Category: New Media
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Reflections on Project WRITE’s Summer Institute
Today marked the end of our Project WRITE summer institute, and there were both smiles and tears to be found amongst the many of us who shared our writing this morning and our professional learning this afternoon. My partner, project leader Liz Webb, structured an amazing week, given all that we had to do from…
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Naming and Knowledge-Making
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This recent article from eSchool News caught my attention and gave me pause to think about the course I am designing for the fall, ENG 460. Top News – Google unveils online reference tool For better or worse, Wikipedia–the online reference site that lets anyone add to its ever-growing body of knowledge–has changed the nature…
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CMU Podcast Interview on Technology Literacy
Earlier this month, one of my students, Lynette Seitz, and I were interviewed by Heather Smith, CMU’s Assistant Director of Media Relations about technology literacy and our work in ENG 315 this semester. I appreciate her invitation to record this podcast and it was wonderful to have Lynette’s voice in there, too, as a pre-service…
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Brown Bag Presentation: Multiliteracies in Composition
Last Friday, I was invited to lead a “brown bag” session for my English department’s composition program. Titled “Multiliteracies in Composition,” we focused our pre-reading on an article about a second-year college composition course developed at Michigan Tech called “Revisions.” Details can be found in the following article: Lynch, Dennis A., and Anne Frances Wysocki.…
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News from Teachers College: EdTV
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…
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Open Access to MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning
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…
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Notes from Kathy Yancey’s Keynote: 21st Century Literacies
Today, Kathy Yancey gave the keynote and the MCTE 2007 Fall Conference in Lansing, MI. Here are notes from the session. Yancey began by asking us to think about what literacy is and a five minute discussion among the audience began the session. An image of tectonic plates from the public domain with the idea…
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“YouTube Studies” vs. “College Credit for Watching YouTube”
A media professor has begun teaching a class on YouTube. Not so unusual that this would happen, given the fact that YouTube has been around for awhile now. In fact, it is kind of cool that it is finally happening. What I have found more interesting is that as I have been catching up on…
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Digital Writing Wiki
Of the many great things happening at the CEE Summit, I have had many opportunities to talk to other English Educators and find out about their online lives. As we prepare for the second panel discussion to start, I am sitting with Carl Young, editor of the CITE Journal and blogger of the SITE blog…