing Up Online” special as it goes… Some initial introductions, showing students as deceptive about online activity and generally showing parents as luddites Scenes from schools, teachers claiming that they need to be “entertainers” and that it is difficult for students to focus and can not be…

News from Teachers College: EdTV

Jan 19, 2008

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Troy Hicks

in Educational Research, Media and Pop Culture, New Media, News and Notes

This promises to be an interesting new twist on the scholarship of teaching. I’ll be watching: TCRecord: Article Children and Puppets and Rats, Oh My TCR Welcomes After Ed TV by Gary Natriello ? January 18, 2008 A new short-form web video channel joins the TCR home page For 2008 the Teachers College Record is…

Open Access to MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning

Dec 13, 2007

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Troy Hicks

in Books, Collaboration, Gaming, Literacy, Media and Pop Culture, Multiliteracies, New Media, News and Notes, Online Identity, Open Content

An email from Leigh alerted me to this great set of resources. Check them out: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning – Series – The MIT Press The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning examines the effect of digital media tools…

Pondering the Curricular Value of Digital Writing

Jul 31, 2007

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Troy Hicks

in Assessment, Collaboration, Composition, Digital Storytelling, Educational Research, Media and Pop Culture, NWP, Professional Development, RCWP, Reflections

A few weeks ago in Chico, I was fortunate enough to meet John Bishop from the other RCWP, Red Clay Writing Project located near Atlanta, and we had a splashing good time there! Since then, I have been following his blog and I am particularly interested in the recent post that he created about exploring…

Thinking about Critical Media Literacy

Apr 23, 2007

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Troy Hicks

in Media and Pop Culture, Multiliteracies, Professional Development, Reflections

Last week, I had the opportunity to talk with Susi Elkins, a colleague at MSU that I originally met when I visited her class’s digital portfolio presentation a few summers ago. She plans to develop a critical media literacy professional development session for local teachers, and we talked at length about what might happen in…

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