Category: Multiliteracies
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Thinking about Critical Media Literacy
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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Reflection on the “New Literacies” Workshops
Wow. So, many things to think about based on Friday’s workshops, but first and foremost a hearty thanks to the 15 teachers who led these “new literacies” workshops: Julie Achterberg Pen Campbell Jennifer Conrad Richard Cook Elizabeth Cyr Joseph Haughey Joyce Hunter Aram Kabodian Angie Montpas Mitchell Nobis Dawn Reed Luke Rodesiler Robert Rozema Renee…
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Preparing for Our “New Literacies” Workshops
Tomorrow, after many months of planning and a few hectic days this week getting everything in order, we will have 15 teachers presenting to 50 of their peers in the RCWP-sponsored New Media & New Literacies = New Expectations & New Opportunities Workshops. Here is a list of the sessions: Blogging and Podcasting Digital Storytelling…
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Notes on “Identity Interface: Rhetorical Analysis, Graphic Design, and Comics”
Notes from another CCCC session that I found engaging. In this session, the presenter spent a good deal of time thinking about design from the standpoint of a writing teacher, and I found her angle on it informative. In particular, I found her categories of balance, unity, gestalt, and hierarchy a more nuanced way of…
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Reposting: On a “feedâ€ing frenzy
In August of 2005, I started blogging on the domain that Steve and I bought to host our now defunct podcast. In October, I posted my thoughts on M.T. Anderson’s book, feed. Soon after, I loaned it to Davin, (who I mention in the post below) and just yesterday he stopped by for a surprise…
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Notes on “Public and Portable Pedagogy: iTunes University and Networked Pedagogies”
Here are some notes from another session at CCCC that focused on the affordances and constraints of using iTunes U to distribute course content. Given the project that I am working on with Dawn right now and her students’ blogging and podcasting, this was a timely session. In particular, I appreciated Reid’s focus on issues…
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Nobis and Cook: Connecting Comics and Essays
Nobis Nobis and Cook: Connecting Comics and Essays Mitch Nobis and Rick Cook are teacher consultants from Red Cedar Writing Project, and presented a number of ways that they connect graphic novels and expository writing in their writing classes. They will also be presenting a similar session at Bright Ideas. Thinking about what comics are…
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Telling the Technology Story in K-12 Schools
The past week or so has been crazy. Yes, busy crazy for me personally, for sure. But, I am talking about another kind of craziness. I am talking about the number of teachers that I have talked to who have been fighting filters, trying to get equipment to work, and generally trying to make meaningful…
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Link to "Multiliteracies Meet Methods” Article
The article that Jeff and I wrote for English Education got a mention in a recent NCTE INBOX: Teacher educators can find useful strategies in the English Education article “Multiliteracies Meet Methods: The Case for Digital Writing in English Education” (TE). The article provides a rationale for teaching digital writing and explores the rhetorical, interactive,…
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Link to “Multiliteracies Meet Methods” Article
The article that Jeff and I wrote for English Education got a mention in a recent NCTE INBOX: Teacher educators can find useful strategies in the English Education article “Multiliteracies Meet Methods: The Case for Digital Writing in English Education” (TE). The article provides a rationale for teaching digital writing and explores the rhetorical, interactive,…