Category: Online Reading
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Teaching and Learning (Digital) Literacy in Higher Education
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Peer Review in Public
This afternoon, partially as a way to procrastinate from my own writing and partially because I was genuinely interested in the invitation, I participated in an “open review” of Remi Kalir and Antero Garcia‘s forthcoming manuscript, Annotation. Their open review process will continue through August 23, 2019, so jump in! They request that commentary adhere…
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Reading the Organizational Newsletter
As noted in the first post in this series, I’m trying to unpack some of my daily digital reading habits. In addition to the (semi) automated daily newsletter that comes from social media updates, there are also a regular stream (sometimes a flood) of newsletters that come from various groups. I generally categorize and read…
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Reading (and Writing) the Daily Newsletter
With the magic of RSS and automated workflows, the daily newsletter has become a tool for many businesses, organizations, and individuals to update their followers. There are countless numbers of these newsletters, and just as many opinions about whether or not they are effective. For the moment, I’ll leave those debates to others and say…
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A Snapshot of My Daily Digital Reading Habits
In order to rethink my relationship with ed tech, I need to start by thinking about what my current relationship entails. My goal is to blog for about 30 minutes a day, so this creative constraint/daily deadline will keep me focused. For this week, I want to focus on how I read about educational technology…
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Prepping for KQED Summer Bootcamp on “Developing and Assessing Digital Writers”
This week, KQED’s Bootcamp on “Developing & Assessing Digital Writers” kicks off, with the overarching idea that [b]logging can help develop your students’ digital writing by combining traditional writing (text) with a digital platform (sharing online), along with the opportunity to incorporate other forms of media-making. My role for the bootcamp will be to provide…
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Creating MINDFUL Readers and Writers
Based on the book that I wrote with Kristen Hawley Turner, Argument in the Real World, one of the tools/strategies that I have been sharing in workshops this past year is the “MINDFUL” heuristic for readers and writers as they engage in academic arguments with, through, and about social media. When we were wrapping up…
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Marginal Syllabus Conversation – February 22, 2017 at 6:00 PM EST
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in Academic Life, Books, Collaboration, Connected Learning, Digital Reading, Educational Research, Hybrid Learning, Internet Research, Mobile Learning, New Literacies, News and Notes, NWP, Online Learning, Online Reading, Open Content, Professional Development, Reflections, Research Writing Rewired, Teaching, TPACK, WritingTomorrow, Wednesday, February 22, 2017 at 6:00 PM EST, join my colleague and co-author, Dawn Reed, and me as we participate in an “Annotation Flash Mob” on the preface for our book, Research Writing Rewired. We’ve been invited to participate in this opportunity through Dawn’s collaborations with the Marginal Syllabus Project. The Marginal Syllabus team is…
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Conversation about Connected Reading on LitBit Podcast
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in Annotation, Assessment, Best Practice, Books, Collaboration, Connected Learning, Connected Reading, Curation, Digital Reading, English Education, Hybrid Learning, Interviews, Mobile Learning, NCTE, New Literacies, News and Notes, Online Learning, Online Reading, Podcast, Professional Development, Research Writing Rewired, TeachingMany thanks to Brooke Cunningham, creator of the LitBit podcast and a doctoral student in the University of Tennessee PhD in young adult literature program, for inviting Kristen Turner and me to share our thoughts on Connected Reading with her listeners. Please listen to and share the episode!
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Hosting #engchat Next Week
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in Assessment, Best Practice, Books, Connected Learning, Connected Reading, Digital Reading, Educational Research, English Education, Hybrid Learning, Internet Research, Literacy, Mobile Learning, Multiliteracies, New Literacies, New Media, News and Notes, Online Learning, Online Reading, Professional Development, Reading in a Digital Age, Reflections, Teaching, WritingThis next Monday, Kristen Turner and I host #engchat for a conversation on Connected Reading. Here’s the announcement: Recently, a friend of Kristen’s on Facebook posted a GIF that showed the evolution of a desk. In 1980 the desk was covered with items: books, newspapers, magazines; a fax, phone, stapler and tape dispenser; a rolodex,…